The Alliance is launching a first-of-its-kind Great Lakes Action Center, a tool for you to voice your opinions and engage your friends on Great Lakes issues with just a few keystrokes.

This online system is focused exclusively on Great Lakes issues and enables our members, volunteers and contacts to quickly and easily participate in issue advocacy with Congress, federal agencies, state officials and local governments, and to reach the media via Letters-to-the-Editor.

It will also allow anyone on our email list to create an easy opportunity for their own friends and contacts to advocate and engage with the Alliance by forwarding sign-up and action info to friends via email and social networks.

The new action center launches with a petition drive to collect 5,000 signatures calling on President Obama to support permanently separating the Great Lakes and Mississippi Rivers to keep Asian carp -- and other invasives --from traveling between and damaging these two major watersheds.

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