The State of Oregon is proceeding with a plan to conduct a study that would kill up to 32 mountain[…]
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Senate Passes Humane Slaughter Resolution
On Tuesday (07/31) the U.S. Senate also took steps to halt inhumane practices in the nation’s slaughterhouses by unanimously passing[…]
Read moreMagazines Keep Illegal Cockfighting Alive
As the animal protection movement continues to push for passage of the federal anti-cockfighting bills (S. 345 and H.R. 1155),[…]
Read moreHRC Urges Alaska To Amend Hate Crimes Law To Include Sexual Orientation
The Human Rights Campaign recently urged the Alaska Governor’s Commission on Tolerance to support amending the state’s hate crimes law[…]
Read moreHRC Responds To Alarming Eruption Of Recent Anti-Gay Hate Violence
On August 3rd, The Human Rights Campaign called on Congress and the Bush administration to use their bully pulpits to[…]
Read moreHRC Urges FBI To Assist In The Investigation And Prosecution Of Colorado Hate Crime
The Human Rights Campaign in a letter on August 10th urged the FBI to open an investigation into the murder[…]
Read moreCage Birds: There is No Such Animal
By Kathy Guillermo If you stayed at certain hotels this summer, particularly in Hawaii and Florida, you may have seen[…]
Read moreEducation-The Surest Route to the Economic Mainstream
There was plenty of discussion at the National Urban League’s just-concluded annual conference in the nation’s capitol. We had such[…]
Read moreThe Durban Conference: Will America be Missing in Action?
As the World Conference against racism, xenophobia, and related intolerance, scheduled to convene August 31 to September 7 in Durban,[…]
Read moreAmerica’s Challenge: Reclaiming Souls on Ice
There’s a bomb waiting to go off beneath American society, a bomb set by the mindless get-tough-on-crime rhetoric and laws[…]
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