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March
1999
- 3/31/99 2:52 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Analysts Scrutinize NATO Bombing
- 3/31/99 1:14 PM
Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
Federal Court Upholds Revocation Of
Tax Exemption Of New York Church For Partisan Politicking; Watchdog Group That
Reported Church To IRS Applauds Landmark Ruling
- 3/31/99 9:28 AM
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney:
U.S. Is Saddam-izing Milosevic; McKinney
Decries Lack Of Vision In US Bombing Diplomacy
- 3/30/99 5:15 PM
Doctors Without Borders:
Doctors Without Borders Evacuates
From Kosovo
- 3/30/99 3:50 PM
The Interfaith Alliance:
Walter Cronkite to Present Faith and
Freedom Award April 9
- 3/30/99 1:26 PM
Center for Responsive Politics:
Capital Eye Reveals Big Donors To
Democratic Legislative Committee State PACS; CRP Newsletter Also Ranks Big League
Sport Donors; Follows the Money Flowing to Lamar Alexander's PACs
- 3/30/99 11:15 AM
Greenpeace:
Mauritius Government Commits To Ending
Pirate Port Days
- 3/30/99 10:32 AM
Council for a Livable World:
Six In A Row: Star Wars Fails Test
Again; Congress, President Called On To Reconsider Missile Defense Deployment
Bill
- 3/30/99 9:13 AM
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney:
Six Days Of Bombing And Still No Peace
- 3/29/99 7:21 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
New Sources
On Bombing Of Yugoslavia
- 3/29/99 4:28 PM
Peace Action:
National
Peace Action Statement on the NATO Bombing in Yugoslavia
- 3/29/99 1:14 PM
Greenpeace:
Japan Frees Greenpeace Volunteers
- 3/29/99 12:19 PM
National Organization for Women:
NOW Launches Women-Friendly Workplace
Campaign's Fortune 500 Project
- 3/29/99 10:00 AM
National Committee on Pay Equity:
National Committee on Pay Equity
Available to Discuss Wage Gap
- 3/26/99 3:37 PM
Human Rights Watch:
Human Rights Watch Praise President
Clinton's Decision On China
- 3/26/99 3:06 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sources On Bombing Of Yugoslavia
- 3/26/99 1:03 PM
Human Rights Watch:
Kosovo Human Rights Flash: Human
Rights Lawyer, Two Sons Found Shot To Death
- 3/26/99 10:18 AM
Amnesty International:
Pinochet Case: One Person Tortured
Is One Too Many
- 3/26/99 9:02 AM
Worldwatch Institute:
Destructive Storms Drive Insurance
Losses Up. Will Taxpayers Have to Bail Out Insurance Industry?
- 3/25/99 5:17 PM
Human Rights Campaign:
Maryland House of Delegates Passes
Anti-Discrimination Bill With Major Push From Governor Parris Glendening
- 3/25/99 3:33 PM
Environmental Defense Fund:
World's Largest Lending Agencies Finance
Environmental Destruction, Widespread Corruption 37 International Groups Launch
Campaign To Reform Export Credit Agencies
- 3/25/99 2:58 PM
Amnesty International:
Yugoslavia: State of Emergency
Does Not Suspend Responsibility To Protect Human Rights
- 3/25/99 11:41 AM
Center for Science in the Public Interest:
FDA Urged to Improve Regulation of
"Functional Foods"
- 3/25/99 8:00 AM
FAIR - Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting:
FAIR Says ABC Erased Protesters
From The Oscar Picture
- 3/24/99 7:13 PM
Pax Christi USA:
Pax Christi USA Opposes NATO Airstrikes;
Supports Reinstallation of International Monitors
- 3/24/99 6:01 PM
American Friends Service Committee:
American Friends Service Committee
Statement on Military Strikes In Kosovo
- 3/24/99 5:11 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
As Missiles Hit Yugoslavia, Interviews
Available
- 3/24/99 12:01 PM
US Public Interest Research Group:
Ten Years After the Exxon Valdez
Big Oil Continues to Plague Prince William Sound and the Arctic
- 3/24/99 11:35 AM
Handgun Control Inc:
Sarah Brady Joins Members Of Congress
To Introduce Children's Gun Violence Prevention Act of 1999
- 3/24/99 10:17 AM
Human Rights Watch:
Rejection Of Pinochet Immunity Praised;
But Rights Group Criticizes Narrow Scope of Decision
- 3/24/99 9:15 AM
Public Campaign:
Public Campaign Warns Against Increasing
Flow Of Private Money and Special Interest Influence: Calls Such Proposals 'Deform'
Not Reform
- 3/23/99 7:20 PM
Fellowship of Reconciliation:
The FOR Opposes Bombing and Calls
for the Arrest of Slobodan Milosevic
- 3/23/99 5:10 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Interviews Available On Kosovo
- 3/23/99 3:49 PM
Greenpeace:
Greenpeace Occupies Oil Tanker In
San Francisco Bay, Warning That Global Warming Is The Next Oil Disaster
- 3/23/99 2:01 PM
Amnesty International:
Amnesty International letter to all
parties involved in the Kosovo conflict
- 3/23/99 11:49 AM
International Action Center:
No U.S./NATO Bombing! NO Army Of Occupation!
"Day After" Demonstrations in NYC, Washington DC, San Francisco and
other cities
- 3/23/99 10:41 AM
American Civil Liberties Union:
Veterans Urge House To Stop Attack
on the Bill of Rights
- 3/22/99 3:50 PM
Sustainable Energy Coalition:
Coalition: 20 Years After Three Mile
Island, Most Americans Believe Another Accident is Likely,
Most Oppose New Reactors
- 3/22/99 2:48 PM
Senator Paul Wellstone:
Johnson and Wellstone, Congressional
Coalition Veterans and Union Leaders To Hold News Conference: Announce Push for
Funds to Meet Veterans' Health Care Needs
- 3/22/99 2:29 PM
Union of Concerned Scientists:
Report: Lessons from Three Mile Island
Forgotten, Ignored
- 3/22/99 11:27 AM
Congressman Tony Hall:
Rep. Tony Hall to Release Results
of Nationwide Survey on Food Banks
- 3/22/99 11:01 AM
Handgun Control:
Sarah Brady, Gun/Alcohol Experts Decry
Anheuser-Busch Support For Carrying Concealed Weapons In Missouri
- 3/19/99 8:00 AM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Missile Defense?
- 3/18/99 4:39 PM
Human Rights Campaign:
HRC Says McCaffrey's Position On Medical
Marijuana Study Directly Contradicts His Position On Needle Exchange Programs
- 3/18/99 1:44 PM
Greenpeace:
Mauritius Finds Toothfish Onboard
Pirate Ship Chased By Greenpeace For 16 Days
- 3/18/99 10:32 AM
Greenpeace USA:
From Climbing Oil Rigs to Climbing
The Corporate Ladder: Greenpeace Buys BP Amoco's Shares Instead Of Company's Climate
Change Rhetoric
- 3/17/99 3:35 PM
Council for a Livable World:
Statement On Senate Action: "Star
Wars" Bill: Symbolism At Its Worst; Meaningless Amendments Provide Political
Cover
- 3/17/99 12:34 PM
Greenpeace USA:
Brazil Poised to Control Market for
GM-Free Soybeans
- 3/17/99 11:01 AM
Environmental Defense Fund:
Amazon Grassroots Leaders Blast IMF
Loan Package for Brazil
- 3/17/99 10:39 AM
War Resisters League:
Speaking Tour on Plight of Iraqi People
under UN Sanctions Arrives in New York City
- 3/17/99 10:14 AM
Greenpeace:
Greenpeace Welcomes Major Global Steps
To Get Out Genetically Modified Food
- 3/17/99 10:00 AM
US Public Interest Research Group:
Study Finds New SUV Rules Could
Cut Over 1.2 Million Tons Of Smog-Forming Pollution; U.S. PIRG Calls on Auto Makers
to Clean Up Their Act
- 3/17/99 9:08 AM
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids:
Al Franken to Serve as Emcee of 1999
TFK Youth Advocates of the Year Awards Celebration
- 3/17/99 8:49 AM
League of Women Voters:
League of Women Voters Unveils New
Wetlands Website
- 3/17/99 8:00 AM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Is The Heritage Foundation Credible?
- 3/16/99 5:44 PM
Public Citizen:
Breaux-Thomas Medicare Plan: Subsidies
for Drug Firms and HMOs; Cutbacks and Cost Hikes for Patients and Taxpayers; Consumer
Group Calls for Price Caps on Prescription Drugs Purchased Under Medicare
- 3/16/99 4:23 PM
Bread for the World:
Clinton Debt Relief Initiative a Significant
First Step
- 3/16/99 3:53 PM
Alliance for Democracy:
AFD Announces Third National Convention
- April 29 - May 3, 1999 - Ending The Corporate Century And Launching The People's
Millennium
- 3/16/99 12:45 PM
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
Administrative and Other Costs Consume
More Than 40 Percent of Included Accounts in the United Kingdom New Study Finds
- 3/16/99 12:29 PM
Violence Policy Center:
VPC Hails Schumer Bill to Prevent
Internet From Becoming "On-Line Arms Bazaar"
- 3/16/99 12:15 PM
National Organization for Women:
Congress Are You Listening?
- 3/16/99 8:00 AM
American Forests:
Dramatic Tree Loss in Chesapeake Bay,
Baltimore-Washington Areas Blamed on Urban Sprawl; Study Estimates Cost to Region's
Economy at More than $1 Billion
- 3/15/99 7:21 PM
Rainforest Action Network:
Enviros to Tell Home Depot to "Go
Green" for St. Patrick's Day at over 150 U.S., Canada Locations; Grassroots Groundswell
to Protect Old Growth Forests is Largest of its Kind
- 3/15/99 4:37 PM
Sierra Club:
Sierra Club Supports Scientists'
Recommendation to Manage National Forests "Sustainably"
- 3/12/99 8:05 PM
East Timor Action Network:
Statement by the East Timor Action
Network on the UN Agreement on East Timor
- 3/12/99 4:52 PM
Bread for the World:
Debt Relief For The World's Poorest
Countries; Reps. Leach And LaFalce Unite In Calling For End To Unpayable Debt
- 3/12/99 4:31 PM
Greenpeace:
Greenpeace Calls On Mauritius Government
To Seize Pirate Fishing Vessel
- 3/12/99 2:01 PM
Consumers Union:
Consumers Union Summary and Statement
on the March 31, 1999 End of Cable Industry Regulation
- 3/12/99 12:05 PM
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
to Hold Press Conference on Social Security Reform
- 3/12/99 10:59 AM
World Wildlife Fund:
WWF Conference to Focus on Threats
to Southeastern Rivers: Experts Gather in Chattanooga to Discuss Conservation
Blueprint for One of World's Richest Ecosystems
- 3/12/99 10:30 AM
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network:
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
to Release Fifth Annual Report on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue'
- 3/12/99 9:00 AM
Transnational Resource & Action Center:
Key United Nations Agency Solicits
Funds From Corporations; Corporate Watchdog Leaks UN Plan
- 3/12/99 7:00 AM
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy:
NCRP Releases Report on Conservative
Think Tanks in the 1990s
- 3/11/99 5:35 PM
Human Rights Campaign:
Introduction Of Hate Crimes Prevention
Act Announced At Capitol Hill Press Conference; Hate Crimes Legislation Follows
Aftermath of Brutal Slayings Across Nation
- 3/11/99 2:26 PM
Rainforest Action Network:
Home Depot Missed The Boat With Eco-Wood
Strategy; Protests Scheduled At Stores Across US, Canada On Saint Patrick's Day
- 3/11/99 12:32 PM
Union of Concerned Scientists:
UCS Press Luncheon to Mark Three Mile
Island Anniversary
- 3/11/99 9:40 AM
Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
Christian Coalition 'Get Out The Vote'
Project Is Desperate Attempt To Regain Momentum, Says Americans United
- 3/10/99 6:52 PM
Public Citizen:
Consumer
Group Attacks Medicare Commission Member's Conflict of Interest; Deborah Steelman
Paid Nearly $3 Million by Health Industry Interests
- 3/10/99 5:08 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
With Clinton
In Guatemala; Analysts Available For Interviews
- 3/10/99 12:46 PM
Council for a Livable World:
Heritage Foundation Joins The Sweepstakes:
Hardly Any Money To Enter -- Missile Defense Is The Prize
- 3/9/99 11:31 PM
INFACT:
Breakup of RJR Nabisco is Significant
Victory For INFACT's Tobacco Industry Campaign and Boycott
- 3/9/99 8:04 PM
National Council of Women's Organizations:
Women's Organizations Host Women's
Equality Summit; Hillary Rodham Clinton to Speak
- 3/9/99 6:35 PM
Commercial Alert:
Nader Criticizes Wells Fargo's ATM
Captive-Customer Ads, High Fees
- 3/9/99 4:20 PM
Rural Advancement Foundation International:
Monsanto - Handled with Care?... or,
CARE - Handled by Monsanto?; Major US Relief Agency Holds Talks With Troubled
Agbiotech Multinational - Who's Helping Who?
- 3/9/99 2:39 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
As Welfare Ends, Overlooked Issues
Arise
- 3/9/99 12:14 PM
Environmental Defense Fund:
Final Federal Plan Won't End Pollution
From Factory Farms, Says EDF; Plan Perpetuates Widespread Use of Polluting Waste
Technologies
- 3/9/99 12:07 PM
East Timor Action Network:
Press Briefing on East Timor
- 3/9/99 11:50 AM
Center for Science in the Public Interest:
FDA Should Ban the Use of Certain
Antibiotics to Fatten Farm Animals, Groups Ask; Farm Use of Antibiotics Squanders
Precious Drugs
- 3/9/99 10:45 AM
Environmental Defense Fund:
Agricultural Use of Antibiotics Poses
Major Public Health Threat; Environmental Defense Fund & Others Petition FDA
On Growing Problem Of Antibiotic Resistance
- 3/8/99 7:14 PM
Sierra Club:
Clinton Proposal To Curb Big Pig Pollution
"A Mixed Bag"; Strategy for Cleaner Factory Farms Takes Small Steps to Protect
Streams and Drinking Water, Holds Owners Responsible for Manure Spills
- 3/8/99 3:12 PM
Greenpeace USA:
Environmentalists Endorse 1999 Shareholder
Resolutions
- 3/8/99 12:55 PM
Preamble Center:
Press Breakfast With Authors Of "Social
Security: The Phony Crisis"
- 3/8/99 9:00 AM
American Rivers:
Nation's Ten Most Endangered Rivers
to be Announced April 12; Press Conference to be Held Around the Country
- 3/7/99 8:32 PM
International Action Center:
Three U.S. Activists Killed In Colombia:
"Their Deaths Must Not Serve The Pentagon's War Plans"
- 3/6/99 10:17 PM
U'wa Defense Working Group:
On the Murders of Three American Activists
in Colombia
- 3/5/99 3:22 PM
Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
Americans United Calls On Virginia
Governor To Rescind TV Preacher Pat Robertson's Appointment To State Business
Board; Robertson Is Under Investigation For Alleged Unethical Business Practices
- 3/5/99 2:49 PM
Environmental Defense Fund:
Court Rules Roads Must Comply With
Clean Air Plans; Ruling Will Curb Road Funds And Protect Public Health In A Dozen
US Metropolitan Areas
- 3/5/99 1:15 PM
Rainforest Action Network:
Actor Ted Danson To Join Alaska Truth
Squad For Seattle Press Conference
- 3/4/99 6:18PM
Greenpeace USA:
Greenpeace Toxic Patrol Highlights
Threats From Louisiana's Vinyl Industry
- 3/4/99 2:34 PM
Campaign for America's Future:
HOPE for Africa: The New Direction
in Trade
- 3/4/99 2:20 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Albright In Indonesia: Analysts Available
- 3/4/99 2:18 PM
Ozone Action:
"Credit for Early Action"
Act Will Serve Neither The Interests Of The Environment Nor The Economy
- 3/4/99 12:34 PM
Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
Statement On Death Of Justice Harry
A. Blackmun; Nation Will Miss 'Great Advocate Of Church-State Separation And Freedom
Of Conscience,' Says AU Leader
- 3/4/99 10:56 AM
American Civil Liberties Union:
ACLU Calls for 'Reality Check' As
Another Internet Censorship Bill Is Introduced
- 3/4/99 10:18 AM
World Wildlife Fund:
Global Warming: Early Action Bill
Heads the Right Way on the Wrong Road
- 3/4/99 7:00 AM
Amnesty International:
Rough Justice For Women Behind US
Bars
- 3/3/99 4:54 PM
East Timor Action Network:
Gusmao To Ask Albright To Stop US
Military Aid To Indonesia; Also Asks US To Pressure Indonesia To Withdraw Military
Intelligence From East Timor
- 3/3/99 4:30 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
National Priorities: Other Views
- 3/3/99 4:10 PM
Physicians for Social Responsibility:
Prime Minister of India Declares Continued
Commitment to Nuclear Weapons; Abolition Plea by International Delegation of Physicians
Fails to Persuade Prime Minister and Defense Minister of India
- 3/3/99 8:18 AM
Greenpeace:
Pirate Fishers Wearing Balaclavas
To Conceal Their Identities Throw Rocks At Greenpeace Activists
- 3/2/99 6:53 PM
War Resisters League:
IRS Takes Tax Resister to Court -
Pacifists Take to the Streets! Brooklyn Protest Against Militarism
- 3/2/99 6:31 PM
Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
Ten Commandments Display To Be Removed
From Courthouse In Lumpkin County, Georgia; County Heeds Legal Warnings, Avoids
Church-State Lawsuit
- 3/2/99 5:58 PM
American Friends Service Committee:
American Friends Service Committee
Nominates Death Penalty Activist for Noble Peace Prize
- 3/2/99 3:08 PM
Handgun Control:
Gun Industry, NRA Close Ranks, Says
Handgun Control Inc
- 3/2/99 8:56 AM
Amnesty International:
New Amnesty International Report Documents
Abuse of Women Inmates In US Prisons
- 3/1/99 11:44 AM
Public Citizen:
Public Citizen Releases Worst Pills,
Best Pills; New Consumer's Guide Helps Patients Navigate Drug Minefield
- 3/1/99 9:00 AM
Human Rights Watch:
Historic Landmine Ban Treaty Takes
Effect; U.S. Plans for New Mine System Criticized
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