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May
1999
- 5/28/99 11:08 AM
Greenpeace:
Japanese Plutonium Transport Imminent:
Greenpeace Warns Of Safety And Security Risks
- 5/28/99 10:19 AM
NARAL:
GW Bush's Abortion Agenda: Restrict
Access, Ignore Prevention Measures; Governor Demonstrates No Leadership on Programs
to Prevent Unintended Pregnancy
- 5/28/99 9:09 AM
Stand for Children:
Just 5 Days Until People In Your Community
Take A Stand For Children
- 5/27/99 6:16 PM
Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers:
Congressional Leaders Cite Test Ban
Treaty as Next Step to Dealing With Chinese Nukes; Senator Dorgan Calls for Prompt
Senate Action
- 5/27/99 5:59 PM
Sierra Club:
31 Senators Call On Clinton To Support
Cleaner SUVs, Nearing Level To Sustain Presidential Action
- 5/27/99 5:37 PM
Senator Paul Wellstone:
Wellstone Calls on President Clinton
to Explain Criteria for Selecting Bombing Targets Says Senate Must Ensure That
U.S. is Observing International Rules of War
- 5/27/99 5:09 PM
Ozone Action:
Exxon's Avowed Anti-Environmental Position
Dominates Merger Talks; Exxon and Mobil Shareholders Show Increasing Concern for
Global Warming
- 5/27/99 4:52 PM
Critical Mass Energy Project:
Exxon Mobil Merger: Who Really Benefits?
Statement of Wenonah Hauter, Director of Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy
Project
- 5/27/99 4:18 PM
Union of Concerned Scientists:
Energy Crops Need Boost from Congress
Biomass Bill Could Spur Rural Development, Clean Air, Energy Diversity
- 5/27/99 1:56 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
War Crimes?
- 5/27/99 12:00 Noon
Congressman Bob Clement:
26 Congressional Democrats Urge President
Clinton To Call For 72 Hour NATO Bombing Halt
- 5/27/99 10:19 AM
Environmental Working Group:
Reading, Writing and Risk: 2 Million
CA Kids Attend School in Portable Classrooms Where Air Quality May Be Harmful
to Health
- 5/27/99 10:13 AM
Planned Parenthood:
U.S. Military Women and Military Spouses
Denied Constitutional Right to Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care
- 5/27/99 9:02 AM
Greenpeace:
Greenpeace Calls On Euorpean Countries
To Follow Austria's Lead And Ban The Planting Of Butterfly Killing Transgenic
Maize
- 5/27/99 9:00 AM
Ruckus Society / Friends of the Earth / RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights:
Activists Gather for 2nd Human Rights
Action Camp May 28-June 2
- 5/26/99 5:12 PM
Council for a Livable World:
China: A Military Threat To The United
States?
- 5/26/99 4:01 PM
People for the American Way:
PFAW Board Asks Gore to Withdraw Funding
Plan for Churches
- 5/26/99 2:43 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Perspectives on China and Spying
- 5/26/99 1:10 PM
Greenpeace USA:
Greenpeace
Issues Report on Destruction of Ancient Forests; The Chain of Destruction Details
Companies' Use Of Ancient Forest Products
- 5/26/99 10:10 AM
Critical Mass Energy Project:
New Report: Money Harvest: Utility Holding
Companies Are Threshing Ratepayers
- 5/26/99 9:59 AM
Taxpayers for Common Sense:
Agricultural Appropriations Bill Reaches
Too Deep
- 5/26/99 9:16 AM
RTMARK:
GW Bush Requests "Limits To Freedom";
Internet Bites Bush: Not News. Bush Bites Internet: News!
- 5/25/99 6:22 PM
American Civil Liberties Union:
ACLU Defends Student Suspended for Blue
Hair; Suspension Is Result of Post-Littleton Policy Banning "Unusual Hair Colors"
- 5/25/99 6:01 PM
Critical Mass Energy Project:
Regulator 'Too Cozy' with Nuclear Industry,
Allows NEI to Rewrite Commission Policy
- 5/25/99 5:12 PM
Peace Action:
NATO Bombing of Power Plants and Water
Supply in Yugoslavia Identified as War Against Civilian Population
- 5/25/99 4:35 PM
Senator Paul Wellstone:
Wellstone Measure Will Aid in Environmental
Assessment at U.S. Military Bases Around the World
- 5/25/99 2:52 PM
Council for a Livable World:
It Is Rocket Science: Another Aborted
Missile Defense Test
- 5/25/99 2:02 PM
Senator Paul Wellstone:
Wellstone Calls For Welfare Reform Tracking
- 5/25/99 1:54 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
War Powers Violation Today?
- 5/25/99 10:34 AM
Greenpeace:
Activists Target The Home Depot's Destruction
of Ancient Forests
- 5/25/99 6:00 AM
Committee for the Defense of the Amazon:
New Ad Campaign Warns Chevron of Texaco's
Billion-Dollar Liability for Dumping in Rainforest
- 5/24/99 6:54 PM
Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
Vice President Al Gore's Policy Statement
On 'Charitable Choice' Funding Of Churches Raises Serious Constitutional Concerns
- 5/24/99 4:30 PM
Congressman Tom Campbell:
Twenty-Five Members File Motion For
Summary Judgement On Lawsuit To Stop US Bombing
- 5/24/99 3:16 PM
American Civil Liberties Union:
High Court Protects Privacy Rights In
Media 'Ride-Alongs' with Police
- 5/24/99 1:11 PM
National Organization for Women:
NOW President Patricia Ireland Applauds
High Court's Important First Step on School Sexual Harassment
- 5/24/99 9:17 AM
East Timor Action Network:
International Federation for East Timor
Warns That East Timor Vote in Jeopardy; IFET Urges UN to Take Charge of Security
in Indonesia-Occupied Territory
- 5/24/99 7:00 AM
Stand for Children:
Communities Across America to Take a
Stand for Children
- 5/24/99 5:30 AM
Greenpeace:
Greenpeace Releases New Whale Footage;
Satellite Feed Today
- 5/23/99 5:55 PM
National Partnership for Women & Families:
National Partnership Lauds President's
Bold Initiative to Make Family Leave More Affordable
- 5/23/99 1:09 PM
The Bell Campaign:
New Grassroots Campaign to Support Gun
Victims, Responsible Gun Policies to Be Launched May 25
- 5/22/99 2:33 PM
Sierra Club:
Chuck Brady Re-Elected As National Sierra
Club President
- 5/21/99 4:12 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Food Safety: New Arguments About US
Health And Foreign Trade
- 5/21/99 2:50 PM
Childrens Defense Fund:
CDF Applauds Senate Passage of Gun Restrictions
But Overall Juvenile Crime Bill Falls Short
- 5/21/99 1:45 PM
Ruckus Society / Friends of the Earth / RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights:
Human Rights, Environmental Activists
Worldwide to Gather for Second Human Rights Action Camp
- 5/21/99 1:14 PM
Senator Paul Wellstone:
Senate Passes Juvenile Crime Bill S.
254; Wellstone Opposed Measure Over Disproportionate Minority Confinement Issue
- 5/20/99 6:17 PM
Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities:
Congress Beats Ploughshares into Swords
Then Tries to Blame Budget Caps; Legislators Try To Hide Unprecedented Peacetime
Shift In Priorities From Domestic Programs To The Pentagon
- 5/20/99 4:02 PM
NAACP/Justice Policy Institute/Youth Law Center:
Hatch "Sleepwalking through History"
as he turns Back Clock on Discrimination in the Juvenile Justice System; Error-laced
Statement Offends Civil Rights Groups Ignores Mountains of Research about Racial
Discrimination
- 5/20/99 1:43 PM
Violence Policy Center:
Senate Passage of Gun Show Rules Will
Control 'Tupperware Parties for Criminals'
- 5/20/99 1:00 PM
Ralph Nader:
Nader Criticizes Channel One in Testimony
Before Senate Education Committee
- 5/20/99 12:45 PM
Physicians for Social Responsibility:
Physicians Escalate Gun Control Demands
- 5/20/99 9:26 AM
Public Lands Funding Initiative:
Conservationists Decry Devastating Congressional
Cuts in Public Lands and Wildlife Programs
- 5/20/99 9:10 AM
Center for Responsive Politics:
Digital Democracy: Center Releases Status
Report On Online Campaign Finance Filing In Every State
- 5/20/99 9:00 AM
Greenpeace:
Monsanto And Novartis Genetically Engineered
Maize Harms Butterflies: Greenpeace Calls For A Ban
- 5/19/99 5:31 PM
Death Penalty Information Center:
Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award Winners
Announced: ABC-TV's Nightline and Eric Bates Of The North Carolina Independent
To Be Honored By DPIC
- 5/19/99 5:15 PM
Union of Concerned Scientists:
Toxic Pollen Threatens Monarchs; Gene-Altered
Corn May Harm Beloved Butterfly
- 5/19/99 4:02 PM
Rainforest Action Network:
British Columbian First Nations to Present
Anti-Logging Resolution at Home Depot Investors Meeting
- 5/19/99 3:44 PM
Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
Americans United Criticizes Senate Passage
Of School Prayer And Religious Memorial Proposal
- 5/19/99 2:30 PM
Environmental Defense Fund:
Genetic Engineering Kills Monarch Butterflies
- 5/19/99 1:57 PM
People for the American Way:
Equine Posterior Achievement Award
- 5/19/99 12:18 PM
Planned Parenthood:
U.S. Servicewomen and Military Spouses
May No Longer Be Denied Constitutional Right to Abortion
- 5/19/99 10:00 AM
East Timor Action Network:
ETAN Files 1st Amendment Lawsuit Seeking
A Preliminary Injunction That Would Require The NYC Dept. Of Transportation To
Grant The Group's Request For A Temporary Street Renaming In Time For July 17
Commemoration
- 5/19/99 9:38 AM
Greenpeace:
Greenpeace: Commission's Climate Change
Communication A Two Year Step Backwards
- 5/18/99 4:41 PM
Senator Paul Wellstone:
Wellstone Urges Human Rights Improvements
in China on 10th Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre; Resolution Remembers Tiananmen
Square, Demands Concrete Reforms
- 5/18/99 2:28 PM
Doctors Without Borders:
Report: Aid Fails Refugees Outside Camps
in Albania
- 5/18/99 2:15 PM
Moment of Silence:
Moment of Silence Campaign Marks Two
Months Of Yugoslavian Bombings
- 5/18/99 2:12 PM
Senator Paul Wellstone:
Wellstone Amendment to GOP Juvenile
Crime Bill; Seeks to Address Disproportionate Minority Confinement
- 5/18/99 1:13 PM
Public Citizen:
Safety Advocates Call for Recall of
Chrysler Minivan Passenger Air Bags; Consumer Groups Urge NHTSA to Disclose Data
on All Air Bag Designs
- 5/18/99 12:56 PM
Amnesty International:
Amnesty International Concerns Relating
to NATO Bombings
- 5/18/99 11:28 AM
International Campaign to Ban Landmines:
ICBL to Hold Press Briefing on Campaign
to Ban Landmines
- 5/18/99 10:38 AM
American Civil Liberties Union:
Black Army Veteran Files Lawsuit After
Terrifying Race Profiling Stop in Oklahoma 12-Year-Old Son Was Terrorized by Police
Dog
- 5/17/99 5:00 PM
Amnesty International:
Race Drives Use of Death Penalty in
U.S. Judicial System, Amnesty International Report Finds
- 5/17/99 4:58 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
What Is A Cluster Bomb?
- 5/17/99 2:53 PM
Senator Paul Wellstone:
Wellstone, Kennedy to Announce Push
for Racial Justice on Juvenile Crime Bill at News Conference with Civil Rights,
Children's Groups
- 5/17/99 1:45 PM
Nuclear Control Institute:
US Government Approves Transport Plan
for First Plutonium "MOX" Fuel Shipment from Europe to Japan
- 5/15/99 11:20 AM
NARAL:
NARAL President: Texas Event Exposes
Bush's Anti-Choice Position
- 5/14/99 4:04 PM
Greens/Green Party USA:
Greens/Green Party USA Reject German
Greens Compromise; Renews Call For "Immediate And Final Stop " To NATO
Bombing
- 5/14/99 3:05 PM
Center for Responsive Politics:
Senate Approved Limited Gun Show Restrictions;
Despite Littleton, Gun Rights' Advocates Clout Still Strong
- 5/14/99 2:48 PM
Sierra Club:
Pocahontas' People Return to Jamestown,
VA Trail of Hope Bolsters Mattaponi Tribe's Efforts to Defeat Reservoir Project
- 5/14/99 9:54 AM
Commonwealth Fund:
Analysis of Minority Health Reveals
Persistent, Widespread Disparities
- 5/13/99 5:00 PM
Senator Paul Wellstone:
Wellstone Renews Call For Bombing Pause
- 5/13/99 4:28 PM
War Resisters League:
Anti-war Protesters Picket New York
Dems
- 5/13/99 4:17 PM
Center for Responsive Politics:
Senate Gun Vote: Despite Littleton,
Gun Rights Clout Still Strong
- 5/13/99 3:23 PM
NARAL:
Double Pro-choice Victory For Military
Women Stationed Overseas
- 5/13/99 3:10 PM
Public Citizen:
Public Citizen Wins Release of Historic
Hiss-Chambers Records; 1948 Grand Jury Testimony to be Made Public
- 5/13/99 2:48 PM
Feminist Majority:
Progress in Afghanistan?
- 5/13/99 1:50 PM
US Public Interest Research Group:
Right-To-Know Data Show Significant
Increases In Toxic waste; Industrial Pollution Prevention Efforts Failing
- 5/13/99 12:16 PM
FRAC - Food Research and Action Center:
Health Coverage Drops In Wake of Welfare
Reform; A Disturbing Trend For Working Families
- 5/13/99 11:52 AM
Human Rights Watch:
Growing Concern About NATO Violating
the Laws of War
- 5/12/99 8:40 PM
Handgun Control:
Senate Votes to Continue Gun-Show Loophole
That Allows Criminals and Children to Buy Guns; Opens New Loopholes in Gun Laws
- 5/12/99 5:50 PM
Public Citizen:
Truth is Stranger than Fiction: GE-NBC
Re-Edits Atomic Train to Erase Nuclear Waste; Industry Pressures Network
- 5/12/99 3:27 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
China and the Bombing Campaign
- 5/12/99 11:37 AM
ADAPT:
Thousands of Disabled Activists March
to Supreme Court
- 5/11/99 5:55 PM
Human Rights Watch:
NATO Use of Cluster Bombs Must Stop
- 5/11/99 3:45 PM
Amnesty International:
Amnesty International Writes To NATO
Expressing 'Deep Concern' About The Bomb Attacks On Civilian Targets
- 5/11/99 3:22 PM
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee:
Opponents of U.S. Military Action on
Yugoslavia Will Refuse to Pay Taxes for the War
- 5/11/99 3:15 PM
Human Rights Campaign:
Judy Shepard Testifies In Support Of
Hate Crimes Bill At Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing
- 5/11/99 3:01 PM
People for the American Way:
Christian Coalition Political Ads Exploit
Littleton Tragedy; PFAWF Urges Tate to Halt Offensive Spots
- 5/11/99 2:42 PM
Senator Paul Wellstone:
Senate Takes Up Juvenile Crime Bill
S. 254; Wellstone Urges Focus On Prevention and Mental Health Treatment; Says
Republican Bill Fails to Invest in At-Risk Children
- 5/11/99 12:30 PM
Human Rights Watch:
Major New Campaign Launched Against
Small Arms Proliferation
- 5/11/99 10:15 AM
National Organization for Women:
Stop the Violence, Stop the Hate: Statement
of NOW President Patricia Ireland on the 1999 Hate Crimes Prevention Act
- 5/11/99 8:30 AM
Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers:
Non-Proliferation, Test Ban Efforts
in Jeopardy One Year After Indian & Pakistani Nuclear Blasts
- 5/10/99 5:57 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Perspectives on Juvenile Crime
- 5/10/99 11:58 AM
ADAPT:
Disabled Activists Say: 'Integration,
Not Segregation'
- 5/10/99 11:48 AM
United Food and Commercial Workers Union:
Wal-Mart's 'War on Women Workers' Exposed
in Nationwide Protest
- 5/10/99 6:00 AM
Handgun Control:
NRA's Solutions to Gun Violence -- No
Prevention, No Cure
- 5/7/99 6:16 PM
National Environmental Trust:
U.S. Department of Agriculture Study
Asserts that Global Warming is a Threat U.S. Farmers Can Afford to Meet
- 5/7/99 5:30 PM
Amnesty International:
Pinochet case: let justice take its
course
- 5/7/99 4:55 PM
Physicians for Social Responsibility:
Physicians Call for Congress to Act
on Public's Cry for Gun Restrictions
- 5/7/99 12:36 PM
ADAPT:
Disabled Demand Integration and Real
Choice
- 5/6/99 4:13 PM
National Community Reinvestment Coalition:
NCRC Says Senate Republicans Deliver
Body Blow Against Community Reinvestment Act
- 5/6/99 4:02 PM
AFL-CIO:
Labor and Environmental Organizations
Discuss Climate Change
- 5/6/99 1:50 PM
Planned Parenthood:
Statement by Planned Parenthood
President on Kopp Indictment
- 5/6/99 12:52 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Some Religious Perspectives on the War
in Yugoslavia
- 5/6/99 12:31 PM
American Medical Student Association:
Medical Students React to Mass. Study
About Single-Payer Health Care System
- 5/6/99 11:30 AM
Critical Mass Energy Project:
NRC Wipes Out 'Watch List'
- 5/6/99 8:18 AM
Greenpeace International:
Greenpeace Says European Union Chemicals
Policy Endangers Environment And Health
- 5/5/99 7:18 PM
Wilderness Society:
Anti-Environmental Riders Attached to
Kosovo Relief
- 5/5/99 5:55 PM
Senator Patrick Leahy:
Sen. Leahy, Center for Science in the
Public Interest to Unveil Bill to Prohibit the Free Distribution of Soda in Schools
- 5/5/99 2:59 PM
Federation of American Scientists:
Scientists Urge Consideration of Humanitarian
Truce
- 5/5/99 2:29 PM
New Century Alliance for Social Security:
New Century Alliance to Outline Criteria
for Social Security Reform May 6 at NPC
- 5/5/99 12:36 PM
Black Leadership Forum:
Joseph Lowery of Black Leadership Forum
Asks for Halt to Balkan Bombing
- 5/4/99 3:43 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Russia And Negotiations
- 5/4/99 10:24 AM
Public Citizen Health Research Group:
Public Citizen, National Women's Health
Network Urge FDA to Require Warnings About Risks Associated with Tamoxifen Breast
Cancer Drug Can Cause Endometrial Cancer, Other Serious Disease
- 5/3/99 5:55 PM
Peace Action:
Civilians Take Brunt Of Latest NATO
Refusal To Negotiate End Of War; Peace Action Points To Growing War Against Civilians
- 5/3/99 4:31 PM
US Public Interest Research Group:
More Than 120 Members of Congress Support
New Right to Know Bill
- 5/3/99 4:29 PM
US Public Interest Research Group:
ARCO Shareholders Support Arctic Refuge,
4.7% Vote in Favor of Canceling Drilling Plans
- 5/3/99 4:12 PM
US Senator Paul Wellstone:
Wellstone Proposes Conditional Pause
In NATO Bombings To Bolster Diplomatic Effort
- 5/3/99 2:59 PM
Sierra Club:
Sierra Club Warns Of Green Scam By American
Forest And Paper Association
- 5/3/99 1:16 PM
National Organization for Women:
Statement of NOW Action Vice President
Elizabeth Toledo on Digital Broadcast Project
- 5/3/99 12:00 Noon
New Century Alliance for Social Security:
Is a Social Security Deal Possible this
Year? Citizen Alliance to Outline Criteria for Reform
- 5/3/99 10:59 AM
Human Rights Watch:
World Performance on Landmines Assessed:
Production, Export Plummeting; Some Governments Sign Treaty But Still Use Mines
- 5/3/99 10:45 AM
Coalition:
Civil Rights Coalition Unites to Support
Endangered Community Reinvestment Act; Leaders Speak Out To Counter Sen. Gramm's
Attack
- 5/3/99 10:22 AM
Violence Policy Center:
Gun Industry Imperils National Security
With Sales of Military Sniper Rifles, Says VPC
- 5/3/99 9:39 AM
Greenpeace:
Norwegian Whale Hunt Is Against International
Law
- 5/2/99 10:14 PM
East Timor Action Network:
East Timor Eyewitnesses to Testify Before
Congress
- 5/1/99 6:25 PM
Handgun Control:
Handgun Control Fact Sheet on 'NRA:
Getting It Wrong Again'
- 5/1/99 6:00 PM
Worldwatch Institute:
Kosovo and Beyond: Peacemaking in a
Post-Cold War World
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