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.
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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
Posted on June 7, 2017
New videos: Sen. Elizabeth Warren visits CREDO
On Wednesday, May 31, progressive champion Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined us at CREDO headquarters for a very special conversation to discuss progressives’ ongoing resistance to Donald Trump.
During her visit, Sen. Warren blasted Trump’s cruel and heartless budget cuts to Social Security, condemned the influence of big money in Washington, reaffirmed that Obstruction of Justice is an impeachable offense, celebrated the heroes in Portland, Oregon who stood up to racism and hate, made a powerful and moving commitment to the next generation and much more.
You can watch highlights or the full livestream of Sen. Warren’s visit below.
Sen. Warren blasts Donald Trump’s budget cuts to Social Security
Sen. Warren blasts Trump’s budget cuts to Social Security
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren sees through Trump’s lies.
Posted by CREDO Mobile on Thursday, June 1, 2017
Posted on June 6, 2017
5 Gift Ideas for the Recent Grad in Your Life
The tassel was worth the hassle and now it’s time to celebrate the recent grad in your life. After so much studying, it seems the most obvious reward would be a nice massage or a long nap. However, at CREDO Mobile, we believe working to advance progressive causes for the next generation is the most valuable gift of all. Here’s some ideas to help do just that plus some other picks from like-minded companies:
Camp Wellstone
Arm your loved one with practical skills to set progressive political concerns into action. Camp Wellstone (CW) trains people interested in leading progressive political change — from aspiring candidates to campaign organizers. Topics including progressive public policy, grassroots community organizing and grassroots electoral politics shape help shape the curriculum.
Posted on June 2, 2017
Our May grantees thank you for your support
Each month, CREDO members vote for how we distribute our funding to three amazing organizations fighting for progressive causes. In May, each vote helped fund the resistance against Trump by supporting groups that are fighting to protect net neutrality, exposing sexist and misogynistic corporate and political leaders and advocating for peace at home and abroad. Over 90,000 people voted to distribute our monthly donation to Demand Progress Action, UltraViolet and Win Without War.
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 May grant recipients thank you.
Demand Progress Action
“Thank you CREDO members! Your work and support are critical to Demand Progress Action’s efforts to resist Trump’s predations and to hold officials accountable as we fight for social justice – especially as we prepare to lead the fight against new efforts to roll back net neutrality.” To learn more, visit demandprogress.org.
Posted on June 1, 2017
Your vote needed for these three nonprofits in June
Each month, CREDO Mobile lets its members decide how to divide our monthly donation to three great nonprofit groups. This June, you can vote for organizations providing life-saving care across the globe, holding lawmakers and industry accountable for the climate crisis, and fighting for LGBTQ rights. This month you can vote for Doctors Without Borders, InsideClimate News and the National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund. Learn more about their important work, and then cast your vote for one, two or all three by June 30.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Since 1971, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières has been helping people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters or exclusion from healthcare.
Funding from CREDO members will enable Doctors Without Borders’ teams around the world to alleviate suffering by providing high-quality, life-saving medical care, helping feed children suffering from severe malnutrition and building shelters for uprooted families during crises.
Posted on May 17, 2017
New video: CREDO and the ACLU are resisting Trump’s dangerous agenda
As Donald Trump has made good on his campaign promises to attack immigrant communities and upend our civil liberties, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has fought back every step of the way. When Trump signed executive orders to ban Muslims from entering the country, the ACLU was on the front lines successfully blocking his illegal orders in court. And as Trump continues to trample on the constitution and the rights of immigrants, Muslims, women, LGBTQ people and people of color, the ACLU will be there.
This May, CREDO was honored to welcome ACLU National Political Director Faiz Shakir to our headquarters for an important conversation about the ACLU’s work resisting the Trump agenda and its new People Power platform.
Since 1988, CREDO members have voted to donate more than $1.3 million to the ACLU, and CREDO Action is proud to to work in tandem with the ACLU to fight for the rights of Muslims, LGBTQ people, immigrants, women, people of color and other historically disenfranchised communities and to stand up for the civil liberties of every American.
When CREDO activists were at San Francisco International Airport protesting Trump’s Muslim ban, we saw ACLU lawyers hunched over their computers in the airports writing up briefs. And while the ACLU is legendary for what it does in the courtroom, it is now organizing in our local communities to fight back against the right-wing attacks and have deployed its new program – People Power – all across the country.
Posted on May 16, 2017
Want to fight Trump? Give progressive nonprofits unrestricted funds
The Trump administration’s dangerous and cruel actions have sparked a massive progressive resistance. His administration’s assault on civil liberties, social justice and human dignity has moved people to donate to progressive nonprofits in record numbers.
At CREDO, we have donated more than $83 million to progressive nonprofits since 1985. We want to share our experience at CREDO because we know that giving to nonprofits makes a difference and how you give especially matters.
What Unrestricted Donations Do
Most nonprofits depend on institutional and individual donors to fund their operations. By looking back at our own grant applications and follow-up surveys we issue to grantees, we find some interesting patterns.
First and foremost, donations empower people. Personnel costs are among the highest expenses for a nonprofit, but funding employee salaries and benefits is not appealing to many donors. Nonprofits need to maintain full-time staff, hire contractors, pay legal teams, train advocates, power watchdog operations and so much more. Their work would grind to a halt without investments in people.
