WNPJ Action Alerts - Join statewide calls on the environment, peace and more

Action Alert 1: Join statewide environment and sustainability efforts
Action Alert 2: Send a message to Move the Money / Bring Our War $$ Home
Action Alert 3: Tell Dole corporations shouldn't get away with murder
Action Alert 4: Write a letter about Wisconsin's air quality

Action Alert 1: Join statewide environment and sustainability efforts
Background: In recent years, WNPJ's environment work group has helped build active coalitions to challenge the proposed Penokee Hills open-pit iron mine, and to support a carbon free, nuclear free energy policy.  Join our next phone meeting, to share information and thoughts on what sustainability and environmental issues are key to Wisconsin -- from mining for frac sand, iron and other metals; to high-voltage transmission lines; to climate change; to green energy alternatives -- to whatever else you would like to add.
Take Action: Join the WNPJ environment work group conference call on Thursday, October 11 at 6:30 pm.  The phone number is 605-475-4000 and the access code to enter the call is 829422#,
Contact for more info: Carl Sack, 608-250-9240, carl@wnpj.org

Action Alert 2: Send a message to Move the Money / Bring Our War $$ Home
Background: From Seattle to Charlottesville to Milwaukee, local communities are demanding a shift away from runaway war and weapons spending, freeing up our resources to meet our urgent community needs.  Get more information about how you can send a strong message to Move the Money / Bring Our War $$ Home, and how Dane County residents can help pass a resolution this month.  Plus an update on grassroots protests of drone warfare, in Wisconsin, across the United States and around the world.
Take Action: Join the WNPJ peace / anti-militarism work group conference call on Wednesday, Oct 10 at 3:30 pm.  The phone number is 312-340-6650 and the access code to enter the call is 8320544#.
Contact for more info: WNPJ, 608-250-9240, diane@wnpj.org

Action Alert 3: Tell Dole corporations shouldn't get away with murder
Background: During the 1990s, hundreds of people in Nigeria's Ogoni region were killed and tens of thousands were forced from their homes -- all because the Ogoni people were nonviolently protesting the environmental devastation of Royal Dutch Shell's oil operations.  Shell claims it did not support the Nigerian military personnel who carried out these brutal attacks, but the influence of the oil giant on the Nigerian military and government is unquestionable -- as are its payments to the military for so-called "special duties."  The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case, Kiobel v Shell, that may bring the Ogoni people some measure of justice.  Many U.S. corporations, including Dole, are urging the Supreme Court to allow Shell to get away with murder.
Take Action: Sign an online petition calling on Dole to remove its name from a "friend of the court" brief supporting Royal Dutch Shell.
Contact for more info: Colombia Support Network, 608-257-8753, csn@igc.org

Action Alert 4: Write a letter about Wisconsin's air quality
Background: It may seem obvious that communities can't be healthy without clean air, but getting rid of toxic pollutants often means challenging corporate power and demanding that regulatory agencies act.  Physicians for Social Responsibility recently hosted "Health Voices for Clean Air" events in Wisconsin with Dr. Alan Lockwood.  His presentation can be viewed online and he will be interviewed on WORT 89.9 fm in Madison tomorrow, October 9th, at noon; the interview can be streamed online.
Take Action: Click here for more information about PSR's Health Voices for Clean Air campaign, and to sign up to send a letter to the editor voicing concerns about Wisconsin's air quality.
Contact for more info: Physicians for Social Responsibility - Wisconsin, 608-232-9945, info@psrwisconsin.org