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Flood Washington
This week's featured campaign hopes to flood Washington, D.C. with 300,000 emails to Bush--one for every Louisiana resident displaced by Katrina and Rita. Effective storm protection and rebuilding efforts focus on wetland conservation as prevention. From the Healthygulf blog:
A less-known component of New Orleans’ insecurity is the crisis facing our coastal wetlands. Although we know that each mile of coastal marsh diminishes a foot of storm-surge from hurricanes such as Katrina, coastal Louisiana continues to lose a football field’s worth of wetlands every 35 minutes to erosion, jeopardizing the nation’s oil infrastructure, Gulf seafood production, and, most visibly, our coastal cities. A comprehensive plan to reintroduce the land-building power of the Mississippi River into our dissolving coastal marshes has been written, but lies in Washington, unfunded and not prioritized.
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01:00 PM Dec 05, 2005 -
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Allow me to introduce myself
Today's my first day at DIA, so I thought I'd take a moment to introduce myself to y'all.
My name is Jason Lefkowitz, and I'm the new COO here at DIA (PDQ FYI ASAP). My last gig was with Oceana, where I was the Director of E-Activism.
What will I be doing at DIA? A few things. First and foremost, I'm going to be working hard to ensure that our tools and service offerings match up with the needs of activists and advocates. That means making them as focused on helping you get your job done as possible.
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12:00 PM Dec 05, 2005 -
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Gov. Warner Grants Clemency to Lovitt
DeathPenaltyUSA blog has the details.
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suspect this act will stand him in good stead during the 2008
presidential election. Whatever the level of calculation, it was
the right thing to do in a case where a clerk of the state illegally
destroyed forensic evidence before it could be subjected to a
definitive DNA test. For Lovitt, it was either incredibly lucky
-- if he's guilty -- or disastrous -- if he's not -- but for the a
state administering a death sentence, pretty much unpardonable.
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06:00 PM Nov 29, 2005 -
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NPI Webcast at Noon
You don't have to be in Babylon to check the New Politics Institute's latest summit; it's being webcast
from noon today. You, too, can call watching streaming video at
your desk work! (results not guaranteed if you try it with the zoo's panda cam.) You don't get the free chow, but after Thanksgiving, you can probably stand to skip a meal or two, right?
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10:30 AM Nov 29, 2005 -
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Work With Us
Would you make a good Systems Administrator? Join us at our lovely Dupont Circle office (what we're lacking is space we make up for with style). Read more...
11:00 AM Nov 23, 2005 -
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