Posted on October 4, 2016
New video: Southern Poverty Law Center and CREDO: Fighting hate, extremism and Trumpism
On September 19, Richard Cohen and Heidi Beirich, the president and director of the Intelligence Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), respectively, visited the CREDO office. Over the years, CREDO has contributed more than $100,000 to the SPLC, a September 2016 CREDO Donations recipient, and we will continue to support its critical mission of fighting bigotry and hate.
During their visit, the SPLC reviewed their recent litigation successes of standing up for victims of discrimination and hate and discussed their current efforts to take technical and financial resources out of the hands of hate groups.
Posted on October 3, 2016
Stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline
The Dakota Access pipeline is Keystone XL all over again. It’s slated to carry 450,000 barrels of dirty oil per day from North Dakota to Illinois, cutting through fragile wildlife habitat, environmentally sensitive areas and sovereign tribal property. Worse, the pipeline would travel under the Missouri River, threatening the drinking water of millions of people downstream if a catastrophic oil spill were to occur.
While the Obama administration announced a few weeks ago that “construction of the pipeline on Army Corps land bordering or under Lake Oahe will not go forward at this time,” this fight is far from over.
The Standing Rock Sioux are leading the fight, and they have inspired a wave of grassroots activism around the country. CREDO has played a critical role, including collecting more than 265,000 petition signatures and making thousands of calls to the White House. We also produced this video to highlight the local indigenous people and grassroots activists leading the fight:
Posted on October 3, 2016
Three progressive groups we’re funding in October
It’s a new month and that means three new organizations to choose from in our donations election. This month you’ll decide how we divide our monthly donation among three amazing progressive groups: Bold, NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Other98.
Each of these organizations is doing incredibly important work to fight for causes that progressives stand for: the environment, civil rights and economic justice. They are effective, they are aggressive and they each have a track record of success.
Learn about each organization’s impressive work and then vote for one, two or all three.
Posted on September 30, 2016
VICTORY: Alabama judge Roy Moore suspended from the bench
Our activism works.
Friday, the Alabama Court of the Judiciary suspended Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore from the bench for using his office and his authority to block marriage equality.
Last January, more than 53,000 CREDO activists pushed back on Judge Moore’s hateful and bigoted misuse of power. They recognized that despite the fact that LGBTQ people could marry in all 50 states, the fight for equality for LGBTQ Americans was far from over.
In the last nine months, CREDO members have also pushed back against extremist state legislators’ attempts to pass anti-transgender laws. Most notably, CREDO members helped force the NBA and NCAA to pull major games from North Carolina in response to the state’s discriminatory anti-transgender law, HB 2.
The massive opposition to HB 2 is having a chilling effect in other states like Texas where right-wing extremist legislators are trying to push similar anti-LGBTQ bills. Alabama’s strong rebuke of Judge Moore will send a similar message to other anti-LGBTQ public officials that there will be a price to pay for obstructing equality.
You can help add more voices to this important work and celebrate the power of our collective activism by sharing the news of this victory with your friends and family.
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We look forward to continuing to work together to fight for LGBTQ equality.
Thank you for your activism. It clearly matters.
Posted on September 29, 2016
WATCH: The fight to vote in 2016
The right to vote is under attack. In states across the country, conservatives have enacted discriminatory photo ID laws, cut back early voting, eliminated polling locations and done everything they can think of to make it harder for people to vote.
How did it come to that, today, in 2016? Find out by watching a video CREDO just co-produced with the Brennan Center for Justice on the fight to vote in 2016:
Posted on September 28, 2016
5 Questions for our VP of Engineering & Product, Haruko
Haruko Kurata is CREDO Mobile’s Vice President of Engineering and Product. She makes the complex operational puzzles involved in telecommunications look easy to navigate. Here at CREDO, Haruko is admired for her technical know-how, amazing negotiation skills and upbeat attitude. Get to know her in these five questions.
1. What is the best part of working for CREDO Mobile?
The people. When I first joined CREDO, I was struck by the uniqueness of the culture. We have smart and caring employees who are definitely different. I had worked at a medium-sized public company as well as a startup before coming to CREDO, and CREDO has a personal and tight-knit family culture that I had not experienced before. We are genuine and deliberate in what we do, and it makes for a purposeful culture and workplace.
2. Which progressive cause do you care about most?
I have always admired the ACLU and their work on human rights. Despite the fact that we should all have protected, basic human rights, terrible things happen to particularly vulnerable populations – women, children, minorities, immigrants. I am grateful there are organizations like the ACLU that work to defend civil liberties for everyone.
Posted on September 23, 2016
iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are now available from CREDO Mobile
CREDO Mobile, the carrier with a conscience, is now offering iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, the best, most advanced iPhone ever, featuring an all-new advanced camera system, dust- and water-resistant design, stereo speaker system and the A10 Fusion chip – the most powerful chip on any smartphone while delivering the best battery life ever in an iPhone. Customers can order their iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus beginning today, Friday, Sept. 23.
A great phone deserves a carrier that’s always working for a better world and a better plan. CREDO Mobile recently announced new shared data plans starting at $30/month with remarkable coverage on the nation’s largest and most dependable 4G LTE network. For full pricing and availability details, please visit credomobile.com.
Posted on September 22, 2016
VICTORY: Enterprise ended its ALEC membership
Our activism works. Yesterday, news broke that Enterprise Rent-a-Car has ended its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the shadowy corporate front group that blocks clean energy policies, supports discriminatory voter ID laws and works to stop gun control legislation.
Nearly 90,000 CREDO members helped make this possible by signing our petition demanding that Enterprise stop funding climate-change denial and immediately end its membership in ALEC.
Posted on September 14, 2016
Fifteen years later, CREDO Activists stand with Rep. Lee against endless war
On Sept. 14, 2001, Rep. Barbara Lee was the sole member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF).
The vote was 420-1.
Since then, the AUMF has been used to enter into wars without knowing the costs or consequences, and frankly, it is dangerous. It is a blank check for war, and it is far past time we repealed it.
That’s why Rep. Lee launched a campaign on CREDOMobilize.com to tell Congress to stop the endless war and repeal the 2001 and 2002 AUMFs. Her petition reads:
Repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force – the flawed blank check that authorizes the president to wage war, anywhere at any time. It’s been fifteen years of endless war. Now is the time for the U.S. Congress to repeal the overly broad 2001 and 2002 AUMFs.
Posted on September 8, 2016
New video: Why CREDO is helping Stand.earth stand up to Starbucks
On August 30th, 2016, Kristi Chester Vance, deputy director of Stand.earth, and Ross Hammond, Stand.earth’s director of U.S. campaigns, visited our San Francisco office. They came to thank CREDO for our support, not only in our June donations election but also over the last decade.
During their visit, CREDO presented Stand.earth with a check for $40,393.
