http://www.neversurrender.org/neversurrender/index.cfm?mktcode=80105 Dear Activist:
It seems like everyday there's more bad news coming out of Washington -- today's recess appointment of John Bolton is a case in point. On Friday, our movement for an America that reflects our values suffered a particularly devastating blow -- Congress passed a terrible energy bill. This legislation makes us more dependent on dirty energy, and hands out billions of unnecessary corporate pork along the way.
The bill gives away more than $8.5 billion in tax breaks over the next 10 years to oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear power, and electric utilities. The nuclear industry alone gets $1.5 billion in direct subsidies, $2 billion in "risk insurance," and loan guarantees for future new reactor construction.
But as if that wasn't enough, Representative Tom DeLay managed to slip a provision into the bill at the very last minute to enrich an oil and gas consortium in his district to the tune of $1 billion. Another last-minute addition to the bill (incredibly) relaxes the rules on export of bomb-grade uranium in order to benefit a single medical isotope manufacturer based in Canada.
We worked hard for more than five years to stop this bad bill from becoming law. Endless hours of organizing went into this effort, and we helped deliver hundreds of thousands of messages to Congressional offices opposing Bush's energy policies. While the dirty energy companies may have won this round, we're not giving up now.
Working Assets' new Never Surrender campaign has already raised close to $100,000 to resist the Bush administration's radical agenda of corporate greed and environmental destruction. Our Never Surrender website has tons of ideas and resources to help you fight the Axis of Corporate Evil. Over 70,000 Americans have now joined us in wearing the purple Never Surrender bracelet, signifying their commitment to protecting our environment and our children, to promoting human rights, and to acting with compassion and responsibility at home and abroad.
You can count on us here at Working Assets to keep fighting with everything we have to reverse these destructive energy policies. Meanwhile, we ask that you join with us by ordering and wearing the Never Surrender bracelet to show your opposition to the Bush Administration's disastrous energy and environmental policies. For each Never Surrender bracelet sold, Working Assets will donate $1 to nonprofit groups working towards a progressive and sustainable energy future for America.
Now is the time to recommit ourselves and pledge to Never Surrender!
Yours in the Never Surrender Spirit,
Laura Scher
CEO
Working Assets
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