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June
1998
- 6/30/98 4:13 PM
Human Rights Campaign:
Poll Suggests Recent Republican Onslaught
Against Gays Could Alienate Swing Voters, According to HRC
- 6/30/98 1:27 PM
Council For A Livable World:
New Report Published Criticizing Ballistic
Missile Defense
- 6/30/98 10:07 AM
21st Century League:
Estimated 40,000 Philadelphia Families
at Risk of Losing Welfare Payments In Nine Months, Civic Group Reports
- 6/30/98 9:31 AM
Violence Policy Center:
Product Liability Bill Would Block
Lawsuits Against Firearms Industry By Gun Victims
- 6/30/98 8:22 AM
Amnesty International Et Al:
International Campaign Launched Against
The Use Of Child Soldiers
- 6/29/98 4:06 PM
World Wildlife Fund:
WWF Calls for Early Phase out of Dangerous
Chemicals As Historic Treaty Talks Begin for 100+ Nations
- 6/29/98 4:00 PM
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids:
Tobacco Free Kids Files FEC Complaint
Against Tobacco Industry
- 6/29/98 2:01 PM
Greenpeace USA:
Greenpeace Vigil At Start Of Montreal
Negotiations Sends Message Of Hope For A Toxic Free Future
- 6/28/98 7:09 PM
Human Rights Watch:
China: Good Job, President Clinton
- Now Follow It Up
- 6/26/98 6:06 PM
National Organization for Women:
NOW Applauds Today's Supreme Court
Rulings; Questions Court's Concept Of 'Reasonable' And 'Economic Harm'; Calls
On Employers To Take Pro-Active Steps
- 6/26/98 4:19 PM
National Organization for Women:
NOW Conference Celebrates 150 Years
Of Feminism; Develops Vision For Equality
- 6/26/98 11:00 AM
Center for Public Integrity:
Study of Politics of Pesticides to
be Released June 30 by Center for Public Integrity
- 6/25/98 4:30 PM
Greenpeace USA:
Greenpeace Report Shows Toxic Pollution
Knows No Boundaries
- 6/25/98 12:15 PM
Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
Termination Of New York Teacher For
Praying With Students Was Justified, Says Americans United; Recalcitrant Teacher
Vowed To Break The Law Again
- 6/25/98 11:07 AM
Human Rights Campaign:
Four Republicans Offer Amendment To
Overturn Clinton Administration's Executive Order Banning Discrimination Based
On Sexual Orientation; Barrage Of Attacks Against Gay Americans Intensifies As
Extreme Right's Grip On GOP Leadership Tightens
- 6/24/98 7:00 PM
Families USA:
Consumer Group Labels Health Care Announcement
"Ballot Box Protections"
- 6/24/98 6:50 PM
National Environmental Trust:
Enviros Urge Governors Not
To Endorse Industry Effort To Roll Back Strong Smog Standards; E-mail Shows Industry
Lobbyist Helping Coordinate Efforts Of Governors
- 6/24/98 6:20 PM
Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
TV Preacher Pat Robertson Expands On
'Gay Days' Comments; Suggests Fires In Florida May Have Divine Origin
- 6/24/98 5:45 PM
NAACP:
Mfume Releases Report Card On Senate,
House; NAACP Mobilizes Grassroots Campaign
- 6/24/98 4:51 PM
National Organization for Women:
NOW Takes On Anti-Feminist Wisconsin
Governor
- 6/24/98 4:49 PM
Public Citizen:
Pilots Win Free Speech Suit; American
Airlines Accepts Rules Protecting Dissident Communication in the Workplace
- 6/24/98 4:12 PM
2030 Center:
Youth Groups Oppose Privatization of
Social Security
- 6/23/98 5:49 PM
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union:
UFCW to Convene in Chicago July 27-31
- 6/23/98 5:25 PM
National Organization for Women:
NOW Mobilizes Opposition To Teen Endangerment
Act; Urges President Clinton To Speak Out Against Dangerous Bill
- 6/23/98 4:35 PM
National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice:
Religious Leaders Speak Out for Human
Rights in U.S. Workplace
- 6/23/98 3:00 PM
Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project:
Nader, Wellstone, Hightower And Grassroots
Groups Launch Nationwide Campaign to Protect Consumers, Environment as Utilities
Deregulate
- 6/23/98 2:14pm
League of Conservation Voters:
Conservation Group Pegs Anti-Environment
Congressional Candidates For Defeat
- 6/23/98 11:59 AM
American Lung Association:
American Lung Association Warns of
'Terrible Summer of Smog'
- 6/22/98 6:02 PM
National Organization for Women:
NOW Denounces Supreme Court's
Giant Leap Backwards On Sexual Harassment; Calls On Congress To Take Action
- 6/22/98 6:01 PM
National Organization for Women:
NOW To Face-Off With Wisconsin's Governor
Wednesday
- 6/22/98 3:20 PM
Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
Statement Of The Rev. Barry W. Lynn
On The Supreme Court's Rejection Of Alabama's Gov. Fob James' States' Rights
Plea
- 6/22/98 2:40 PM
American Civil Liberties Union:
Trial Begins Today in ACLU Challenge
To New Mexico Internet Censorship Law
- 6/22/98 12:32 PM
Zero Population Growth:
Groups Expose 'Real Political Sex Scandal',
Call for Contraceptive Coverage
- 6/22/98 12:05 PM
Human Rights Campaign:
Senator Don Nickles' Comments Confirm
Discrimination Holding Up Hormel Vote
- 6/22/98 9:45 AM
Amnesty International:
China: Harassment Of Dissidents Continues
In Run Up To Summit
- 6/22/98 9:44 AM
League of Conservation Voters:
Conservationists to Unveil 1998 'Dirty
Dozen' Targets
- 6/21/98 4:31 PM
Handgun Control:
Sarah Brady Statement on Justice Dept.
Report on Brady Law Success
- 6/19/98 11:06 AM
American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU Responds to Family Research Council
Attack on James C. Hormel's Giving to the ACLU
- 6/19/98 9:40 AM
The Brennan Center for Justice:
Former ACLU Leaders Break
From ACLU Position on Constitutionality of Campaign Finance Reform
- 6/18/98 1:46 PM
FAIR - Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
New Study Challenges "Liberal
Media" Claim: On Economics, Journalists More Conservative Than Public
- 6/18/98 1:12 PM
Human Rights Campaign:
Senator Alfonse D'Amato Implores Trent
Lott To Schedule Vote For Ambassadorial Nominee James Hormel In Strongly Worded
Letter
- 6/18/98 12:33 PM
INFACT:
Congress Knuckles Under to Philip Morris
and RJR Nabisco; INFACT Launches Boycott Expansion
- 6/18/98 11:18 AM
Planned Parenthood:
Lowey Amendment Providing Contraceptive
Coverage To Federal Employees "Just Makes Sense"
- 6/18/98 11:09 AM
Families USA:
Consumer Group Warns That Patient Protection
Legislation Could Suffer Same Fate As Tobacco Bill; Industry Lobbying and Million
Dollar Advertising Campaign Could Kill Bipartisan Legislation
- 6/18/98 10:49 AM
Environmental Defense Fund:
Toxics Release Inventory Shows Need
For Pollution Prevention
- 6/17/98 6:48pm
Public Citizen:
Watch the Money, See the Votes: Republican
Leadership Tries to Kill National Tobacco Control Legislation
- 6/17/98 1:00 PM
United Auto Workers:
UAW Statement Regarding Talks at Locals
659 and 651
- 6/17/98 12:22 PM
Greenpeace
Greenpeace Publishes New Memos Revealing
Mattel, Exxon And US Government Attempts To Undermine PVC Toys Debate
- 6/17/98 12:02 PM
People for the American Way:
Don't Send Freedom Up In Smoke: PFAW
Urges "No" Vote on Flag Amendment
- 6/17/98 11:05 AM
Human Rights Watch:
Human Rights Watch Disappointed In
U.S. Position On International Court
- 6/17/98 11:05 AM
Public Campaign:
Betcha Can't Eat Just One!: Public
Campaign Sends Congress Over 10,000 Potato Chips… And A Message On Money
In Politics
- 6/17/98 10:32 AM
Union of Concerned Scientists:
New Report Finds Nuclear Plant Safety
Eroded By Incompetence; Public Health May Be At Greater Risk Than Believed
- 6/16/98 11:47 AM
Public Citizen:
Doctors Sanctioned for Sex
Offenses Still Practicing
- 6/12/98 6:32 PM
Death Penalty Information Center:
Execution Looms Even As State Admits
Guilt 'Highly Improbable'; Henry Lee Lucas Scheduled for Execution in Texas on
June 30 Despite Exculpatory Investigation by Atty General's Office
- 6/12/98 10:02 AM
NARAL:
Wisconsin Judge Rules Again:
So-Called "Partial-Birth" Abortion Ban Remains in Effect
- 6/11/98 8:00 PM
United Auto Workers:
UAW Strikes at Delphi East in Flint,
Michigan
- 6/11/98 9:30 AM
Public Interest Research Group:
Public Playgrounds Place Children At
Risk: CFA/PIRG Release National Survey
- 6/10/98 11:51 AM
Center for Science in the Public Interest:
Olestra: CSPI Protests Deceptive Labeling
And Advertising; Warns Of Health Risks From Fake Fat
- 6/10/98 11:18 AM
The Interfaith Alliance:
Southern Baptist Convention Taking
Faith Community in Wrong Direction; Baptist Leader Outraged By Recent Adoption
Of SBC Faith And Message Statement
- 6/9/98 3:45 PM
Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
Rainbow Flags May Bring Hurricane
To Orlando — And Maybe A Meteor, Warns TV Preacher Pat Robertson
- 6/9/98 1:01 PM
Environmental Working Group:
Hospitals Need "Green" Overhaul:
Survey Finds Medical Waste Burners Contaminate Baby Food With Dioxins, Fish With
Mercury
- 6/9/98 10:00 AM
National Environmental Trust:
Clinton/Gore Administration Retreats
From Kyoto Global Warming Treaty Promises In Bonn Talks; Seeks To Cut Global Warming
Pollution Abroad, But Not Here
- 6/8/98 2:40 PM
Handgun Control:
NRA Bravado Masks Legislative Impotence:
Charlton Heston’s Revival Of "I AM the NRA" Ad Campaign Attempts
To Disguise The Gun Group’s Extremism
- 6/8/98 12:08 PM
Rainforest Action Network:
Abacha's Death Is An Opportunity To
Bolster Environment And Human Rights In Nigeria: No Tears For Dictator Who Valued
Oil More Than The Blood Of His Citizens
- 6/4/98 10:54 AM
American Civil Liberties Union:
ACLU Says New Report Raises
Questions of Fairness About Death Penalty
- 6/3/98 11:09 AM
AFL-CIO:
Statement by John J. Sweeney,
President, AFL-CIO On Defeat Of California Proposition 226
- 6/3/98 10:27 AM
Union of Concerned Scientists:
Military, Intelligence, And
Scientific Leaders Call For Action On Test Ban Treaty, Counter Majority Leader
Lott
...the birth of Common Dreams NewsWire - June 1, 1998.
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