Long Island Activists Continue to Grow in Membership and Help Locals Take Action Today

My guest this week, Steven Cecchini, is local community organizer and member of Long Island Activists working to save the Affordable Care Act and bring awareness issues in public health to our local communities. Find more information about the movement to resist republican legislators trying to repeal Obamacare, published by the Indivisible Action Group here, and listen to my interview to learn more about the future of health care in NY!

Resist Tuesdays in Melville – SAVE OUR HEALTH CARE
Where: 135 Pinelawn Road @ 1PM, every Tuesday

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO AND TO RSVP

Help Protect Clean Drinking Water for 117 Million Americans

The groundbreaking Clean Water Rule was adopted two years ago to help protect crucial waterways, but in its latest anti-environment assault, the Trump administration is irresponsibly attempting to repeal the Clean Water Rule.

We have just a few days left to urge the EPA to stop its attack on the Clean Water Rule and our nation’s drinking water. Add your voice now! Submit Your Comments for Clean Drinking Water Before Sept. 27th here!

Also, we need to continue to fight back and resist the building of more pipelines like the Keystone XL. Add your voice to the movement and sign up here to help protect our water!!!

Save Bees from Bayer’s Neonicotinoid Pesticides

“Bees are dying at alarming rates, largely thanks to Bayer’s neonicotinoid pesticides. But Bayer is pouring millions of dollars into a PR machine to avoid blame for the bee crisis!” – Friends of the Earth

Get engaged and stay involved by understanding the process of review and regulation of pesticides by the EPA here.

Help Encourage Leading Ice-Cream Maker, Ben & Jerry’s to GO ORGANIC

Last month, on August 10, 2017, “members of the Asociación de Consumidores Orgánicos (ACO), the Mexico City-based arm of the Organic Consumers Association, participated in [their] eight-city international protest against Ben & Jerry’s. The protest followed OCA’s announcement that 10 of 11 samples of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream tested positive for Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. The Mexico City “Dump Ben & Jerry’s” protest caught the attention of officials at the Federal Commission for the Protection of Sanitary Risks (Cofepris), who requested a meeting with the Mexico team. (The Commission, an agency of Mexico’s Ministry of Health, is in charge of preventing and controlling environmental factors potentially harmful to the population, as well as the sanitation and the sanitary control of products and their marketing and labeling).” Read more about this ‘protest success’ here on the OCA website. In the meantime, consider taking action below!!!

Sign the newest version of the Ben & Jerry’s petition, posted by the Organic Consumer’s Association, asking the CEO to make their ice cream Organic!!!

“It’s critical that the decision makers at Ben & Jerry’s know that there are a growing number of allies in the food and social justice movements who are behind this campaign. Soon, they will—thanks to a little help from our friends.” – OCA

According to the OCA, more than 130 organizations and businesses have signed on to a letter to Ben & Jerry’s CEO, Jostein Solheim, asking the company to go organic. Additionally, between today and October 1, another six other organizations will send Ben & Jerry’s petitions to their members. Check out these groups for more information and take action initiatives:

Beyond Pesticides
Daily Kos Food
Revolution Network
Friends of the Earth
Label GMOs
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