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As' salaam Alaykem :) Rahimthe evolution welcomes you :) July 04 Free Jailed Falsely :)Free Jailed Falsely :)
Help Mr. Leonard Peltier get the parole he, and humanity, truly deserves, advocate and evoke :) Leonard has carried a constant burden for all of humanity, for over 34 years straight, graciously, courageously, and with great generosity, and, besides thanking him, we have a responsibility to act, not just to right the wrongs of this world, to act to lessen Leonard's, and those like Leonard's, burdens; they've humbly born for us all. Thanx, again :) Luckily, "we, the people...", can still be the voice for those unheard; let us do what we can do to support Leonard's parole. Thanx, again. Ciao. :) reality
This Action, on Change.org, the url :) Free Jailed Falsely :)
Very latest from Friends Digest :)
Peltier Medical Alert :)
June 26th Statement from Leonard Peltier :)
34th Anniversary Events :)
LP-DOC: Acts: Update on the Lewisburg Vigil, 7-28-09; etc.. :)
LP-DOC: Acts: Health Alert: Peltier Needs Medical Assist; etc.. :)
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Focus Parole, Friends Digest Vol. 3, No. 4 ;)
Previous Actions, on Change.org, the url :)
free falsely jailed :)
Act to Protect Leonard Peltier, severely beaten, institutionally abused, etc.. :)
Other Actions for Leonard on Change.org :)
Leonard Peltier Petition :)
Leonard Peltier Petition :)
June 27 Help stop the scourge of HIV :)Help stop the scourge of HIV :)
This Action, on Change.org, the url :) Scourge of HIV :)
Action Alert: Help Protect the Lives of Americans with HIV/AIDS :)
Dear Friends,
Health care reform is moving quickly through Congress, and while reform is important, provisions are at risk that would protect people living with HIV/AIDS as well as those most vulnerable to contracting the virus. Opponents are citing high costs, but 50% of people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. do not have regular health care and their lives could be at stake.
Please help advocate in support of key components of the legislation that protect people living with HIV and AIDS.
Here’s how you can help:
Call both your U.S. Senators in their Washington, D.C. office. Ask to speak to the staff person who handles HIV and health care issues. You might get their voicemail or you might speak to them in person. Either way, tell them:
"My name is ____________ and I live in (city/state). I am very concerned that
health care reform will not meet the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS. I ask that
any final health care legislation eliminate the disability requirement for Medicaid and
ensure that all low-income people, including childless adults, have early access to care.
I ask that it also include language from the Early Treatment for HIV Act which expands
access to Medicaid for people living with HIV. Finally, I ask that it have a public plan
option to best ensure affordable access to comprehensive care for people with HIV.
All three provisions are crucial to ensure that people with HIV/AIDS have early access
to the care and treatment that can keep them healthy and productive. I urge Senator
______________ to do everything in his/her power to fight for these important
provisions."
You can reach your Senators by calling the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. If you don't know who your Senators are, go to www.congress.org and enter your zip code in the upper right corner. Phone calls are particularly effective right now because Congress is moving quickly. However, if you prefer to send an email, go to your Senator's website (linked from www.senate.gov). You will find instructions on sending emails to that office. Cut and paste the phone message, make sure your name and the Senator's name are included and add a short personal note explaining why this issue is important to you.
The move to reform health care in the United States must ensure that everyone living with HIV benefits from early and reliable access to lifesaving care and treatment. Coordinated action by our entire community is needed to make sure Congress knows how important these three core provisions are for all of us.
Thanks for taking action!
ANSA Team
P.S. Please check out our new website at
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2999 Overland Avenue, Suite 102 Los Angeles, California 90064 United States phone 310.204.1748 fax 310.204.4277
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ACCION eNews: Microfinance- Bearing Fruit in Bolivia :)ACCION eNews: Microfinance- Bearing Fruit in Bolivia :)
This Action, on Change.org, the url :) Roots of Inequality :)
June 2009 :)
New Book! Microfinance for Bankers and Investors
In her new book, Elisabeth Rhyne, managing director of the Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International, explains how providing financial services to the poor is a unique business opportunity that is both socially AND financially responsible. Packed with instructive case studies, Microfinance for Bankers and Investors: Understanding the Opportunities and Challenges of the Market at the Bottom of the Pyramid offers readers a road map for where and how to successfully invest in greater financial inclusion. Purchase your copy on Amazon.com today! Meeting the Needs of Mexican Microentrepreneurs
ACCION has partnered with a young and innovative microfinance institution (MFI) in Mexico to reach more microentrepreneurs at the base of the economic pyramid. ACCION and enConfianza signed a long-term contract earlier this month in which ACCION will advise the MFI on credit methodology, risk management, project and process management, and human resources and organizational development. Read more here. ACCION USA: Now Connecting Individual Lenders to U.S. Borrowers in Need
ACCION USA, a leader and innovator in U.S. microfinance since 1991, has teamed up with Kiva.org to connect U.S. entrepreneurs seeking small business loans with individual lenders, through Kiva’s person-to-person online lending platform. Check out ACCION USA’s blog for more details on this exciting new partnership. Exposing the Roots of Inequality – the Human Opportunity Index
The World Bank’s recently published “Human Opportunity Index” (HOI) offers a unique framework for examining the root causes of inequality. Focusing specifically on children and opportunity, the HOI identifies those circumstances outside a child’s control – e.g., race, parents’ level of education, access to electricity or clean water – that can determine a child’s economic future. Learn more about the HOI and how microfinance can improve a child’s economic outlook here. Investments in Microfinance: Surviving the Liquidity Crisis and Ensuring Sustainable Growth. London, July 7–9, 2009. Elisabeth Rhyne, managing director, Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International, speaker.
4th African Microfinance Conference. Ouagadougou, Burkino Faso, July 7–10, 2009. Brian Kuwik, vice president and program manager, Africa, ACCION International, speaker.
The Investment Opportunity for Pensions, Endowments, Foundations & Social Investors Summit. Washington, D.C., July 13–14, 2009. Monica Brand, principal director, Frontier Investments Group, ACCION International, speaker.
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Did you know... Donations totaling just $500 can help provide a loan to a vegetable oil vendor in Nigeria, to enable her to jump-start her microenterprise selling vegetable oil and increase her income. Your gift helps put women like Alhaja Falolu Afusat (pictured above) on the path to a brighter future. Give today!
Microfinance – Bearing Fruit in Bolivia Selling goods at the Abastos Market in Santa Cruz, Bolivia is a highly competitive endeavor and not for the faint of heart. With just one look at sisters Eva, Abelina and Jesusa Chiri – perched atop a heap of pineapples in the back of a forty foot rig – it’s clear that they mean business.
Read the full story...
ACCION International is a private, nonprofit organization with the mission of giving people the financial tools they need – microloans, business training and other financial services – to work their way out of poverty. A world pioneer in microfinance, ACCION issued its first microloan in 1973 in Brazil . Today, ACCION’s partner microfinance institutions serve more than 3.7 million poor entrepreneurs per year in 23 countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the United States . Health care reform in trouble :)Health care reform in trouble :)
Please, Health care reform in trouble, do whatever you can, advocate, et al :) This Action, on Change.org, the url :) Healthcare trouble :)
Health care reform is in trouble in the Senate :)
Conservatives in Congress, including some Democrats, are trying to kill Obama's public health insurance option not by opposing it outright, but by pushing weak half-measures and calling them "public plans."1 The latest is a proposal for small, regional "co-ops" that would have no chance of competing against insurance companies to bring costs down.2
If we act immediately, we have a good shot at defeating ploys like the "co-op." The key is to make it clear that we support a strong public health insurance option and lay out exactly what that means.
Click below and we'll fax a flier in your name (for free!) to Sens. Conrad and Dorgan that sets the bar for a strong public health insurance option. Faxes come directly into the office, so staffers are guaranteed to see them. And if enough of us send faxes, staffers will pass the flier on to their senator.
It's up to us to remind our senators that an overwhelming majority of Americans—83%—supports a public health insurance option,3 and that weak half-measures like the "co-op" plan are no substitute for real reform.
The flier says: "A strong public health insurance option must be part of health care reform this year," and outlines key criteria that a plan must be based upon:
Available to all of us: A strong public health insurance option should be available to anyone who chooses to participate. If you like your current plan, you can keep it; if you want to participate in the public health insurance plan, you can choose that. A national plan with real bargaining clout: In order to truly control costs and compete with private health insurance plans, a strong public health insurance option must be available nationwide. Ready on day one: Every day we wait on real reform, health care costs continue to rise. A strong public health insurance option with a broad network of providers right out of the gate is key to building a competitive program that will help control costs. A truly public plan: To ensure it's held to the highest standards of accountability, a public health insurance option must be truly publicly run—accountable and transparent to Congress and to voters.
If thousands of us send faxes to Senate offices this week, we can make sure that message is heard loud and clear. Can you fax Sens. Conrad and Dorgan today? Click below and we'll send one for you:
Thanks for all that you do.
–Patrick S., Kat, Justin, Wes, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "A Public Health Plan," The New York Times, June 21, 2009.
2. "A co-op for the public option? Let's talk principles," The Now! Blog, June 12, 2009.
3. "New Poll Shows Tremendous Support for Public Health Care Option," Blog for Our Future, June 15, 2009
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Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Congress to Vote This Week on School of the Americas TransparencyCongress to Vote This Week on School of the Americas Transparency
End human trafficking, torture, child soldiers by ending mercenary treatment of humanity; through the spread of torture :) This Action, on Change.org, the url :) Stop Torture :)
[USLEAP has received this important action alert from the School of the Americas Watch. The School of the Americas, which continues to function in Fort Benning, GA as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Coooperation, has trained thousands of Latin American soldiers in counter insurgency measures. Many of those trained have gone on to engage in egregious human rights abuses against civilians, including Latin American trade unionists. We urge you to respond to this request for action. For more information, visit www.soaw.org]
Click here to send an email and fax to your Representative.
Start calling Congress now!
SOA Watch has received confirmation that Congress will vote on an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act that would require that the School of the Americas/WHINSEC to release the names, ranks, country of origin, courses and dates attended of students and instructors at the institute.
The amendment will be offered by Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA), Representative Joe Sestak (D-PA), Representative Sanford Bishop (D-GA) and Representative John Lewis (D-GA) and we expect the vote to happen on Wednesday, June 24.
For the past few years, despite the WHINSEC PR machine proclaiming an open and transparent school, the WHINSEC has been unwilling to provide information about the students and instructors. The Pentagon secrecy took effect after research revealed that the SOA/ WHINSEC continues to train known human rights abusers, and that instructors have been involved in numerous crimes. Freedom of Information Act requests since FY 2005 have all been denied, proof of WHINSEC's unwillingness to submit to oversight from the public whose tax-payer dollars help fund the school.
Access to information regarding SOA/ WHINSEC graduates of previous years has been a valuable asset to human rights organizations who have been able to identify Latin American military officers and police that have committed human rights abuses or engaged in criminal activity in their home countries after attending the school as instructors or students.
SOA Watch supports the release of this important information at all U.S. military training facilities in the spirit of openness, transparency, and the public's "right to know." We see gaining access to the names of SOA/ WHINSEC graduates and instructors as a crucial step towards closing the SOA/ WHINSEC for good.
We expect a close vote and it is crucial for the success of this amendment that you contact your Representative TODAY and TOMORROW!
SEND AN EMAIL AND FAX TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE NOW!
Be sure to click the "Send a Fax" box to have the fax sent.
CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE!!! -- TUESDAY, June 23 AND WEDNESDAY, June 24
Call the Congressional Switchboard at 202-224-3121 or toll free at 1-800-473-6711
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