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Dear President Obama:

It was with great relief and gratitude that we welcomed, at long last, a clarion call in your inaugural address to “respond to the threat of climate change” — the greatest threat, challenge, and opportunity of our time.

We thank you for these words, because your words are powerful, and necessary for change. But words are not enough. We need action.

Mr. President, you are the first leader in our history who will be judged by what you do — or do not do — to protect your people from the already-begun ravages and disruptions brought about by fossil fuels.

So far, Mr. President, you are failing in the face of our earth heating up, and the damage is accelerating.

Just a few months ago, we witnessed New York and New Jersey swallowed up by our still-rising oceans. Our worsening nationwide drought, after the hottest year on record, is clear evidence that our planet is not healing, but is hurtling toward greater climate disruption.

The simple truth is that you will continue failing in the fight against climate change, as long as you continue an energy policy which treats equally the fuels that are hurting us and those that will save us. To meet your call on climate change, your “all of the above” energy policy must end.

Your support for fracking and drilling, coal mines and pipelines, continues to obliterate the progress you could be making with your administration’s gas mileage rule, or your investments in renewable energy. Even if you finally issue a carbon pollution rule that addresses existing sources of pollution, it will mean nothing if you are simultaneously lighting the fuses on carbon bombs by approving the Keystone XL pipeline, Arctic drilling, or fossil fuel export projects.

You must use the power of your office and our federal lands to stop promoting fossil fuel development, and reject these projects outright.

While we recognize that a majority in the House of Representatives are clearly not on the side of science or sanity, you can and must find a way - within Congress or the power of your office - to end fossil fuel subsidies and giveaways, and put a price on all greenhouse gas pollution, so that fossil fuel executives can no longer get rich from the destabilization of our climate, and so fossil-free energy can thrive. If Congress remains in the way, you must fight to change Congress.

You must invest significantly in sustainable sources of energy as part of a plan to rapidly transition our nation from fossil fuels. And these efforts should be coupled with resources to help our cities, states and industries prepare for the damage that climate change is already bringing. (The $50 billion Sandy relief package and the drought’s impacts on food prices are just two painful reminders that the cost of inaction is enormous, and untenable.)

Confronting climate change also happens to be our best opportunity to create the broad-based economic revitalization that your policies have largely failed to achieve. This is not simply an empty trope of idealistic environmentalists, it is the truth.

Mr. President, we are urging you to do as our other Illinois president did when confronted with the great moral issue of his time: to take bold, decisive action to end one great societal ill, changing the economy in the process, and usher in a new era of American freedom, security and prosperity.

This is the moment. We will support you. But you must lead and take action, starting first and foremost with your rejection of the presidential permit required by the Keystone XL pipeline, which is your decision and yours alone.

Sincerely,
[YOUR NAME HERE alongside thousands of other reasonable people]

I Dreamed A Dream (Les Miserables cover)

I think it sounded better before I uploaded it to YouTube??? D: the mysteries of the internet. /more like data loss. /my voice is rusty. </excuses>

I had been hiccuping bits of this song for weeks, ever since I saw Jinkx Monsoon perform it as Edie Beale at a RPDR viewing party (weeks and weeks ago!). Thought this would be a good way to exorcise myself.

Didn’t have any instruments with me, so I used the accompaniment posted by Kris Rawlinson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtGdQ_gGhoo - thank you!!

Oh Jinkx, will you just make an album already!? (And, perhaps, the Vaudevillians can make one?) I’ve spent so much much time trawling youtube for videos of your singing with decent sound quality! And of course, I will gladly keep spending it.

On another note, that 6.07 transition straight from the Charleston to the can-can is delightful!

(Appended) Can I just say, I love how happy Alexis Mateo looks watching Jinkx, off to the right (that is her, yes?)

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i’m jealous of 
your pillows
and of your sheets

i want to hear
the sound of
your heartbeat 

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Dear White People (2012)

DEAR WHITE PEOPLE follows the stories of four black students at an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over a popular “African American” themed party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film will explore racial identity in “post-racial” America while weaving a universal story of forging one’s unique path in the world. 

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ETA:

Help send the film to the Tribeca Industry Meetings vote here.

I know ppl are still reblogging this so edited to include the voting link. 

The #DearWhitePeople Union is UNSTOPPABLE. So excited to make a movie you will love as much as we love you! (which is a lot lot)

we posted about this previously. please vote if you have not already.

meant to reblog this to here, so…. GO VOTE IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY!!!!

Right now, Dear white people has 50.22% of the vote. The next closest is Sex After Kids with about 14%.

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