#Ukraine : Resources to help animals and people in Ukraine 🇺🇦

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From: NYC Second Chance Rescue <scr@nycsecondchancerescue.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 7, 2022, 3:00 PM
Subject: Resources to help animals and people in Ukraine. 🇺🇦
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Organizations helping in Ukraine.

Hello, We want to take a brief reprieve from our regular updates to share some resources of shelters, rescues, and humanitarian organizations that are working hard to protect our friends in Ukraine as this crisis continues to escalate. As a nonprofit animal rescue, our hearts weep when we see what is happening to parallel organizations in Ukraine. We know many of you see what we see – humans and animals in crisis – and want to help. If you'd like to donate to help the heroic efforts of these people who are facing danger while they protect their communities, two-legged and four-legged alike, please read below: Shelter Ugolyok: a nonprofit animal rescue and sanctuary in Ukraine focused on rescue and rehabilitation of animals. They are collecting donations to build a food supply to sustain the hundreds of animals in their care while prices skyrocket due to shortages. UAnimals: a Ukrainian animal rights organization fighting to rescue animals that have fallen victim in the midst of the ongoing war. They are collecting funds to purchase food to help sustain shelters in need. Happy Paw: a nonprofit organization that helps more than 60 shelters throughout the territory of Ukraine. They are checking in with shelter conditions and building a list of each shelter's urgent needs. World Central Kitchen: an organization serving thousands of hot meals to Ukrainian families fleeing home as well as those who remain in the country  🇺🇦 Share Tweet Forward Stay Connected! Copyright © Second Chance Rescue NYC | All rights reserved. Mailing address: Second Chance Rescue P.O. Box 570701 Whitestone, NY 11357

Galactic: What emits more greenhouse gas than 100 countries combined?

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From: Michael Galant <info@winwithoutwar.org>
Date: Sat, Dec 18, 2021, 9:36 AM
Subject: What emits more greenhouse gas than 100 countries combined?
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Let's pile on pressure to stop Congress from fueling the climate crisis with more weapons and war.

The United States faced simultaneous wildfires, snow squalls, dust storms, and deadly tornadoes during just *one day* this week.

How did the Senate respond? By overwhelmingly approving a whopping $778 BILLION for weapons and war — the LARGEST peacetime war budget in history.

Weapons and war require massive amounts of fossil fuel — and not only is the Pentagon the world's single biggest institutional consumer of petroleum, it's also a HUGE source of greenhouse gas, emitting more than 100 countries combined. 

Continuing massive payouts to fund the Pentagon's mega-polluting pet projects as multiple weather disasters rock our communities? The disconnect is as infuriating as it is mind-boggling. 

But here's the thing: while this bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, is critical to set policy, it doesn't actually include "one penny" for the Pentagon. That happens through the appropriations process. And those negotiations are heating up NOW.

We've got just a few critical weeks to pull out all the stops to keep the pressure on Congress to push them away from fueling the climate crisis with more weapons and war — because believe us, they'll be hearing from ALL the special interest lobbyists on the other side. 

We're closing 2021 facing a steep end-of-year fundraising gap of $52,457. Less than 1% of those reading will give, but if everyone who can gives now, we could close this gap in seconds. Any amount will help fuel our work to cut the bloated Pentagon budget — can you donate $15 today?

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U.S. agencies have already issued a collective warning that climate change is coming for us all.

This week, new reports confirmed temperatures in the Arctic have reached as high as 100.4 Fahrenheit. 

But as our communities struggle through a year of wildfires, freezes, tornadoes, heat waves, and hurricanes, the Senate is STILL mired in a months-long debate over the Build Back Better plan — which would help fund energy and climate action.

What are they prioritizing? Here's just a peek and what they signed off on this week:

• 13 new warships (five more than the Navy wanted)
• 17 F-15E Strike Eagle jets (five more than the Air Force wanted) 
• 12 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighters (that the Navy didn't include in its budget). 

(That's $25 BILLION on weapons the Pentagon didn't even ask for.)

These numbers expose the real reason we're in a nonsensical position of having one of the largest Pentagon budget proposals in history at the same time as we're ending wars like the one in Afghanistan and face existential threats like pandemics and climate change. 

It comes down to the defense lobbyists. 

Luckily, we've got game at defeating them. Last year, we helped block outrageous proposals to add additional funding for the Pentagon to the COVID stimulus bill, and this year we've blocked attempts to sneak these funds into the infrastructure bills too. 

Now, we're bringing this momentum to the next phase in our fight to stop a rubber-stamp of one of the biggest Pentagon budgets in history — and we need your help.

As we approach December 31st, we're just 35% away from meeting our end-of-year fundraising goal. Can you help us close this gap by rushing a $15 donation to help us double-down our work at this crucial stage of our fight to cut the massively bloated Pentagon budget? Together, we'll help get those funds to desperately underfunded priorities.

It's time we truly reconciled with what all this war spending costs us, got our priorities back in order, and put the PEOPLE first — and Win Without War is at the forefront of this fight. Please support our work now.

Thank you for working for peace,

Michael, Amy, Faith, and the Win Without War team

P.S. Want to understand more about the ins and outs of the budgeting process and what's at stake? Check out our new resource: 'Tis the Season: People Over Pentagon Activist Guide!

 

 

 

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Join or start a polar bear uprising in your area

From: Center for Biological Diversity <bioactivist@biologicaldiversity.org>

Date: Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:58 AM

Subject: April 28: Join a Polar Bear Uprising, Save the Arctic

You're Invited to Join a Polar Bear Uprising – Saturday, April 28 Dear Liz, Shell's drill ships are on their way to the Arctic Ocean right now to begin the most aggressive offshore Arctic-drilling program in history, endangering polar bears and their habitat -- unless President Barack Obama decides to stop them in the next few weeks. The clock's ticking, and if we want to get the president's attention -- before it's too late -- we have to get creative. Together with the Sierra Club and other allies, we're holding polar bear uprisings where crowds dressed in white with polar bear masks will dance, in unison, to bring massive public attention to the Arctic's plight. Across the country on Saturday, April 28 we'll set a world record for the most dancing polar bears and, united, we'll save the Arctic. Think of them as flash mobs with a purpose. Join or start a polar bear uprising in your area. It's fun and easy: We'll give you instructions, polar bear masks and all the help you need.  Please join the nationwide movement April 28 and sign up for a polar bear uprising -- and bring all your friends. Also, whether or not you can come to an event, sign our petition to protect the Arctic, then share it on Facebook and join a million voices against Arctic drilling. Donate now to support our work. For more information, please visit our Web page for Arctic oil development. Center for Biological Diversity P.O. Box 710 Tucson, AZ 85702 1-866-357-3349

Songbirds

 Urgent! Contact Secretary of State Clinton!

Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis

NRDC Natural Resources Defense Council

Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline! SAVE OUR SONGBIRDS! http://bit.ly/obtPbM

 

Visit NRDC page to see Boreal migration routes and hear bird calls

http://www.savebiogems.org/birds/