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31 May 2007

Bush's sanctions on Sudan: We need to do more - and you can help

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We learned earlier this week that Bush is going to impose some new sanctions on Sudan to increase the pressure for an end to the ongoing vi...
30 May 2007

Supreme Court rules in favor of pay discrimination

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled against a Goodyear employee who earned considerably less than her male counterparts. Their justificatio...
29 May 2007

Cast your vote for the worst offenders in the Corporate Hall of Shame

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All companies have a responsibility to respect human rights in their operations. But how many really do? Corporate Accountability Internatio...
28 May 2007

On Memorial Day in a time of war

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Today Americans celebrate Memorial Day , a holiday created to honor the men and women who have died in military service to this country. War...
27 May 2007

Irony: White House considering 2008 troop withdrawals

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According to an article in yesterday's New York Times , "[t]he Bush administration is developing what are described as concepts fo...
26 May 2007

Tell the G8 to keep its promises on AIDS, poverty, health, and education

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My organization Amnesty International USA is joining forces with ally organizations in the U.S. and around the world (including Bono's ...
25 May 2007

Just another rubber-stamp Congress?

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Last November, the American people spoke. We were tired of the direction in which this country was going with Bush and Cheney in the White ...
24 May 2007

E-mail your Senators: Support Sen. Harkin's new bill to close Gitmo

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The U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay is a glaring symbol of the Bush administration's human rights abuses in the name of the ...
23 May 2007

Amnesty's Annual Report 2007: Politics of fear creating a dangerously divided world

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Today, the Nobel-Prize-winning human rights group Amnesty International (AI) released its annual report on the state of human rights around ...
22 May 2007

Despite global warming, people are polluting more than ever

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At this point, the scientific community pretty much concurs that global warming is real , and that the consequences could be devastating . N...
21 May 2007

The HPV vaccine war continues

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Ever since the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was approved last year by the FDA, it's been at the center of a lot of sanctimonious ...
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20 May 2007

Is California's new "pain-free" lethal injection protocol even less humane?

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Lethal injection as a method of execution has been under fire lately due to evidence that it doesn't always work as expected, and can c...
18 May 2007

Mark Fiore: Axis of Uh-Oh

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In his latest animation, political cartoonist Mark Fiore takes an amusing look at the hypocrisies and absurdities in the Bush administration...
17 May 2007

Suddenly we need a "War Czar"?

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Earlier this week, George W. Bush created a new official U.S. government position: " War Czar " Huh? This nation has gotten along...
16 May 2007

Jewish Navy vet says chaplains used high-pressure methods to convert him to Christianity

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The Founding Fathers of the United States of America deliberately wrote a clause into the First Amendment that would form a wall of separa...
15 May 2007

Lou Dobbs incorrectly asserts that immigrants are bringing leprosy into the U.S.

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Watch out, your nose might fall off. Or worse. At least that's what CNN's Lou Dobbs would like you to think if we don't do mor...
14 May 2007

Iraqi parliament wants U.S. out

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On May 1, Bush vetoed the Iraq spending bill because it called for timelines to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. Then, a few days ago, the W...
13 May 2007

Speak out against Bush's Iraq policy and lose your job at CBS

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General John Batiste resigned from the U.S. Army in protest of the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war. He was serving as a c...

On Mother's Day, tell Congress to support children's health

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Today is Mother's Day in the U.S. On this occasion, please join me in taking the following action from the Save the Children Federatio...
12 May 2007

Have we reached a real turning point on the Iraq issue?

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I'm not a big fan of the war in Iraq. I was against it from the start. We attacked an unarmed country that posed no threat to us. We ...
11 May 2007

Mark Fiore: Pentagon Film Fest

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In his latest animation, political cartoonist Mark Fiore takes an amusing look at how the Bush administration and the Pentagon have been spi...
10 May 2007

More dead babies in Iraq

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More than four years ago, George W. Bush invaded Iraq, telling us that he was going to liberate the Iraqi people. Would someone please give ...
09 May 2007

Tell Fidelity: Divest for Darfur

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A divestment campaign is well under way to cut off funding for the crisis in Darfur , in which hundreds of thousands of civilians have been...
08 May 2007

More U.S. health care woes: Self-employed struggle to get insurance

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There's no question that we've got a health care crisis here in the U.S. The U.S. placed 37th in the World Health Organization's...
06 May 2007

CREW: Feds rejected million$ in foreign aid after Katrina

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I received an interesting report this past week from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) . Apparently, that organiza...
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05 May 2007

U.S. turns further away from human rights

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Remember when the U.S. was considered a beacon of human rights? Remember how the U.S. led the way in establishing the Universal Declaratio...
04 May 2007

Kent State: Thoughts on a sad anniversary

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Today, May 4, marks the 37th anniversary of the Kent State massacre . On this date in 1970, four Kent State University students were killed...
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03 May 2007

Take action on World Press Freedom Day

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Today, May 3, is World Press Freedom Day . Even in the 21st century, governments around the world are violating the right of journalists to ...

Mark Fiore: Veto Accomplished

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George W. Bush used his veto power on Tuesday to reject funding for the troops because the bill would eventually let the troops come home. ...
01 May 2007

Workers around the world are being threatened, harassed, and even killed for standing up for their basic rights

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Today, May 1, is International Workers Day. Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states the following: ----- (1) Everyon...