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By Jason Baker As I write this, it is September 11, exactly one year since the attack on the United States. I was in New York City at the time, visiting from my adopted home in India, where I head PETA's Asia campaigns, never guessing that I would become a part of such a Read More… 9-11's other lesson The Human Rights Campaign celebrated with The No to Discrimination/SAVE Dade Campaign and Miami/Dade County, Fla., as the ballot initiative to repeal the county’s human rights ordinance protecting gays and lesbians was defeated. With 96 percent of precincts reporting, voters in Dade County voted 53 to 47 not to repeal the amendment, which protects Read More… HRC Applauds Victory In Fight For Equality In Dade County On September 12th, The Human Rights Campaign applauded the borough council of New Hope, Pennsylvania, for unanimously passing a non-discrimination ordinance that included sexual orientation and gender identity. Allentown, Erie County and Philadelphia have all passed similar laws in the last several months, making New Hope the fourth Pennsylvania locality to enact this type Read More… HRC Applauds Victory In Pennsylvania Fight For Equality The Human Rights Campaign recently joined key civil rights and women's rights groups in opposing the nomination of Michael McConnell for the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. McConnell, a professor at University of Chicago Law School, has written disturbing law briefs and articles that cause concern that he will not fairly enforce federal Read More… HRC Opposes The Nomination Of Michael Mcconnell To The 10th Circuit Court Of Appeals On September 25th, The Human Rights Campaign applauded the filing of a discharge petition on the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act (LLEEA) H.R. 1343, legislation that would add real or perceived sexual orientation, gender and disability to current federal hate crimes law. "After four sessions of Congress with no progress on this Read More… HRC Applauds Bipartisan Discharge Petition Effort To Move Forward On Hate Crimes Legislation By:Tony Allen and Leland Ware [The Guest Columnists are, respectively, president Of the Metropolitan Wilmington (Del.) Urban League and professor of Law at the University of Delaware] The Northwest, Westside and Northeast neighborhoods of Wilmington, Delaware, which are largely poor and many of whose residents are African-American and Latino-American, have been beset By: Hugh B. Price President National Urban League It's amazing to recall that at several different times during the horrifying and deadly march of AIDS across the globe in the past two decades, there's seemed to be in some quarters a sense that AIDS was the disease of"those people,"and therefore, not a problem"we"really needed Read More… AIDS Doesn't Discriminate By: Hugh B. Price President National Urban League On September 20, a New York Times news story told of a remarkable pattern seen in the sifting of potential jurors for the last federal trial stemming from the sensational case of the savage sexual assault of Abner Louima by New York City police officers in Only two horse slaughterhouses remain in the U.S., both in Texas. Ironically, Texas state law specifically prohibits the sale of horsemeat for human consumption. (Tex. Agric. Code Ann. Enviroshop is maintained by dedicated NetSys Interactive Inc. owners & employees who generously contribute their time to maintenance & editing, web design, custom programming, & website hosting for Enviroshop.
As detailed by a recent Washington Post Article ("Cloned Food Products Near Reality," 9/16/02), cloning technology is rapidly infiltrating the animal agriculture industry. Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) imposed an informal moratorium on selling the products of cloned livestock last year, many farmers who invested in cloned breeding stock are growing anxious Read More… Factory Farmers Turn To Cloning |
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