Good News!  Amid the bad news that is blasted at us daily, there is GOOD NEWS to be heard.  Would you like to hear some good news for a change?  I thought so.

BTW: I helped make IT HAPPEN.  How?  Every day I receive 50 or so emails asking me to ADD MY VOICE to movements that touch my heart.  

So here are some.  PLEASE contact me if you’d like me to share links to other organizations that with just a click of a button, your voice can make GOOD NEWS.

Organization: www.presente.org
Goal: Workers own their own tips
Good News: As part of the Omnibus Budget Bill that passed and was signed into law, Congress has officially declared that tips are the property of workers, NOT employers.

Organization: www.freedomunited.org
Goal: Protect youth in America from trafficking and exploitation
Good News: Congress has finally introduced the Runaway and Homeless Youth Trafficking Prevention Act (S. 2571; H.R. 5339) that will improve services and protections for homeless youth and children.

Organization: www.list.one.org
Goal: Stop a 30% cut to the foreign aid budget
Good News: The budget was passed without disastrous cuts to foreign aid.  It would have meant fewer vaccines, less food and few schools for the world’s poorest people.  Also, it makes us safer, creates good jobs here at home, and most of all, it’s just the right thing to do.

Organization: www.Change.org
Goal: More Humane choices by retailers, specifically phase out crates for pork products
Good News: Trader Joe’s posted an expanded list of pork products that are now crate free or will be within the next few years.  We just made life a little better for the millions of animals raised for food.

Organization: www.oceana.org
Goal: Protect areas at sea
Good News: Chile announces dramatic expansion of protected areas in its seas. The action means more than 25% of Chile’s ocean is now protected as marine parks which includes some of the most biodiverse and productive ocean places on the planet.  Read more »

http://oceana.org/blog/ceo-note-major-oceana-victory-chile-announces-dramatic-expansion-protected-areas-its-seas?utm_campaign=enews&utm_content=201803enewsUS&utm_source=en&utm_medium=email

Organization: www.oceana.org
Goal: Stop Offshore Drilling
Good News: Belize became the world’s first country to reject ALL offshore oil.  Read more »

http://oceana.org/blog/belize-became-world’s-first-country-reject-all-offshore-oil-here’s-how-it-happened?utm_campaign=enews&utm_content=201803enewsUS&utm_source=en&utm_medium=email