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the end of the road
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- Published on Saturday, 31 December 2022 16:01
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PAOV,
With only a few hours left of 2022, this is our last shot to reach our fundraising goal. I'm hopeful... but also pretty nervous. I could really use your help right now.
Over the past few weeks, thousands of Dogwood supporters have made a special gift to help us reach our fundraising goal. And tonight, with only hours left until a new year begins, we’re almost there!
We started off needing to raise $21,780. But with the generous support of...
Elk River contamination
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- Published on Saturday, 31 December 2022 13:05
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PAOV — In BC’s Elk Valley, a 100km stretch of coal mines is polluting the local ecosystem, resulting in deformed fish and fears of a total population collapse of sensitive species. Now, drinking water has also been contaminated.
Save Elk River is urging the BC government to intervene to protect BC water, wildlife, and First Nations communities. Will you add your name?
Help Save Elk River!
1,953 have signed Save ElkRiver’s petition. Let’s get to 2,500!
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I'm not sure how this will go
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- Published on Saturday, 31 December 2022 11:02
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PAOV,
Thank you for all you’ve done this year to build a better future for B.C. and the world. We appreciate all of the time, treasure and talent you have contributed to defending our shared land, water and democracy in B.C.
We came to you earlier with a big ask to fight fracking in the new year: $21,780. Well, I’m happy to say we’ve raised $18,544 of that goal! That means we only have $3,236 to raise before midnight tonight. But that’s...
This is where the rubber hits the road
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- Published on Saturday, 31 December 2022 10:12
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The Intercept was launched with the bold — some would say crazy — idea that world-class investigative journalism taking on the most powerful forces in society could be done without taking money from corporate advertisers on our site and without charging readers a subscription fee.
Eight years later, we’re still here proving the naysayers wrong, breaking major stories every week, holding those in power accountable, and refusing to compromise our core commitment to fiercely independent nonprofit journalism.
But this is where the rubber hits the road.
A jaw-dropping season finale
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- Published on Saturday, 31 December 2022 05:45
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Just $90,000 left to hit our midnight goal
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- Published on Saturday, 31 December 2022 05:12
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Today is New Year’s Eve. We’re almost out of time to reach our year-end fundraising goal of $500,000.
This deadline is not some made-up fundraising gimmick. When the clock strikes midnight and the ball drops, we close the books on 2022, and we cannot afford to begin 2023 behind where we need to be financially.
If you’ve saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately:
Let's buy Coca-Cola
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- Published on Saturday, 31 December 2022 03:18
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Sylvia,
Coca-Cola was just named the world’s worst plastic polluter for the fifth year in a row!
They just won’t fix their problem. So we’re going to take the fight to them.
If enough people reading this email contribute the cost of a single Coke or more, we can buy up enough shares in Coca-Cola and other major plastic polluters to have our say directly at their annual general meetings – and even push for resolutions to their boards forcing them to clean up their act.
Together we’ve already bought shares in Facebook, Google, Monsanto, and more. And our program works – so well, in fact, that after we helped force Apple to adopt its first human rights policy, US regulators started changing rules to try to shut down this kind of work!
But we won’t let that stop us. It’s time for Coke and other plastic polluters to see what we’re made of. Let’s clean up our oceans – chip in now...
Lea Bayliss has a message for you, PAOV
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- Published on Friday, 30 December 2022 18:47
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Thanks PAOV for signing Stop trophy hunting of grizzly bears in the Yukon, Canada
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We just got good news (just in time!)
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- Published on Friday, 30 December 2022 13:39
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We launched our year-end fundraising campaign four weeks ago with a goal of raising $500,000 to fund The Intercept’s groundbreaking investigative journalism in 2023. And now, with just one day left, we’re still $120,000 short of our goal.
But we just got an incredible boost that could help put us over the top: The Intercept has been selected by NewsMatch, a project of the Institute for Nonprofit News, to receive up to $20,000 in matching funds to help support our ongoing investigative journalism in 2023.
That means if you donate to this email right now, your contribution will be worth twice as much. If you contribute $10, we’ll get...
Hunting grizzly bears
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- Published on Friday, 30 December 2022 13:30
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PAOV, we thought this petition might interest you, based on related causes you’ve supported before.
Stop trophy hunting of grizzly bears in the Yukon, Canada
10,508 have signed Lea Bayliss’s petition. Let’s get to 15,000!
Sign now with a clickGrizzly bears are the supreme symbol of wilderness in North America. Yukon Indigenous people profoundly respect grizzly bears and they see bears as our equal. Yukon Indigenous people use a honorific term or...
I know The Intercept has been sending you a lot of emails, but Im hoping youll read this one
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- Published on Friday, 30 December 2022 07:44
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I know The Intercept has been sending you a lot of emails lately, but I’m hoping you’ll take a few minutes to read why I think this year-end fundraising goal is so important.
While carbon pollution has long threatened the Earth’s life-supporting ecosystems, misinformation now threatens to wreak havoc on our democracy-supporting information ecosystem — and fearless reporting is a key part of the solution.
As damaging as conspiracy theories are, their spread is fueled by understandable distrust of a corporate media that keeps serving up more of the same warmed-over neoliberalism that has brought us to the verge of planetary collapse.
To defeat misinformation, toxic nostalgia, and surging fascism, we need clear-eyed journalism...
Were almost there
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- Published on Friday, 30 December 2022 07:01
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Buy this rainforest
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- Published on Thursday, 29 December 2022 23:39
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Sylvia,
For hundreds of generations, the Huaorani Tribe of Ecuador has lived in harmony with the rainforest, alongside sloths, endangered birds, and majestic jaguars.
But now a road has opened up access to their home – bringing in oil and timber companies who want to bulldoze millions of trees and evict them from their land.
It’s a humanitarian and ecological catastrophe. But we can help make it stop.
A small but determined conservation group is working with the Huaorani people to buy up strategic plots of land before they can be sold for drilling and logging. If we all chip in, we can create a buffer zone that shields vast swathes of Amazon rainforest from development – but we need to move fast.
Every dollar will protect one square metre of rainforest – making sure it stays in Huaorani hands forever. Can you chip in today?
Can you donate $5 and make sure we can keep fighting these legal battles?
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- Published on Thursday, 29 December 2022 16:19
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Let’s be clear: Erik Prince’s frivolous and repeated attempts to sue The Intercept are aimed at intimidating us.
Our journalists won’t be bullied away from reporting on any matter in the public interest, and that emphatically includes the activities of billionaire mercenaries. We stand by our reporting, and we’re fighting back in court.
So far we’ve spent over $200,000 on legal fees and costs. That’s a lot of money, but this lawsuit is a chilling threat to press freedom — and we know that readers like you have our backs.
Right now we’re in the midst of our year-end fundraising campaign. We’ve set an ambitious goal so that we can continue to take on challenging...
Read more: Can you donate $5 and make sure we can keep fighting these legal battles?
Indigenous writer jailed
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- Published on Thursday, 29 December 2022 13:07
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PAOV — You can make a difference. Add your name to this petition to help it win.
Free Wrongfully Jailed Indigenous Writer, Domestic Violence Survivor Dawn Dumont Walker
24,695 have signed Matthew Behrens’s petition. Let’s get to 25,000!
Sign now with a clickDawn Dumont Walker is an Indigenous activist from Treaty 6 Territories or the lands colonially known as Saskatchewan, Canada. She is an award winning playwright and writer who was wrongfully jailed...
Ive never been more disappointed in the corporate medias political reporting
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- Published on Wednesday, 28 December 2022 16:10
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I’ve been a political reporter for almost 20 years. Before I became D.C. bureau chief for The Intercept, I worked at for-profit outlets like Politico and the Huffington Post.
But surveying the media landscape today, I’ve never been more disappointed in how badly the corporate media is failing to report on the actual machinations of power in Washington, D.C.
In a democracy, journalists are supposed to inform the citizenry about the life-or-death decisions that are made by their elected representatives. Instead, liberal and conservative outlets alike are retreating into their respective corners to spin out superficial narratives and manufacture cultural grievances — all in a futile attempt to preserve their waning ratings and web traffic.
The Intercept is nearly alone in focusing...
Read more: Ive never been more disappointed in the corporate medias political reporting
$250/month for vital medication
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- Published on Wednesday, 28 December 2022 13:14
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PAOV — You can make a difference. Will you add your name to William’s petition to ensure free access to vital HIV prevention medication?
Minister Green, Dr Kandola : Make HIV prevention medication free in Northwest Territories
18,241 have signed William Gagnon’s petition. Let’s get to 25,000!
Sign now with a clickWe ask the Northwest Territories Minister of Health and Social Services Julie Green, and the Northwest Territories Chief Public Health Officer Dr...
Recent highlights from the Council of Canadians
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- Published on Wednesday, 28 December 2022 13:00
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Every dollar of every donation counts
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- Published on Wednesday, 28 December 2022 09:11
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When I co-founded The Intercept eight years ago, we were incredibly fortunate to receive the generous backing of a major funder. But while I couldn’t be more grateful to our donors who have been willing and able to give at a high level, I’m moved more deeply by the many readers who simply gave whatever they could.
My favorite donations are the ones that come from readers who can only afford $5 or $10. Often, they come in the mail with a handwritten note thanking us for our work and apologizing that they couldn’t give more.
These are the donations that stand out in my mind when I think about who we’re serving here at The Intercept. And especially...
Grandmother vs. Mining Goliath
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- Published on Tuesday, 27 December 2022 23:37
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Sylvia,
Brave grandmother Máxima Acuña has been beaten, hospitalized, and bullied in court by the biggest gold mining company in the world.
Our community has come together to help her before…and now she needs our help again.
For more than a decade, Newmont Mining has had its sights set on Máxima’s family farm in Peru. Newmont tried everything to turn the land into a massive new gold and copper mine, but Máxima refused to give up her home…and has paid a brutal price.
After years of lawsuits, Máxima’s legal fund has dried up. A decision on her case will come any day, but it won't be the end of the road. If she wins, Newmont will try to bankrupt her with an appeal. And if the mining Goliath wins, Máxima will have to appeal herself or lose her land. Without more cash, it's a losing battle. Can...
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- Ban snare traps in highly populated subdivisions of Parkland County
- How the Governments Case Against a Chinese Immigrant Fell Apart
- the butchers of Myanmar
- Save these bears
- Ive been covering Erik Prince for years. He doesnt seem to like that very much.
- This email has the magical ability to make future fundraising emails stop
- This Boxing Day -- let's buy a company?
- Canadians Against Live Export - YYC has a message for you, PAOV
