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November
1998
- 11/30/98 5:14 PM
National Association of Letter Carriers:
Unions to File Complaint Against
Canada for Labor Violations Under NAFTA Agreement
- 11/30/98 2:36 PM
Human Rights Watch:
Rights Guarantees Should Be In All
Israeli, Palestinian Agreements
- 11/30/98 12:18 PM
Handgun Control:
Brady Law Waiting Period Expires
Today: Public Safety At Risk
- No releases received over
Thanksgiving weekend
- 11/25/98 3:57 PM
Human Rights Watch:
U.S. ‘Neutrality’ on Pinochet
Blasted
- 11/25/98 1:42 PM
Sierra Club:
Sierra Club Calls Pork Bailout
A Classic Case Of Corporate Welfare
- 11/25/98 1:32 PM
Amnesty International:
Pinochet Ruling: An Historic Step
Towards Ending Impunity
- 11/25/98 12:25 PM
Sierra Club:
Sierra Club Asks GAP, Inc's Fisher
Family To Stop Destroying Redwood Forest
- 11/25/98 12:10 PM
Amnesty International:
Maine Youth Center Report Leaves
Children's Voices Still Unheard
- 11/25/98 11:32 AM
Greenpeace International:
Greenpeace Locates Burning
Japanese Whaling Ship - First Year Without Antarctic Whale Hunting Since 1904?
- 11/25/98 10:01 AM
Human Rights Watch:
House of Lords' Decision on Pinochet
Hailed; Rights Group Calls on U.K. Government to Extradite
- 11/24/98 8:45 PM
National Organization for Women:
NOW President Patricia Ireland Applauds
the Demise of Florida's Abortion Procedures Ban; Criticizes Anti-Abortion Extremists
for Underhanded Strategy to Outlaw All Abortions
- 11/24/98 6:02 PM
Union of Concerned Scientists:
Nuke Plant Owner Silences Whistleblower:
Action May Impede Other Employee Safety Concerns
- 11/24/98 5:22 PM
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union:
Food, Commercial Workers Nationwide
to March on Wal-Mart Headquarters in Arkansas; Pre-March Rallies Scheduled
- 11/24/98 4:11 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Starr; Iraq; SOA; Social Security:
Available For Timely Interviews This Week!
- 11/24/98 2:00 PM
Public Citizen:
NAFTA's Birthday Bombshell: Corporate
Predator Found Liable for Malicious and Fraudulent Business Practices in Mississippi
Uses NAFTA to Attack Legal System
- 11/24/98 9:30 AM
US Public Interest Research Group:
National PIRG Survey Finds Hazardous
Toys; Consumer Group Warns Shoppers About Hidden Dangers -- Choke Hazards, Toxic
Chemical Hazards Described
- 11/24/98 8:18 AM
Environmental Defense Fund:
UPS and Alliance for Environmental
Innovation Deliver Greener Packaging; Joint Initiative Cuts Pollution And Boosts
Bottom Line
- 11/24/98 1:00 AM
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society:
Christmas Comes
Early For The Whales; Whales Get Reprieve as Japanese Whaler Burns
- 11/23/98 3:03 PM
National Gay Lesbian Task Force:
Georgia Supreme Court Repeals Sodomy
Law
- 11/23/98 2:22 PM
East Timor Action Network:
East Timor Action Network Condemns
Killings; Calls for Troop Withdrawals and International Monitors
- 11/23/98 12:19 PM
Violence Policy Center:
Violence Policy Center Warns:
One Week Until Brady Law Expires
- 11/23/98 9:30 AM
Ozone Action:
Lethargic Response to Ozone Layer
Crisis Denounced at Cairo Meeting
- 11/22/98 5:08 PM
Center to Prevent Handgun Violence:
Crimes with Guns Decreasing Faster
than Violent Crime Overall, Data Shows
- 11/20/98 8:32 PM
INFACT:
Big Tobacco Divides to Conquer: INFACT
Condemns Tobacco Industry Deal and Promotes Kraft and Nabisco Boycott
- 11/20/98 1:05 PM
National Organization for Women:
NOW Challenges The National Honor
Society To Support Teen Mothers
- 11/19/98 11:40 AM
Human Rights Watch:
Were Chemical Weapons Used in Bosnia?
- 11/19/98 9:16 AM
US Public Interest Research Group:
Groups Target ARCO and Exxon
With Shareholder Resolutions ; Call on Companies to Cancel Drilling Plans for
Arctic Refuge
- 11/18/98 7:00 PM
The Progressive Magazine:
The Progressive Magazine to Celebrate
Its 90th Anniversary in January
- 11/18/98 6:31 PM
Human Rights Watch:
HRW Calls On Britain to Extradite
Pinochet If Lords Rule He Is Not Immune
- 11/18/98 4:29 PM
National Organization for Women:
NOW President Patricia Ireland on
the New Speaker of the House: "Livingston's a Newt in Sheep's Clothing!"
- 11/18/98 12:03 PM
Nuclear Information & Resource Service:
Dump Yucca Mountain! Nation's Environmental
Groups Agree: Yucca Mountain Is A Terrible Place To Mind Atomic Waste
- 11/18/98 11:36 AM
Campaign for America's Future:
While Social Security Helped
Democrats in '98 Election, Poll Shows Americans Dissatisfied with Debate About
"Saving" Social Security
- 11/18/98 11:00 AM
Americans for Heritage Forests:
One Year After President Clinton
Promised Action, America's Last Wild Forests Are Still Unprotected From Logging
Roads
- 11/18/98 10:46 AM
Greenpeace USA:
Monsanto Memos Show Increasing Opposition
For Genetically Engineered Foods in Europe
- 11/18/98 8:30 AM
Amnesty International:
Betraying the Young -- Children in
the US Justice System
- 11/17/98 11:55 AM
Ralph Nader:
Ralph Nader Statement on 'Citizen's
Guide to Impeachment'
- 11/17/98 11:09 AM
US Public Interest Research Group:
Toxic Mercury, Lead, Dioxin Pollution
Under-Reported: US PIRG And The Environmental Trust Call On EPA To Strengthen
Reporting Requirements For Most Dangerous Toxins
- 11/17/98 1:58 AM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
News Conference on Iraq
Crisis, Sanctions at 10 a.m.
- 11/16/98 7:24 PM
Fellowship of Reconciliation:
Peace Actions Across United States
Speak Out Against Bombing Iraq
- 11/16/98 3:01 PM
International Center for Technology Assessment:
"Real" Price of Gas To
Consumers Is As High As $15.14 Per Gallon: Study Details Over $1.69 Trillion In
Social Costs And Government Welfare For Gas Industry; Middle East Tensions And
Global Warming Major Contributors To Massive Increase In Real Cost of Gas
- 11/16/98 11:41 AM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Health Activists Blast Proposed Tobacco
Settlement, Denounce Failure To Deal With Expansion Overseas
- 11/16/98 10:30 AM
Corporate Crime Reporter:
Article Asks 'Did General Electric
Try to Derail Critical Book?'
- 11/16/98 10:03 AM
Ralph Nader:
Nader Criticizes 'Sweetheart Deal'
for Big Tobacco
- 11/15/98 6:09 PM
International Action Center:
U.S.-Iraq Crisis: Until Sanctions
Are Lifted, The Crisis Will Continue
- 11/15/98 2:27 AM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Iraq Analysts Available
- 11/14/98 6:56 PM
Biotic Baking Brigade:
Biotic Baking Brigade Strikes Again;
Sierra Club Official Carl Pope Pied
- 11/14/98 4:01 PM
National Environmental Trust:
Environmental Trust Calls for Broader
Action After Toys R Us Removes Toxic Teethers from Shelves
- 11/14/98 10:15 AM
Greenpeace International:
Economics Take Over Climate Talks
- 11/13/98 1:28 PM
Human Rights Watch:
Jakarta Killings Need International
Response
- 11/13/98 12:07 PM
Peace Action:
Peace Action Urges Calls to Clinton
and Hussein to Prevent Bombing
- 11/13/98 10:00 AM
Center to Prevent Handgun Violence:
Many Parents Leave Guns Accessible:
Parents Concerned But Don't Take Action To Protect Kids From Guns, New Study Shows
- 11/12/98 4:40 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Iraq Sanctions: What's The Policy?
- 11/12/98 4:19 PM
Friends of the Earth * Project Underground * Rainforest Action Network:
Oil Industry Dictates US Position
At Climate Convention; Secret Document Exposes The Real Reasons Behind U.S. COP4
Objectives
- 11/12/98 3:52 PM
Environmental Defense Fund:
President Clinton Signs Climate Treaty;
Presidential Signature On Kyoto Protocol Shows Leadership The Congress Should
Follow
- 11/12/98 1:32 PM
Sierra Club:
Sierra Club Receives Substantial
Grant For Human Rights/Environment Link; Goldman Fund Gift Will Support Joint
Campaign with Amnesty International
- 11/12/98 12:00 Noon
Vice President Al Gore:
Gore Statement on U.S. Signing of
Kyoto Protocol
- 11/12/98 9:54 AM
Democracy 21:
Democracy 21 Urges Senate Republicans
to Reject McConnell Bid
- 11/12/98 9:30 AM
American Civil Liberties Union:
The ACLU on Morality: Special Web
Collection On 'Public Morality' Launched
- 11/11/98 3:11 PM
Human Rights Watch:
Why Chile Won't Prosecute Pinochet
- 11/11/98 1:05 PM
International Action Center:
Worldwide Action Planned To Protest
U.S. Threats To Bomb Iraq
- 11/11/98 10:55 AM
Ozone Action:
U.S. Anti-Environment Congressional
Delegation: A National Embarrassment
- 11/11/98 10:03 AM
East Timor Action Network:
Demonstrations To Highlight Rights
For East Timor; Events To Commemorate 1991 Massacre
- 11/11/98 8:47 AM
Essential Information:
Public Interest Group Releases Citizen's
Guide to Impeachment
- 11/10/98 4:57 PM
INFACT:
INFACT Calls for TIAA-CREF to Divest
Tobacco Stocks; Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop Endorses INFACT's Boycott
- 11/10/98 3:48 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Hot Air & The Global Summit:
Environmentalists Urge Clinton To Live Up To Rhetoric
- 11/10/98 2:54 PM
Human Rights Watch:
Avoid Harm To Iraqi Civilians, Says
Rights Group; Clinton and Blair Urged to Take Extraordinary Precautions
- 11/9/98 8:33 PM
Ozone Action:
Administration Pressured to Retract
Negotiator's Endorsement of Nuclear Power; Organizations Insist Global Warming
Cannot Be Solved with Nuclear Power
- 11/9/98 5:53 PM
Violence Policy Center:
Violence Policy Center Hails Clinton's
Call to Regulate Gun Shows
- 11/9/98 4:25 PM
Greenpeace International:
La Hague, France Radioactive Air
90,000 Times Higher Than Background - Greenpeace Releases First Sample Results
- 11/9/98 3:06 PM
Physicians for a National Health Program:
U.S. Doctors to Seek Asylum in Canada
- 11/9/98 2:56 PM
American Friends Service Committee:
American Friends Service Committee
Sends Medical Delegation to Iraq
- 11/9/98 2:36 PM
Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
Supreme Court's Rejection Of Wisconsin
Voucher Case Sets No Nationwide Precedent, Says Americans United
- 11/9/98 12:52 PM
National Education Association:
NEA Disappointed Over Supreme Court's
Decision Not To Hear Wisconsin Voucher Case
- 11/9/98 12:49 PM
War Resisters League:
Youth On The Move: Third International
Youthpeace Week
- 11/9/98 11:30 AM
US Labor Party:
Ralph Nader Statement on the U.S.
Labor Party
- 11/6/98 8:46 PM
World Resources Institute:
New Study Says There are Major Opportunities
to Slow Climate Change Through Forest, Biodiversity and Land-use Initiatives
- 11/6/98 7:38 PM
Greenpeace International:
Japan Sends Brand New Whaling Vessel
To Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary
- 11/6/98 6:00 PM
Human Rights Watch:
Chile Still Limiting Free Expression;
Return To Democracy Incomplete, Says Rights Group
- 11/6/98 3:22 PM
Food Research and Action Center (FRAC):
FRAC Hails Child Nutrition And WIC
Programs Bill Signing; Calls Law "Good News" For Youngsters, Parents,
Schools, And Communities
- 11/6/98 2:58 PM
US Public Interest Research Group:
U.S. PIRG Applauds California Decision
To Cut Auto Pollution; Kicks off National Campaign for Clean Cars
- 11/6/98 11:35 AM
Human Rights Watch:
Pinochet Extradition Hearings: A
Human Rights Watch Update
- 11/5/98 6:44 PM
Earthjustice:
Suit Filed To Force Washington State
To Respond To Salmon Emergency; After More Than Two Decades of Talk, Conservationists
Ask Court to Invalidate Lax Forest Practice Rules
- 11/5/98 4:30 PM
Campaign for America's Future:
Election Results Mark End of Gingrich
Revolution; Enlarged Progressive Base Powers Vote
- 11/5/98 2:28 PM
Environmental Defense Fund:
Maryland Ranks Second Worst in Nation
on Pothole Index; Road funds fuel sprawl
- 11/5/98 2:01 PM
World Wildlife Fund:
Health Effects of Global Warming
Could Be Devastating, WWF Report Finds As Temperatures Rise, So Do Infectious
Diseases Such as Malaria, Dengue Fever
- 11/5/98 12:12 PM
Rainforest Action Network:
Groundbreaking Study Shows Petroleum
Exploration Threatens Natural Areas, Indigenous Peoples And The Global Climate
- 11/5/98 11:21 AM
2030 Center:
Voter Mandate: "Protect Social
Security" What Does This Mean?
- 11/5/98 10:00 AM
Consumer Action:
Card Issuers Hike Fees and Rates
to Bolster Profits - Consumer Action's 1998 Credit Card Survey
- 11/4/98 9:18 PM
Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
American Voters Reject Religious
Right Extremism; Multi-Million Dollar Crusade Produces Few Results
- 11/4/98 9:01 PM
National Organization for Women:
In Post-Election Statement, NOW President
Patricia Ireland Warns "Feminists Have To Fight As Hard As We Can Just To
Stay Even"
- 11/4/98 7:13 PM
American Rivers:
Montana Voters Save Blackfoot River
- 11/4/98 6:10 PM
National Education Association:
'A Great Victory for Children and
Education'
- 11/4/98 5:55 PM
Common Cause:
Common Cause Statement on
Results of the 1998 Elections
- 11/4/98 5:51 PM
ADAPT:
ADAPT Blockades American Bus Association
- 11/4/98 5:44 PM
Handgun Control:
1998 Elections Are Grand
Slam For Gun Control; Biggest Winners Used Gun Control as Pivotal Campaign Issue;
NRA Dumps $5 million into Races and Still Loses Major Ground
- 11/4/98 3:01 PM
The Interfaith Alliance:
Leaders of the Religious Right Are
On the Run; Randy Tate and Gary Bauer Accept No Responsibility
- 11/4/98 2:52 PM
Paul Simon:
Former Sen. Paul Simon Predicts U.S.,
Worldwide Water Crisis in New Book
- 11/4/98 2:24 PM
Sierra Club:
Environment A Winning Issue From
Sea To Shining Sea
- 11/4/98 1:36 PM
American Civil Liberties Union:
ACLU Vows to Continue Fight As Hawaii,
Alaska Voters Reject Same-Sex Marriage
- 11/4/98 1:03 PM
Public Campaign:
Voters Make Clean Money the Law in
Massachusetts and Arizona
- 11/4/99 12:52 PM
Public Citizen:
Statement of Wenonah Hauter, Director
of Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy Project, on the Defeat of California’s
Proposition 9
- 11/4/98 12:48 PM
Center for Responsive Politics:
Money and Incumbency Win Big on Election
Day; Top Spenders Win 94 Percent of Senate Races, 95 Percent of House Races
- 11/4/98 11:53 AM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Victories For Campaign Finance Reform
In 2 States Likely To Inspire Grassroots Efforts Nationwide
- 11/4/98 10:38 AM
Planned Parenthood:
1998 Election Results Are Huge Victory
For Choice And Family Planning
- 11/4/98 9:16 AM
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee:
House Democrats' Historic 1998 Victory
Sets Stage for 2000 Takeover
- 11/4/98 9:14 AM
American Friends Service Committee:
American Friends Service Committee
to Accept Donations for Assistance to Hurricane Mitch Victims in Honduras
- 11/4/98 3:35 AM
National Gay Lesbian Task Force:
Election Night Round Up
- 11/4/98 2:00 AM
National Gay Lesbian Task Force:
Tammy Baldwin Headed For Congress
- 11/3/98 11:31 PM
The Interfaith Alliance:
American Electorate Rejects Narrow
Agenda and Partisanship; Religious Right Handed Defeats Across the South
- 11/3/98 11:00 PM
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society:
The Whale Hunt: Makah Police Chief
Has Long Record Of Civil Rights Violations
- 11/3/98 1:30 PM
ADAPT:
Disabled Shut Down Health And Human
Services; "We're here because of one broken administration promise after
another"
- 11/3/98 1:26 PM
Campaign for America's Future:
Straight Talk on the '98 Election:
A Progressive Analysis of Election Results Hosted by the Campaign for America's
Future
- 11/3/98 10:43 AM
Planned Parenthood:
Election Analysis 1998
- 11/3/98 9:00 AM
Women, Men & Media:
Betty Friedan Announces Results of
Study on News Coverage of Women in Sports
- 11/2/98 4:32 PM
The Interfaith Alliance:
This Weekend's Christian Coalition
Voter Guide Plan Falters; Clergy Refuse to Distribute Guides
- 11/2/98 1:49 PM
General Board of Church and Society/The United Methodist Church:
United Methodist Social Action Agency
Joins Fast for Farmworkers
- 11/2/98 1:19 PM
ADAPT:
Disabled Shut Down National Party
Headquarters at Lunchtime
- 11/2/98 9:46 AM
Greenpeace International:
Greenpeace Scales Obelisk To Demand
Real Progress From Climate Summit
- 11/2/98 9:30 AM
Common Cause:
Common Cause Releases Election Night
Campaign Finance Kit
- 11/2/98 5:00 AM
Greenpeace International:
Polar Bears Threatened By Dramatic
Global Warming
- 11/1/98 3:15 PM
Pew Research:
Democrats Erase GOP Congressional
Lead; 44% Republican, 46% Democrat Final Generic Ballot Measure
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