#ShutDownPalace

The purpose of the Shut Down Palace campaign is to urge the retirement of Lolita the orca from the Miami Seaquarium, owned by Palace Entertainment. By boycotting, protesting and raising awareness we hope one day Lolita will see her home waters again....

[bigunknownkingdom]

Confederate is a Bad Idea #3

A story about escaped black women who form a badass gang. They use their various skills to expertly track down the children that were violently ripped away from them at auctions. As they save their children or exact their revenge, their partners (men and women who are free in the West) wait for them on a massive ranch set up by a mysterious benefactor. It can be anachronistic and bloody a la Tarantino, without the gratuitous use of the n word and Samuel L Jackson.

[shutdownpalace]

yesss

[shutdownpalace]

Join the #March4Lolita taking place in Miami, London, Seattle, Las Vegas and New Hampshire! pic.twitter.com/w5E4Clu1Zj http://thndr.me/77h5IY

[shutdownpalace]

#March4Lolita

I just supported #March4Lolita on @ThunderclapIt // @Xtinalover31188

I just supported #March4Lolita on @ThunderclapIt // @Xtinalover31188

[shutdownpalace]

2017 Miracle March for Lolita with events in London, Miami, Las Vegas, Seattle & New Hampshire! It’s time to Retire the world’s loneliest orca!

March 31: Miracle March for Lolita – London facebook.com/events/1812312835683030/

April 1: Miracle March for Lolita - Miami facebook.com/events/316597388705591/

Miracle March for Lolita – Seattle facebook.com/events/1053310828148690/

Miracle March for Lolita – New Hampshire facebook.com/events/1284856651606624/

Miracle March for Lolita – Las Vegas facebook.com/events/134700610367290/

[shutdownpalace]

‪Pls join & share the #March4Lolita thunder clap! ‬ ‪We need at least 50 more supporters by Friday! #Blackfish https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/53619-march4lolita‬

[shutdownpalace]

Lolita needs you to be her voice! Please tweet all day today to share her story. Also join the #March4Lolita Tweet Storm on March 4th.

Update SDP Tuesday tweets https://sites.google.com/site/tilikumandco/blackfishtwitterstories/tokitae

March 4th Tweet Storm Thunder Clap! https://www.facebook.com/events/361795170873431/ https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/53619-march4lolita

[babygoatsandfriends]

[omgsamchap]

Baby emus are a gift

[figsandnewtons]

important reminder about voting tomorrow

If you are standing in a line when polls close, they are legally required to still let you vote. Do not believe anyone who says that voting has been extended to Wednesday; this does not happen.

Be safe, be smart, and if you see any attempts to block citizens from casting a ballot, be it intimidation, the requesting of specific pieces of ID (such as insisting you need a passport over others), or anything else, contact the Election Protection Hotline (866-OUR-VOTE), the Department of Justice Voting Rights Hotline [phone]), or any local officials such as your county clerk, elections commissioner, elections supervisor, or your state board of elections.

[caong]

The entire reason Seaworld even exists today is because of one single young Southern Resident female who kicked off the “Shamu” brand. They owe everything they are to the Southern Resident community, and have given nothing back. Now they’re staying silent at the one time the Southern Residents most need their help.

That’s not conservation. That’s not education. That’s willful ignorance.

[rodvegyves]

[shutdownpalace]

This is very important! Lolita's family is in need of our help! The Southern Residents need Chinook salmon to survive. The Snake Damns are making so the salmon cant make it to them! Please make these calls each day and ask everyone you know to do the same. We need to be louder and even more determined not to let these incredible families to be wiped out by government inaction. Sign this petition https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-snake-river-dams-save-orcas Call POTUS at [phone] Ask Him to Breach the Four Snake River Dams NOW Call Washington State Governor Jay Inslee [phone] Ask him to Support breaching the 4 lower Snake River Dams NOW Call Senator Patty Murray [phone] Ask her to Support breaching the 4 lower Snake River Dams NOW Call Senator Maria Cantwell [phone] Ask her to Support breaching the 4 lower Snake River Dams NOW (text credit Haze)

[shutdownpalace]

RSVP & join us for the 2017 Miracle March for Lolita! Activists will be gathering in Miami & London from around the world once again to take a stand for #blackfish Lolita & all cetaceans. Miami: (April 1st) https://www.facebook.com/events/316597388705591/?ti=icl London: (March 31st) https://www.facebook.com/events/1812312835683030/?ti=icon

[king-lobo]

Un-dam The Snake River!

[king-lobo]

stumpyx163:

king-lobo:

The Southern Residents are in dire need of our help. We have already lost J-14 Samish and J-28 Polaris, and little J-54 Dipper will not survive without his mother and will likely suffer the same fate as Polaris - if he has not already. These whales need our help immediately or we WILL lose them.

Contact lawmakers! Let them know why destroying the four lower Snake River dams is imperative to the survival of the Southern Residents. You can find phone numbers, email, and physical addresses here as well as important talking points to include in your letter. Please keep in mind that even if you are not a U.S. Citizen, you CAN still contact President Obama and Washington state Governor Jay Inslee!

Also, sign the petitions here, and visit these other sites to find out about more ways you can help. If anyone has any other links or ways to help, please feel free to add them!

Hope you don’t mind a long addition 

General Help:

Don’t eat salmon, this is taking away the orca’s food supply. This includes farmed salmon is extremely detrimental to the environment. Reduce water usage, electricity usage. Stop Toxic run off. Storm drains take harmful chemicals straight to the ocean. Use natural cleaning products that do not contain harmful chemicals. (Recently Ace Hardware began including signs for Orca Safe products! See Here. All the safe products are easy to identify and the advise written might help you find options in other stores too!) 

Donation Help: The Whale Museum, Center for Whale Research, Orca Network. Adopt a southern resident orca! Become a member of the Center for Whale Research! Petition Help: Support a Whale Protection zone for them Things Nearby/Visiting People can do! Responsible Whale Watching Heck- Land Whale Watching Citizen Science Let the Orca Network and Salish Sea Hydrophone Network know where they have been/are! Get involved in restoring Salmon Habitat in your area

Spread the Word! Reblog this, talk to people, reblog any source- sign petitions - GO CRAZY

(Taken and updated a little from my old post but some stuff I missed links may be broken)

[marine-biologist-aron-howells-d]

Leonardo Dicaprio documentary on climate change is now online.

[jmventre]

Starving Orcas: Article & Media Coverage with Scientist Ken Balcomb at Pier 66 - Voice of the Orcas

This site provides a voice to those without. It's administrated by former whale and dolphin trainers that share a common philosophy. Each experienced a change of heart after working with killer whales in captivity.

Scientists Ken Balcomb & Dr Deborah Giles, representing the Center for Whale Research, a retired Army Corps Engineer & Blackfish advocates met for a solemn press conference on Friday 28 October 2016. The press corps, orca lovers, at least one whale-watch boat captain, & concerned citizens bore witness and some provided signage on a mostly sunny day in Seattle.

[riversrunfree-blog]

Let’s let Obama know we are serious about breaching the Lower Snake River Dams and we’ve got good reasons to be! The president is considering issuing an executive order–now it’s time for us to show him just how many people support the decision!

[orcacharm]

For those who can afford it, can we all just adopt J46 Star? Hearing about her attempts to save her family breaks my heart and I want to support her and the rest of the srkw’s in the small way that we can. 

You can adopt her here

Sign this petition to support the removal of the Snake river dams