Draw the Line on the Keystone XL
This Saturday, September 21st, ?in over 200 places around the country, thousands will rally and march in the?largest day of action against the tar sands yet. This will be a call to??Draw the Line? on destructive extraction and pipeline 
projects like Keystone XL and Spectra that contribute to climate change, rising sea levels, and ongoing financial and social costs in our region! New York City artists will take the lead in dynamic street theater, puppetry, song and chant, and a special street art project conceived for this event by Radical Art Initiative that literally ?draws the line? and graphically illustrates expanding flood areas in Lower Manhattan. Be part of a symbolic human water surge?dress in blue; wear your ponchos and rainboots; help carry a giant symbolic pipeline, posters, banners and flags. Join 350NYC, Occupy the Pipeline, United for Action, System Change Not Climate Change, Credo and a large coalition of New York environmental groups on this national day of speaking out sponsored by?350.org. For more information visit, 350nyc.org. Wear blue!
Stop the Monsanto Protection Act
Congress could vote this week to extend the Monsanto Protection Act for another three months, unless we stop them! Please write to your Congressperson in the U.S. House of Representatives and ask them to vote NO on the Monsanto Protection Act. ?After you send the letter, please call your Congressperson. You can find the number?here, or use the general number: (202) 224-3121. ?The Monsanto Protection Act is a rider that prevents the federal courts from enforcing injunctions on genetically modified seeds even if those seeds have been deemed unsafe. Earlier this year, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) slipped the Monsanto Protection Act into the Continuing Resolution, a bill to fund the U.S. government through September 30.?Now, Congress is about to vote on a new Continuing Resolution (H.J.RES.59) in order to fund the government for another three months. And despite public outrage and hundreds of thousands of signatures on petitions, House Appropriations Committee Chair Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) has slipped the Monsanto Protection Act into the new bill.? Please write your U.S. Representative to urge them to vote NO on this week’s vote on H.J.RES.59 unless the Monsanto Protection Act is removed!Tell Your Representative to Support an Organic Farm Bill
House Members are circulating a “Dear Colleague” letter (a letter to fellow Representatives) that calls for Action on Organic Programs in any? Farm Bill 
negotiations moving forward.?? Ask Your Representative to sign on to this letter and support organic. Call 202-224-3121 today! Call your representative and ask them to sign on by contacting the appropriate Congressional leader on this letter. If your Representative is a Republican, ask them:? “Please sign on to the Organic Dear Colleague Letter by contacting Rep. Hanna’s staff:? Adam Hepburn” If your Representative is a Democrat, ask them: “Please sign on to the Organic Dear Colleague Letter by contacting Rep. DeFazio’s staff:? Megan Debates” Call the Capitol Switchboard at:? 202-224-3121 and they will connect you with your Representative’s office.
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