As our Hurricane Katrina response heads into its 20th day(9/22/05), our Disaster Animal Response Teams continue their quest to rescue[…]
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Schwarzenegger Veto Puts Politics Over People
Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese made the following statement about California Governor Schwarzenegger's veto of legislation extending equal marriage[…]
Read moreRoberts Confirmation Makes The Next Nominee Critical To Preserving Court Balance
Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese made the following statement about the need for a balanced Supreme Court as the[…]
Read moreVatican Scapegoats Gays and Leaves Criminals Unaccountable
The Human Rights Campaign derided a new instruction to Catholic seminaries to look for "evidence of homosexuality" in seminarians and[…]
Read moreAmendment to Head Start Bill Allows Taxpayer-Funded Discrimination
On september 22nd, long-established civil rights protections faced another attack in the House of Representatives with the passage of an[…]
Read moreRacial Profiling: For the People Who Don’t Look Like Us
By: Marc H. Morial President National Urban League Many of us, still reeling physically and psychologically from the back-to-back battering[…]
Read moreHurricane Katrina’s Continuing Crisis
By: Marc H. Morial President National Urban League Throughout the stricken Gulf region, the flood waters are receding, civil order[…]
Read moreWhat Has become Visible: A Matter of Fairness
By: Marc H. Morial President National Urban League "Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster," Jim[…]
Read moreStatement of Environmental Defense on House Passage of "Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act"
Following the passage of Rep. Richard Pombo's (R-CA) endangered species bill in the House, Environmental Defense urged the Senate to[…]
Read moreAre Animal Rights Activists Racist?
By Alka Chandna, Ph.D. In the weeks since People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals launched its Animal Liberation Project[…]
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