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Once again we approach the hectic end of yet another year, with all the hustle and bustle of wellness wishing and good cheer.  ‘Tis the season that brings out the very best in us and perhaps the worst. It is a time when the gentle touch of Angels is most needed and apparent. I Read More… Greetings Friends & Angels One & All! We’ve mourned our dead. We’ve passed through denial and anger (well, SOME of us have) and moved on to various degrees of acceptance. Now, before the holidays take up all our attention, it’s time to ask some hard questions about circumstances leading up to and beyond the eleventh of September. There exists far too Read More… No Holiday from Hard Questions The Human Rights Campaign called the poll, released by the Kaiser Family Foundation on November 13th, showing increased acceptance of gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans encouraging, but expressed concern that even in this improved environment discrimination and violence remain persistent problems. The data also shows that the American people strongly support federal legislation to The Human Rights Campaign expressed great disappointment in the Salvation Army for rescinding a decision to extend health benefits to the domestic partners of its employees in a regional division. The turnabout came as a result of a pressure campaign by anti-gay organizations, that forced the group to backtrack on a forward-thinking policy that Reports from Capitol Hill indicate that in the past few weeks, the puppy mill industry has mobilized its forces to defeat S. 1478, the Puppy Protection Act. They are spreading false information about the legislation. We must counteract the opposition’s flood of letters and phone calls to Senate offices, and offer expressions of SUPPORT Read More… Urgent Action Needed On Puppy Mill Bill The North Atlantic Right Whale population, which once numbered in the thousands, has dwindled to only about 300 individuals, as a result of collisions with ships and entanglement in commercial fishing gear. Just recently, the nation watched in agony as unsuccessful attempts were made to save Churchill, a whale entangled in deadly fishing gear Read More… Right Whales Need Your Help On Thursday (11/15), the Senate Agriculture Committee approved legislation to combat animal fighting and to address the abuse of downed animals at stockyards as part of S. 1628, known as the “Farm Bill.” The animal fighting provision, pushed by Senators Wayne Allard (R-CO) and Tom Harkin (D-IA), bars any interstate shipment of birds for Read More… Senate Agriculture Committee Approves Animal Protection Measures Every March, the ice floes in Norway are bloodied as hunters bludgeon and skin baby harp seals for their fur. The Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade reports that approximately 80% of the seals killed are just weeks old, and that because of the inaccuracy of clubbing, many of the seals are fully conscious Read More… Norway Wants To Make Killing A Tourist Attraction Agbiotech and corporate special interests in reaction to stubborn global resistance have stepped-up their propaganda and bullying. This aggression is evident in the media, the marketplace, the trade and diplomatic fronts, the legislatures, courts, patent offices, and the streets of the cities where anti-globalization protests have taken place. Recognizing that a critical mass of Read More… Biotech Bullies: Business as Usual Despite pro-active moves by the White House and agbiotech interests in the wake of Sept. 11 and the war in Afghanistan, the embattled Biotech Century remains stillborn. Fast Track has fizzled, at least for the moment. European and Asian politicians still recognize that trying to force untested and unlabeled American and Canadian Frankenfoods down Read More… What’s Next: Food & Anti-GE Activism in a Time of Crisis |
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