Human Rights Campaign Executive Director Elizabeth Birch recently sent a letter on behalf of the group's 460,000 members to the[…]
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NAACP Resolves Lawsuit With The Adam’s Mark Hotel Chain Announces End Of Its Economic Boycotts
On December 3rd, Kweisi Mfume, President & CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), announced the resolution[…]
Read moreAdministration To Undermine Critical Local Air Quality Protections
In one of the most damaging regulatory rollbacks in Clean Air Act history, the administration is expected soon to release[…]
Read morePublic Comments Needed To Help Captive Primates
The biomedical research industry uses 57,000 monkeys and apes in laboratories every year. Under a 1985 amendment to the Animal[…]
Read moreNew Report Details Those At Greatest Risk From Antibiotic Resistance
A new report, "When Wonder Drugs Don't Work: How Antibiotic Resistance Threatens Children, Seniors, and the Medically Vulnerable," recently released[…]
Read moreUpdate On Lousiana Dog Dragging Case
The DeRidder Daily News (12/18/01) reports that a man who participated in the dragging death of a dog last May[…]
Read moreAw, Shoot!
By Alisa Mullins and Carla Bennett Want to commit the perfect murder? Get a gun and hunting license. Then "accidentally"[…]
Read moreUpdate On Senate Farm Bill Amendments
After countless days of debate and argument, final consideration of the Farm bill this year was blocked by Senate Republicans.[…]
Read moreThat Old-Time Hypocrisy Part One
Oh yes! Give me that old-time hypocrisy! How I love it! Self-righteous hypocrites, what would this world be without them?[…]
Read moreExxon’s Assault On Western Gray Whales
There may be fewer than 100 Western gray whales left in the world, and many conservationists fear their extinction in[…]
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