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U.S. Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) has just introduced a companion bill to Congressman Wayne Gilchrest's (R-MD) "Migratory Bird Treaty Reform Act of 2004" (H.R. 4114). Senator Voinovich's bill (S. 2547) is on the fast track and has already passed the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. This anti-animal legislation would amend the Migratory Bird Read More… Senate Introduces Dangerous Bill To Remove Protections For Migratory Birds The U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled, for the third time, in favor of protecting gray whales! This week, the court denied the Bush Administration's and Makah Indian Tribe's request to reconsider its December 2002 ruling that effectively put a stop to the hunting of whales off the coast of Washington. The government and Read More… Court Of Appeals Rules–Again–To Block Makah Whale Hunt The U.S. House of Representatives defeated an amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill offered by Reps. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Charles Bass (R-NH) by a narrow 215-202 vote. This amendment sought to prohibit the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service from using taxpayer dollars to kill buffalo in Yellowstone National Park. The Yellowstone Read More… Yellowstone Buffalo Amendment Fails By Narrow Vote The first group of eight rescued tigers, after more than a year of care from The Fund for Animals, are settling into their new ten-acre home at PAWS in northern California. "All tigers should be able to live in the wild, but for these cats we've provided a taste of the jungle," said Michael Read More… First Group Of Rescued Tigers Arrives At New Home Marine mammal protection advocates and environmentalists are alarmed at the capture and import of eight dolphins into the "Dolphin Discoveries" tourist attraction in Antigua in just the last month. The dolphins, apparently captured off the coasts of Mexico and Cuba, were imported by the facility after local government officials withdrew their previously-issued permit to Read More… Dolphin Captures Expanding In The Caribbean The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (H.R. 857/S. 2352), which will ban slaughter of horses for human consumption in the U.S., is under assault. Powerful animal use industry groups are lobbying members of Congress in an effort to turn them against the bill. Recent mailings from groups like the American Meat Institute and the Read More… Livestock Lobby Spreads Misinformation About Horse Slaughter Ban The Oklahoma House of Representatives has shot down legislation that would have created a ballot measure to weaken penalties for cockfighting and make some forms of cockfighting legal again. S.B. 835 was crafted by cockfighters in reaction to the 2002, voter-approved ban on cockfighting. The bill narrowly passed the Oklahoma Senate earlier this year Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League Less than a month ago the nation marked the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in the Brown v Board of Education school desegregation case. That decision, in launching the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, provoked a decade Read More… Quiet Activism on The Movement’s Front Lines By: Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League Ask different people which song by Ray Charles first came to mind when they heard of the great singer's death last week and you're liable to get virtually the entire Ray Charles canon. In the 1950s and 1960s the power and popularity of Read More… Let America Be America The Beautiful |
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