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Very happy to join Occupy Baltimore on MayDay.

Dear Friend,

For several days, activists in New Zealand occupied a Shell drill ship
and prevented it from leaving port, exposing Shell's efforts to move
their operations to one of the last pristine environments on the
planet -- the Arctic. The same thing happened a few weeks later in
Finland.

I've already joined these activists and sent a message to Shell
myself. You can do the same by clicking on the link below...

https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&i...

I've just asked Congress to punish Bush and Cheney before going after foreign nations' officials for crimes that our former president and vice president have confessed to. Will you join me? http://bit.ly/Imk9dp

Freshwater turtles are facing more and more devastating overharvest in the United States for sale to the pet industry and food and medicinal markets in Asia. Beautiful map turtles are already endangered, and unregulated international trade is rapidly destroying them and other native turtles.

Protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species would put limits on international trade and monitor their populations.

In response to a petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced that it may propose 17 species of U.S. freshwater turtles for CITES protection at the next meeting in Thailand. The agency has invited the public to comment on which species should be listed.

Please take action now to tell the Service to protect U.S. freshwater turtles from falling victim to an insatiable international market.

Take action by using this Web address: http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=10334

Friends,

We pushed them to the brink, but the House Republicans rammed through CISPA this afternoon, ahead of schedule. Let's make sure it dies in the Senate.

Please click here to email your Senators:

http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/cispa_passes/?referring_akid=1332.45919....

CISPA would give the government and corporations vast new powers to track and share data about Americans' Internet use.

But our hundreds of thousands of emails and tens of thousands of phone calls have had a real impact:

-Amendments were adopted that made CISPA (marginally) better.

-Earlier this month CISPA was supposed to sail through, but we helped foment opposition, and the vote was far closer than anybody could have imagined even a couple of weeks ago.

-Most Democrats held firm in opposition, and more than two dozen libertarian-leaning Republicans defied their leadership and voted no.

-Most importantly, President Obama has threatened to veto CISPA.

The Senate will consider cyber security legislation in the coming weeks. Let's turn up the heat right away: Tell the Senate to reject CISPA and any and all legislation that doesn't respect privacy and civil liberties.

Just click here:

http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/cispa_passes/?referring_akid=1332.45919....

Thanks!