In August, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) succeeded in amending H.R. 1900, the Juvenile Crime Control and Delinquency Prevention Act of[…]
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Polar Bears Suffering In Carribean Heat
For polar bears, who normally swim up to sixty miles a day and roam across thousands of miles of ice[…]
Read moreThe Question Of Judging
Recently it came up again. The question of judging others or the question of how we might keep from being[…]
Read moreThe NAACP Says Its Work Goes On
Julian Bond, NAACP Chairman of the Board, recently said that the NAACP’s work for freedom and justice must continue in[…]
Read moreNAACP Hails End Of 30-Year Battle For Low-Income Homes In New Jersey
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)on September 7th hailed the end of a 30-year battle to[…]
Read moreN. C. Environmental Defense Praises Clean Smokestacks Bill
On September 4th, North Carolina Environmental Defense praised members of the N.C. General Assembly for reaching a compromise on the[…]
Read moreViolence at Home
By Ingrid Newkirk Is it a coincidence that, in the wake of the attacks on Washington and New York, most[…]
Read moreTerror en Terra – Mixed Messages in the Eye of the Storm
Returning to Manhattan a few days following the atrocity that took place at the World Trade Center, I found myself[…]
Read moreAnimal Protection Groups File Suit over Bureau of Land Management’s Plan to Manage Wild Horses and Burros to Extinction
The Fund for Animals, Animal Legal Defense Fund, and several individuals recently filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land[…]
Read moreAsk Your Members of Congress to Support the Captive Exotic Animal Protection Act
The Captive Exotic Animal Protection Act, sponsored by U.S. Senator Joe Biden, will ban the interstate sale or transport of[…]
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