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By Kathy Guillermo In the dead of night on August 23, seven elephants who came from a 90,000-plus acre reserve in Swaziland, Africa, were unloaded at their new 3 acre home at the San Diego Wild Animal Park in Calif. Four more elephants went on to the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, Fla. On August 25th, The Human Rights Campaign released its second annual Corporate Equality Index, which measures how the largest U.S. companies treat their gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees and consumers. This year's report showed a total of 21 major U.S. corporations earned 100 percent ratings. That number is almost twice as many as Read More… 21 Companies Score 100 Percent On Second Annual HRC Corporate Equality Index Responding to a Vatican statement encouraging Catholic lawmakers to oppose civil marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples, the Human Rights Campaign made clear on August 1st that religious institutions will not be forced to recognize the civil marriages of gay and lesbian couples. HRC also urged American lawmakers to be mindful of the The American Bar Association (ABA), the nation's largest legal group, approved a policy on August 12th that supports equal protections for all children, regardless of the sexual orientation or marital status of their parents. The 410,000-member group may now lobby for laws that would permit both members of a same-sex couple, or unmarried heterosexual Read More… American Bar Association Supports Equal Protections For Children Of Same-Sex Parents By: Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League At first glance, the federal Department of Labor monthly report released August 1 seemed to contain good news: the unemployment rate fell from 6.4 percent in June to 6.2 percent in July. But the seeming good news was a mirage: the decline stemmed By: Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League This past weekend thousands of Americans gathered in Washington—joined in spirit, no doubt, by millions of their compatriots throughout the country—to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the historic March on Washington that occurred August 28, 1963. In fact, the commemoration had an even more By: Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League Next year, 2004, will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the momentous decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka school desegregation case. That unanimous decision was momentous for many reasons. One was that it declared Read More… Empowering Black Educational Achievement In Guam, the U.S. Navy has hired sharpshooters to kill members of the island's water buffalo population, claiming that the animals have been intruding on Navy space. Water buffalo are docile animals who were imported to Guam by the Spanish decades ago. Since then, they have become an integral part of island culture, and Read More… Navy's New Target: Island Water Buffalo A disturbing trend is spreading across the Jamaican tourist industry: captive dolphins. Right now, there are two existing facilities—one with two and one with seven dolphins—and at least three dolphin capture permits pending in Jamaica on behalf of various tourist enterprises, each seeking to capture multiple dolphins. Another permit to import six dolphins captured Lota the elephant has endured a miserable life in captivity for nearly fifty years, and it's time for her to be given sanctuary. Lota, who was born in the wild, was captured in 1954. In 1990, the Hawthorn Corporation got Lota from the Milwaukee Zoo when it no longer wanted her. The Hawthorne Corporation Read More… Save Lota The Elephant From Circus Abuse |
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