Tangible results. Hmmmm, how sweet you are. Proof that organizations do make change in their communities, presented to you in bite size pieces. -Due in part of the efforts of DIA community members NCADP and North Carolina Coalition for a Moratorium, North Carolina just imposed a death penalty moratorium. What's a moratorium? A two-year suspension of executions. Death penalty trials and appeals will not be suspended. People can still be sentenced to death. Says Jason, “It's huge for a southern state to do that. NC would be the current odds-on for the first southern state to abolish down the road.” Still a long battle to be won, but great progress nonetheless. -"Over the past year, Oceana, the Gulf Restoration Network and other groups organized citizens around St. Gabriel to make their voices heard and object to Pioneer's use of mercury. More than 1,200 local anglers, students, and other concerned citizens signed postcards to the CEO of Pioneer and 128 phone calls were placed into their headquarters by ordinary people, tired of the company polluting their lakes, rivers, and streams. In the month prior to Pioneer's announcement that they would finally follow the prevailing trend in the industry and update their technology to a mercury-free process, GRN mobilized their e-activists with DIA's tools to generate nearly 2,000 e-mails to Pioneer demanding the change." -Aaron Viles, Gulf Restoration Network -"When Oceana asked Amazon to remove shark fin soup from its site, it responded by politely saying "um...no." But when they received 14,000 e-mails from our supporters to that effect, the soup came off its site faster than a prom dress. See our victory message to our supporters here"! -Maureen Bonner, Oceana -Unitedforpeaceandjustice.org, along with several peace groups from around the DIA community participated in an extraordinary outpouring for peace in Washington DC and in communities all around the country. On Saturday, the National Mall was filled with the voices of 500,000 people committed to doing their part to end the war in Iraq and bring all of the troops home. The energy in this massive turnout was electric. -"US Campaign for Burma helped get Burma on the UN Security Council's permanent agenda in September 2006, for the first time in history. January 12, 2007 brought a resolution on Burma in front of the UN Security Council (also a first). We received enough votes from the Council to approve the resolution - which called for an end to attacks on civilians in Burma's ethnic minority areas, the release of 1200 political prisoners (including the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Aung San Suu Kyi), and UN-facilitated transition to democracy - but China and Russia used their veto powers to keep the resolution from passing. We will continue to push for UN Security Council action on Burma, with Democracy in Action's help!” -Cristina Moon, The US Campaign for Burma *Do you have your own victory story? Let us know!