Entries tagged with "petitions"
Take Action to Prevent Recession
January 22, 2008
Democratic leaders will be meeting with President Bush this week to negotiate an emergency economic stimulus package, and they're under pressure to accept the president's priorities. Bush's proposal gives little or no help to people who make less than $40,000 a year, but those are the very folks who need help ...
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Tell Burger King to Support Fair Rights for Farmworkers
January 18, 2008
Farmworkers who pick tomatoes for the fast food industry are among this country’s most exploited workers: subpoverty wages, no right to form unions, no benefits of any kind. Burger King can join other fast food chains in making a huge difference in the lives of these workers in its supply chain ...
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24 Helicopters for Darfur
January 10, 2008
On December 31, a hybrid United Nations-African Union command officially took control of the peacekeeping mission for Darfur.But the mission is already in danger of failing. Few new peacekeepers have actually been deployed because of obstructions by the Sudanese regime, and world leaders aren't providing critical equipment essential to the ...
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Time for Bioenergy to Get Smart
January 7, 2008
Bioenergy -- electricity and fuels derived from materials such as corn, soybeans, and grasses -- can be part of the solution to America's energy and environmental needs. But it must be produced in a way that protects our air, soil and water and generates the lowest amount of global warming ...
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Help End the Writer’s Strike!
January 6, 2008
"Twelve thousand entertainment writers have been on strike since early November.Right now, writers get nothing when their content is streamed on the Internet by the networks - even if it's written exclusively for online audiences - and the studios want to keep it that way.It's estimated that the companies ...
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Stop Japanese from Killing More Whales
January 3, 2008
The Japanese government attempts to defend its whaling program by calling it "scientific" whaling.In reality, this deadly program is nothing more than unlawful commercial whaling in disguise. We don't need to kill whales to study them in the 21st century. More than 30,000 whales have been killed since ...
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Care2.com
Click here to visit Care2. Care2 is a website that I've been going to for ages - at least six years now.Care2 represents aid for the environment, health, human welfare, animals, education, women, and more.
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