Posted on July 5, 2017
We helped plant 11,110 trees. Thanks!
Here at CREDO, we’re always thinking of new ways we can make our planet a greener place. In June, we pledged to help plant 10 trees for each new phone we sold. Well, we’ve tallied the numbers and we’re pleased to tell you that there are now 11,110 more trees planted in the earth, thanks to CREDO members.
The trees were planted in partnership with Trees for the Future, a nonprofit organization that helps communities plant trees to restore life to degraded lands. Our June campaign focused on sub-Saharan Africa, where Trees for the Future’s Forest Garden Program helps African families plant fast-growing trees, fruit and nut trees, hardwoods and food crops together to transform overused and exhausted lands into forest gardens.
These gardens provide families with sustainable food sources, firewood, livestock feed, products to sell at market and a 400% increase in their annual income in only four years. They help people earn more money, grow more food and build a more sustainable future. They slow erosion, fix nitrogen in the soil, cool the land and boost biodiversity.
The trees that we—and you—helped plant are doing a lot of good. For that, we say thanks. Please stay tuned to learn about more CREDO campaigns for a greener planet in the months ahead. And if you’re not already a member, please consider joining us and the many other CREDO members who are making a difference every day.
Posted on July 5, 2017
CREDO Mobile announces Unlimited Data
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The only carrier fighting Trump is now Unlimited.
You asked, we answered. CREDO Mobile now offers an Unlimited Plan option. So surf all you want while still supporting the critical causes you care about.
Ready for Unlimited data? You can learn more and switch to the Unlimited Plan by logging into your Member Services account. Or give us a call at 1-888-264-6071.
An Unlimited plan is a great reason to consider adding a line too. Why not start early and plan for back to school with a Galaxy tablet? Check out the special offers available for additional lines when you log in to Member Services too.
Please note: If you do move to our Unlimited Plan, you will lose any data plan discounts and/or line fee discounts associated with your current plan.
Posted on July 2, 2017
Our June grantees thank you for your support
Each month, CREDO members vote for how we distribute our funding to three amazing organizations. In June, we funded organizations providing life-saving care across the globe, holding lawmakers and industry accountable for the climate crisis, and fighting for LGBTQ rights. Over 55,000 people voted to distribute our monthly donation to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, InsideClimate News and the National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund.
These donations are made possible by CREDO customers and the revenue they generate by using our services. The distribution depends entirely on the votes of CREDO members like you. And for that, our June grant recipients thank you.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
“Thank you CREDO and CREDO members for your critical support of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. Your generosity is helping us provide life-saving medical care to people in urgent need around the world.” To learn more, visit doctorswithoutborders.org.
Posted on July 1, 2017
Vote for these three great causes in July
Each month, CREDO members help decide how we donate tens of thousands of dollars to three nonprofit groups fighting for progressive causes. This July, we’re doing something a little different. This month, you can vote for two great nonprofit organizations – the Center for Constitutional Rights and Social Security Works – and the “Whistleblower Special Defense Fund,” a special fund created by CREDO Mobile to provide funding for legal defense for whistleblowers who expose attacks on our democracy and communities. Learn more about each of these causes, and then cast your vote for one, two or all three by July 31.
Center for Constitutional Rights
For 50 years, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has led the fight to defend and empower those with the fewest protections and least access to legal resources and strengthen movements for social justice.
With the daily attacks on the Constitution and our democracy by the Trump administration, funding from CREDO members is now more important than ever. A CREDO donation will help CCR stand up for social justice and civil and human rights, including fighting racial injustice, LGBTQ persecution and gender-based violence, abusive immigration practices, illegal government surveillance and much more.
Posted on June 27, 2017
New Video: Rainforest Action Network on Banks and Climate Change
Climate change is the single biggest threat to our planet, yet Donald Trump and his fossil fuel led administration continue to claim climate change is a hoax and jam through dirty energy projects like the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. Fortunately, one of the strongest and most effective allies in the fight against Trump’s wholesale hand over of our country to the fossil fuel industry, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), is taking the administration and funders of these dirty fossil fuel pipelines head-on.
This June, CREDO was honored to host Lindsey Allen, RAN’s executive director, at our headquarters to discuss RAN’s response to the Trump administration and Wall Street’s assault on our planet.
Since 1988, CREDO members have voted to donate more than $1.2 million to RAN, and for nearly 30 years, CREDO has been a strong supporter of RAN’s work and partnered with the organization to challenge corporate power and defend the climate and human rights.
Posted on June 15, 2017
This Pride Month, we can’t allow Trump to turn back the clock
Every year at CREDO, we look forward to celebrating Pride Month with our LGBTQ friends and allies across the country, reflecting on all the progress we’ve made — including the anniversary this month of the Supreme Court’s historic ruling on marriage equality — and looking ahead to more victories for civil rights and equality.
But this year’s celebration is very different. Donald Trump and anti-LGBTQ zealot Mike Pence are leading a Republican Party notorious at the state and federal level for trying to roll back LGBTQ equality and discriminate against LGBTQ people. They have filled their administration with bigots and religious extremists and are refusing to even acknowledge Pride Month.
Since taking office, the Trump administration has taken steps to undo years, even decades, of progress. In just the last few months, Trump and his anti-LGBTQ administration have:
- Removed questions regarding sexual orientation from government-sponsored surveys
- Rolled back protections for transgender students
- Signed a so-called “religious freedom” executive order that will harm the LGBTQ community and could be used to discriminate against LGBTQ people
- Nominated a fervent anti-LGBTQ veteran to replace the first openly gay Army secretary
- Proposed a cruel and heartless budget that directly harms LGBTQ people
- Supported the “First Amendment Defense Act,” an expressly anti-LGBTQ bill
- Weakened protections for LGBTQ people who work for federal contractors
- Refused to take action to protect gay men being murdered in Chechnya
The assaults on the LGBTQ community are not only happening at the federal level. Extremists in state legislatures across the country have proposed more than 100 bills that directly single out LGBTQ people, including many that would give license to business owners to discriminate against the LGBTQ community.
At CREDO, one of the best ways we know how to celebrate Pride Month is by standing with our friends and allies in the LGBTQ community and speaking out. To us, that means taking action to defend LGBTQ rights whenever and however we can and doing everything we can to stop Trump and other right-wing fanatics at the federal, state and local level to turn back the clock on all our victories for equality and civil rights.
Here are two important ways you can join the fight this month in support of the LGBTQ community:
- Attend pride marches and equality protests. This month, thousands of pride marches will be taking place across the country, in Washington, D.C. and several local equality and pride marches across the country. (We have some great pride posters you can print and bring with you.)
- Speak out and take action. Call, write and visit your local and federal elected officials and urge them to support protections for LGBTQ people. Speak out when your lawmakers, local businesses or neighbors promote hate and discrimination. Sign our petition urging Congress to ban conversion therapy.
While Pride Month is a time to celebrate the LGBTQ community and reflect on how far we’ve come, the fight for equality and civil rights is far from over. CREDO will continue standing with the LGBTQ community every step of the way.
Posted on June 15, 2017
The Samsung Galaxy S8 is now available
The Galaxy S8 is creating a buzz in the mobile world. CNET called it “the most beautiful phone ever.” PC magazine said it’s “the best phone at nearly everything it does.” Wired said the S8 “feels like the future.”
Why all the excitement? Because the Galaxy S8 features an unprecedented array of technologies and innovations, most notably the stunning Infinity Display. The beautiful 5.8-inch HD display curves around the phone’s edges to fit an amazing amount of real estate into the palm of one hand. It’s large, yes, but it’s still easily navigable.
Other impressive S8 features include:
True water resistance. The S8 is built for spills and splashes. You can use it in the rain—or even in the shower.
Android Nougat. The latest Android OS, Nougat runs faster and makes multitasking easier.
Classic headphone jack. With the S8, you can use your favorite earphones.
Better selfie camera. The front-facing camera captures 8-megapixel photos with an f/1.7 lens and autofocus.
10nm processor. This next-generation processor launches apps faster and extends battery life.
The new Samsung Galaxy S8 is the most advanced smartphone to date. As CNET noted, the S8 “crushes it in performance, battery life, water-resistance and wireless charging.”
Posted on June 15, 2017
Ready for your LGBTQ Pride march? Get your poster here.
June is Pride Month, the world’s annual celebration of the LGBTQ movement. As you may know, there are LGBTQ Pride marches taking place across the country and around the globe.
Marches and protests are important activism opportunities to get our messages out, and compelling posters with effective visuals can help.
If you don’t have time to make your own poster, you can get one from us. We have designed a range of excellent posters, which are all available for free download. Check them out below. Find your favorite, print it out and hold it high as you march for LGBTQ Pride.
This year’s marches have been and will continue to be tremendously energized events. People are turning out in huge numbers to protest the hateful and discriminatory policies of Donald Trump and Mike Pence, whose administration may be the most overtly anti-LGBTQ in recent history. As Sen. Ed Markey said, “[Donald] Trump seems to think #LGBT stands for Let’s Go Back in Time. He’s wrong.”
But millions are marching for what is right. We hope you will join us. And we hope you’ll download, print and share our posters as we stand for LGBTQ pride. See you at the marches this month!
Download Your Free Posters
Download When We Are More Free (PDF) – 11×17 in.
Download When We Are More Free (PDF) – 18×24 in.
Posted on June 13, 2017
Every phone we sell in June will help plant 10 trees
Planning to buy a new phone? There’s no better time than now. Because for every new phone we sell this month, we’ll make a donation to Trees for the Future to plant 10 trees in sub-Saharan Africa.
These trees will have a direct impact on the Earth and the lives of local people. They’ll be planted as part of Trees for the Future’s Forest Garden Program, which helps African families change their lives by planting fast-growing trees, fruit and nut trees, hardwoods, and food crops together in forest gardens. These gardens then provide families with sustainable food sources, firewood, livestock feed, products to sell and a 400 percent increase in their annual income in only four years.
The goal of Trees for the Future is to enable hundreds of millions of families in Africa to escape hunger and poverty by transforming overused and exhausted lands into forest gardens. When local people plant forest gardens, they make more money, grow more food and build a more reliable future. They stop erosion, fix nitrogen in the soil, cool the land and boost biodiversity. They eat healthier and live happier.
And trees do much more, of course. Every tree removes carbon from the air and releases oxygen. Trees provide shade and a home for birds. They clean our water and lift our mood every day.
So if you’re planning to buy a new phone, there is no better time than this month. Do it now and soon your purchase will help plant 10 new trees give a family in Africa a better future. CREDO Mobile has planted close to 2 million trees worldwide through donations to tree planting organizations. If you’re not already a CREDO Mobile member, be an agent of change and shop for your new phone here.
Posted on June 9, 2017
Video: Rainforest Action Network’s Lindsey Allen visits CREDO headquarters
Lindsey Allen, executive director of the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), visited CREDO headquarters on June 9 for a conversation about RAN’s response to the Trump administration’s attempted revival of the Keystone XL, Dakota Access and other dirty fossil fuel pipelines. Check out the video below if you missed the live broadcast of the event.
CREDO welcomes the Rainforest Action Network’s Executive Director Lindsey Allen to discuss RAN’s response the Trump administration’s attempted revival of the Keystone XL and other fossil fuel pipelines.
Posted by CREDO Mobile on Friday, June 9, 2017
