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July 2002
- 7/31/02 11:35 PM
Free Burma Coalition:
Rare, Graphic Photos Reveal Grisly Massacre By
Burma's Regime; U.S. Congressman: Photos Show “Campaign of Terror by Burma's
Military Regime Against Its Own People
- 7/31/02 5:54 PM
Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition:
State Groups Nix Meeting with DOI Head on 25th
Anniversary of Federal Mining Law
- 7/31/02 5:43 PM
Coalition for the International Criminal Court:
Civil Society Organizations Express Concerns About
the Upcoming Election of Judges to International Criminal Court; NGO Coalition
Presses for Consultation and Transparency in Nomination Processes
- 7/31/02 4:42 PM
National Organization for Women:
NOW Blasts Senate Confirmation of Judge D. Brooks
Smith
- 7/31/02 3:06 PM
Council for a Livable World:
Council for a Livable World Lauds Test Ban Study
- 7/31/02 10:20 AM
Commercial Alert:
Coalition Asks UNICEF to Cancel "McDonald's
World Children's Day"
- 7/31/02 1:18 AM
R2K Legal Collective:
Continued Prosecution and Harrassment of Activists;
Two Years After Mass Arrests at RNC Protests
- 7/30/02 5:04 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Interviews Available on Corporate Wrongdoing: *
The New Law * FCC Role * Enron's Global Damage
- 7/30/02 4:46 PM
US Public Interest Research Group:
Popular Children's Clays May Pose Health Risks;
Lab Testing Shows Toxic Chemicals in Polymer Clays
- 7/30/02 4:17 PM
Commercial Alert:
San Francisco Moves to Ban Sale of Naming Rights;
First Major City to Counter Naming Rights Trend
- 7/30/02 3:42 PM
Sierra Club:
Sierra Club Denounces Bill Touting Administration
Pollution Plan; Urges Members of Congress to Oppose Irresponsible Plan
- 7/30/02 2:45 PM
United for Peace:
U.S. Peace and Human Rights Groups Call On Communities
To Organize "Peace Events" the Week of Sept. 11; Peace and healing will
be themes of events to commemorate the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks
- 7/30/02 2:39 PM
Public Citizen:
Medical Malpractice Premiums Not Only Rates to
Increase, State Survey Shows; Other Types of Insurance Have Risen Too; Insurance
Companies’ Poor Investments and Bad Decisions – Not Litigation –Caused
Premium Increases
- 7/30/02 12:10 PM
NARAL:
Senate Panel Votes to Ratify Historic Women's Rights
Treaty: Statement of NARAL Executive Vice President Mary Jane Gallagher
- 7/30/02 8:54 AM
Center for Justice & Democracy:
Americans for Insurance Reform Launched To Fight
Insurance Industry Mismanagement and Price-Gouging; Broad Coalition Demands Immediate
Freeze on Insurance Rates
- 7/29/02 4:53 PM
American Lung Association:
Lung Association Urges Congress To Reject White
House Clean Air Plan; Weak Bill Introduced Today Would Delay Air Pollution Clean
Up
- 7/29/02 1:23 PM
Sierra Club:
Sierra Club Expresses Disappointment as House Approves
Fast Track, Threatening Environmental Protections
- 7/29/02 1:12 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Interviews Available: Ritter: A 'Sham Hearing'
on Iraq; Von Sponeck: Weapons Sites 'Defunct and Destroyed'
- 7/29/02 12:04 PM
Bread for the World:
New Bipartisan Poll Reveals the Politics of Hunger:
Voters Care Deeply About Hunger But Reject Current Political Approaches
- 7/29/02 9:55 AM
Clean Air Trust:
Public Overwhelmingly Rejects Bush `Clear Skies'
Plan; Favors Enforcement Over `Cap and Trade' Approach, Says Clean Air Trust
- 7/29/02 8:57 AM
International Solidarity Movement:
International Activists Arrested for Blocking Destruction
of Palestinian Roads by Israeli Military
- 7/29/02 8:00 AM
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL):
Karzai Urged to Bring Hope to Most Mined Country
- 7/27/02 3:00 AM
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch:
Midsummer Night’s Massacre: Controversial
304-page "Trade" Bill Few Have Read is Rammed Through Congress at 3:30AM
by Razor Thin Margin; Statement by Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen’s
Global Trade Watch
- 7/26/02 6:46 PM
Coalition for the International Criminal Court (ICC):
US Congress Passes Anti-ICC "Hague Invasion
Act"; American Servicemembers' Protection Act to be Signed by President Bush
- 7/26/02 3:48 PM
Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights:
Bankruptcy Bill Goes After Consumers in Hard Times,
While WorldCom, Enron Remain Protected; Group Calls Bankruptcy Bill Unfair
- 7/26/02 2:01 PM
Public Citizen:
Plight of Vivendi Demonstrates Risks of Water
Privatization; Statement of Jane Kelly, California Director of Public Citizen
- 7/26/02 11:09 AM
Public Citizen:
Bush-Cheney Campaign Violated Soft Money Disclosure
Law; Soft Money Fund for Recount Narrowly Escapes $7 Million Fine by Filing Disclosure
Statements Hours Before Deadline; Forms Still Not Publicly Available
- 7/26/02 8:44 AM
Center for Science in the Public Interest:
Dangerous 'Trans Fat' Present In Foods, Absent
On Labels; "Secret Fat" May Be Less Secret Soon—But Consumers
May Still Be Confused If FDA Has Its Way
- 7/26/02 8:21 AM
Foreign Policy In Focus:
Powell's Visit Needs to Focus on Asia's Problems
as well as Terrorism
- 7/25/02 8:11 PM
World Wildlife Fund:
Snakehead Fish: Not the Only Invasive Species Damaging
U.S. Crops and Native Wildlife, Says World Wildlife Fund
- 7/25/02 5:07 PM
People for the American Way:
Court Hears Motions On Florida Election Violations
- 7/25/02 3:34 PM
U.S. Public Interest Research Group:
Public Interest and Civil Rights Groups Assail
House Republican Election Reform Proposal; Statement of U.S. PIRG Democracy Advocate
Adam Lioz
- 7/25/02 3:18 PM
Sierra Club:
Bipartisan Action in Senate Would Protect America's
Wild Forests; Statement of Carl Pope, Executive Director of Sierra Club
- 7/25/02 2:46 PM
U.S. Public Interest Research Group:
Senate Committee Applauded for Unanimous Passage
of Chemical Security Plan; Statement of Jeremiah Baumann, Environmental Health
Advocate
- 7/25/02 1:54 PM
ADA Watch Coalition,:
Bush Turning to Opponents of ADA to Fill Crucial
Judicial, Executive Positions; Enforcement in Jeopardy on Anniversary of Disability
Rights Law
- 7/25/02 1:41 PM
Center for Justice & Democracy:
Center For Justice & Democracy Calls On President
Bush To Focus On The Real Reasons Why Insurance Costs Are Skyrocketing
- 7/25/02 1:36 PM
Progressive Majority:
DrugsNotDogFood.com Campaign Launched by Progressive
Majority Starkly Shows Need for Adequate Prescription Drug Coverage for Nation's
Seniors; Each Signature Equals One Dog Biscuit Sent to President Bush
- 7/25/02 1:18 PM
Public Citizen:
Watchdog Groups Call for Congressional Investigation
Into ConAgra Meat Recall and USDA Food Safety Policies; E-mails Show That USDA
Had Been Warned of E. Coli at Plant
- 7/25/02 1:14 PM
Marijuana Policy Project:
Save the Date: MPP to Co-host National Conference
November 8-10; Bill Maher Among Celebrities Scheduled to Appear
- 7/25/02 11:20 AM
American Civil Liberties Union:
ACLU Deplores Latest Political Power Play At Expense
of Women's Health
- 7/25/02 11:19 AM
Defenders of Wildlife:
Corporations Aim to Influence Lawmakers at Disney
World Conference, Says Defenders of Wildlife
- 7/25/02 11:13 AM
United Nations Population Fund:
UN Population Fund Welcomes European Union Pledge
of $32 Million for Reproductive Health in 22 Countries
- 7/25/02 11:06 AM
Public Citizen:
Bush Administration Grandstanding on Medical Malpractice,
Failing Patients in Need of Better Medical Care
- 7/25/02 9:33 AM
Greensboro Justice Fund:
Greensboro Justice Fund Warns Judiciary Committee
Re Unleashing of FBI, Operation TIPS, Secrecy
- 7/24/02 7:13 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Interviews Available on Economic Crisis: * Banking
Industry * 401(k)s and Pensions
- 7/24/02 7:00 PM
National Abortion Federation:
House In Election Year Political Move Passes So-Called
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Legislation
- 7/24/02 6:58 PM
Amazon Watch:
Environmentalists Call on German Bank to Cancel
Loan for Ecuador Oil Pipeline or Withdraw from United Nations Environment Program
Finance Initiative; Protest Planned at WestLB’s New York Headquarters
- 7/24/02 6:33 PM
Consumers Union:
Cable Price Hikes, Broken Promises Prompt Call
For New Oversight; New report by Consumers Union says cable rates up 45% since
deregulation began
- 7/24/02 5:31 PM
Peaceful Tomorrows:
September 11 Family Member Brings Peace Message
to Japan; New Yorker to Address 20,000 at Mother's Congress and International
Anti-Nuclear Conference
- 7/24/02 5:00 PM
Working Group on Corporate Accountability:
Compromise Corporate Reform Bill Does Not Go Far
Enough to Reassure Investors, Analysts Fear
- 7/24/02 3:58 PM
Public Citizen:
Investors Need Clear Picture of Profits: Corporations
Must Be Required to Count Cost of Stock Options as Expenses; Statement of Public
Citizen President Joan Claybrook
- 7/24/02 3:23 PM
American Friends Service Committee:
Violent Acts of "Law Enforcement" Condemned;
Group says “Excessive police violence indicative of a justice system ‘gone
awry’”
- 7/24/02 2:58 PM
National Gay & Lesbian Task Force:
Senate Should Pass Women's Rights Treaty After
22 Year Delay, Says National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- 7/24/02 1:04 PM
Greenpeace USA:
EPA Told to Stand Up to White House on Homeland
Security; Protestors Say Ten Months of Inaction on Chemical Plants "Intolerable"
- 7/24/02 12:02 PM
US Public Interest Research Group:
U.S. PIRG Consumer Program Director on Accounting
and Corporate Reform Bill
- 7/24/02 11:45 AM
Clean Air Trust:
Pew Hires Industry Lobbyists to Attack Clean Air
Enforcement
- 7/24/02 11:00 AM
TakeBackBaseball.com:
'Bud Selig Must Go'; TakeBackBaseball.com Launches
Grassroots Fan Petition to Get a New Baseball Commissioner at www.BudMustGo.com
- 7/23/02 10:21 PM
School of the Americas Watch:
El Salvadoran Generals Connected to SOA Found Liable
for Torture; Jury Awards $54.6 Million to Victims
- 7/23/02 7:18 PM
Arab American Institute:
Arab Americans Challenge Bush Administration to
Investigate Israel's Violations of Arms Export Control Act
- 7/23/02 6:43 PM
Human Rights Watch:
Israeli Airstrike on Crowded Civilian Area Condemned
- 7/23/02 6:06 PM
CorpWatch:
CorpWatch Hires New Executive Director
- 7/23/02 5:20 PM
U.S. Public Interest Research Group:
Metro Ads Challenge Administration to Halt Its
Attack on Clean Air; Administration Policies Would Make Air Smoggier
- 7/23/02 4:07 PM
Mineral Policy Center:
Mineral Policy Center: Mining Industry Seeking
to Evade Financial Responsibility for Cleaning Up Billions in Toxic Pollution
- 7/23/02 1:05 PM
U.S. Public Interest Research Group:
Statement of Pierre Sadik on President's Signing
of Yucca Mountain Resolution
- 7/23/02 12:34 PM
The Labor Party:
Build the Future: Labor Party Convention and Conference:
July 25-28; SteelWorkers President Leo Gerard and Jim Hightower Featured Speakers
- 7/23/02 11:41 AM
Natural Resources Defense Council:
America's Wetlands in Danger; Legal Loophole Leaves
"Isolated" Wetlands in Peril, Says New Report
- 7/23/02 11:33 AM
Public Citizen:
Energy Bill Contradicts Push to Corporate Reform;
Congress Rails Against Corporate Crime One Minute, Deregulates Corporations the
Next
- 7/23/02 11:06 AM
World Wildlife Fund:
World's Leading Scientists Form Global Network
to Tackle Biggest Threat to Whales, Dolphins -- Entanglement in Fishing Gear
- 7/23/02 10:15 AM
Working Group on Corporate Accountability:
Interview Opportunities with Experts on Corporate
Accountability; Observers Charge House-Senate Conference Heavily Lobbied by Industry
- 7/23/02 10:00 AM
People for the American Way:
Statement on the Bush Administration’s Decision
to Withhold Funding to the UN Population Fund
- 7/23/02 8:34 AM
Sierra Club:
Want Healthy Forests? Think Restoration; New Report
Shows Environmental and Economic Benefits of Restoring America's Forests
- 7/23/02 12:15 AM
Council on American-Islamic Relations:
Israel Uses U.S. Weapons to Massacre Palestinian
Civilians; Deliberate air attack on civilian building called "state-sponsored
terrorism"
- 7/22/02 10:56 PM
Gush Shalom:
Sharon Answers Cease-Fire Offer with Carnage; Rabin-Pelosof
Resigns from the Government
- 7/22/02 6:54 PM
Public Concern Temiskaming / Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA):
80 International Organizations Speak Out Against
Ontario’s PCB Import Plan
- 7/22/02 5:00 PM
NARAL:
Bush Cancels United Nations Funds; World's Poorest
Women Fall Victim to Anti-Choice Politics
- 7/22/02 4:46 PM
Health Reform Program - Boston University School of Public Health:
Affordable Medicare Drug Plan Unveiled at Boston
Congressional Hearing
- 7/22/02 3:55 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Stock Market Slide: What Does It Mean?
- 7/22/02 1:45 PM
Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement:
Nevadans Evenly Split on Marijuana Initiative;
Supporters Say Poll Provides Good News for Campaign
- 7/22/02 1:31 PM
Planned Parenthood Federation of America:
Bush Denies Women Health Care, Human Rights; Administration
De-Funds U.N. Health Program that Saves Women's Lives
- 7/22/02 1:18 PM
Public Citizen:
Government Agencies Withheld Relevant Research
From Congress During Farm Bill Debate; Research Confirms That Consumers Reject
"Pasteurization" Label for Irradiated Food
- 7/22/02 10:57 AM
Natural Resources Defense Council:
California Gov. Gray Davis Signs Landmark CO2 Pollution
Measure; New Law Uses Power of American Know-How to Tackle Global Warming
- 7/22/02 10:00 AM
National Abortion Federation:
National Abortion Federation Opposes Nomination
Of Priscilla Owen To The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals; Statement of NAF Pres.
Saporta
- 7/22/02 9:09 AM
World Wildlife Fund:
Leading Scientists to Announce New Global Effort
To Save Whales, Dolphins; Experts to Ask Ocean Comm. to Prioritize Bycatch Problems
- 7/20/02 3:40 PM
Human Rights Watch:
U.S. Moves to Undermine New Torture Treaty; Bush
Administration Again Defies Allies on Human Rights
- 7/19/02 8:05 PM
Bluewater Network:
Governor Davis Signs Groundbreaking Bill to Reduce
Auto-Related Global Warming Pollution
- 7/19/02 6:01 PM
Amazon Watch:
Julia Butterfly Brings the Struggle Against Oil
Destruction from Quito to LA: Press Conference at Occidental Petroleum’s
LA Headquarters
- 7/19/02 4:07 PM
Public Citizen:
Lawsuit Prompts White House to Release Reagan-Bush
Records; Unlawful Delay Prompted Challenge; Other Records Are Still Being Withheld
- 7/19/02 3:46 PM
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice:
Interfaith Coalition Questions Suitability of Court
Nominee Priscilla Owen
- 7/19/02 3:40 PM
East Timor Action Network:
Statement by the East Timor Action Network on Restoration
of IMET Military Training by Senate Appropriations Committee
- 7/19/02 2:42 PM
National Organization for Women:
NOW Opposes Nomination of Priscilla Owen To Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals
- 7/19/02 10:38 AM
Public Citizen:
Brand-Name Drug Industry Overwhelms Generic in
Campaign Contributions and Lobbying Spending; Debate Over Quicker Access to Generic
Drugs Showcases the Money and Influence of the Brand-Name Drug Industry
- 7/19/02 9:57 AM
Green Party of the US:
Greens Begin Midterm Convention in Philadelphia
- 7/19/02 5:47 AM
Federation of Statewide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT)Advocacy
Organizations:
Florida to Host National Conference of LGBT State
Activist (MiamiAug 1-4)
- 7/18/02 8:15 PM
Brennan Center for Justice:
Brennan Center Statement on Decision in Johnson
v. Bush
- 7/18/02 5:18 PM
Public Citizen:
Campaign to Deregulate Set the Stage for Corporate
Scandals; Crime Wave in Boardrooms Springs From Weak Oversight, Public Citizen
President Joan Claybrook Tells Lawmakers
- 7/18/02 2:38 PM
US Rep Bernie Sanders:
Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy And
Trade to Hold Hearing On World Bank; Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Ranking Member
of the Subcommittee, To Raise Strong Concerns Against World Bank's Terrible Record
- 7/18/02 10:50 AM
Clean Air Trust:
Diesel-Scam! Congressman Drafts Legislation to
Make Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Corporate Irresponsibility
- 7/18/02 10:38 AM
World Wildlife Fund:
At Boston Press Conference, Leading Scientists
to Announce New Global Effort to Save Whales and Dolphins
- 7/18/02 10:29 AM
National Gay & Lesbian Task Force:
Right-Wing Effort to Ban Same Sex Marriage in Massachusetts
Defeated; National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Celebrates Victory with Local Activists
- 7/18/02 9:30 AM
Greenpeace USA:
One Year Later: What Have We Learned From The Baltimore
Train Tunnel Disaster?
- 7/18/02 12:34 AM
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition:
Shareholders, Environmentalists, Workers Pressure
Dell Computer to Match Company Performance with Environmental Leadership; US Consumers
Deserve Same Service Offered in European, Japanese Markets
- 7/17/02 8:32 PM
Common Cause:
Follow the Money: Accounting Industry Gave $1.3
million to Conferees
- 7/17/02 7:10PM
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights:
National Immigrant Student Day Action Presses Legislators
for Right to Higher Education; Immigrant Students Lobby for Their Dreams
- 7/17/02 5:01 PM
Rainforest Action Network:
Julia Butterfly Hill Arrested in Ecuador Oil Protest;
Occidental Petroleum’s Quito Office Shut Down by Protesters
- 7/17/02 3:18 PM
Union of Concerned Scientists:
Bush and Power Companies Oppose Lone Star in Energy
Bill; Opposition to Renewable Electricity Contradicts Administration's Own Study
- 7/17/02 2:24 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Interviews Available: The TIPS Program and Civil
Liberties
- 7/17/02 12:48 PM
National Women's Law Center:
NWLC Opposes Justice Priscilla Owen Nomination,
Urges Senate to Reject Nominee
- 7/17/02 12:42 PM
Friends of the Earth:
Genetically Engineered Crop Gene Found for First
Time in Bacteria in Human Digestive System; Concerns About Antibiotic Resistance
Raised
- 7/17/02 10:07 AM
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund:
Government Data Show Welfare Reform Failure; Substantial
majority of families leaving welfare are still poor and eligible for benefits
- 7/17/02 9:53 AM
Commercial Alert:
"Obesity Lobby" Will Carry Out CDC's
New Program, Commercial Alert Charges
- 7/16/02 5:27 PM
East Timor Action Network:
Groups Urge Congress to Continue Restrictions on
U.S. Military Assistance to Indonesia; ETAN Releases Report Detailing Indonesia's
Failure to Meet Congressional Conditions
- 7/16/02 4:12 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Interviews Available: * Halliburton * The Fed
- 7/16/02 3:30 PM
Public Citizen:
New Report Unmasks United Seniors Association as
Hired Gun for Drug Industry; Drug Companies Appear to Have Given Seniors Group
Nearly $10 Million to Push Medicare Drug Bill Favored by Industry
- 7/16/02 1:08 PM
Committee to Free Lori Berenson:
OAS Rights Commission- Berenson's Human Rights
Violated- Peru Will Fight Decision In Inter-American Court
- 7/16/02 11:42 AM
Public Citizen:
GAO Report Confirms Criticisms of Meat Inspection
System
- 7/16/02 9:30 AM
People for the American Way:
People For the American Way Urgest Senate Judiciary
Committee to Reject Appeals Court Nominee Priscilla Owen; Ultra-Conservative Judicial
Activism on Reproductive Choice, Civil Rights, Consumer Rights and Worker Rights
Demonstrates That Owen Lets Personal Ideology Trump the Law
- 7/16/02 9:00 AM
Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence:
Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence Forum: How
Criminals Get Guns; Ease of Forging Gun Dealer Licenses Allows Criminals to Obtain
Guns
- 7/15/02 6:17 PM
Common Cause:
Common Cause Applauds Expected Senate Passage of
Sarbanes Accounting Reform Bill
- 7/15/02 3:40 PM
US Rep Carolyn Maloney:
Why Is President Bush Letting Domestic Politics
Interfere With Helping Women Around the World?
- 7/15/02 2:28 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Interviews Available on Corporate Accountability
- 7/15/02 2:00 PM
The Wilderness Society:
Forest Fires: Facts and Fiction from The Wilderness
Society
- 7/15/02 1:44 PM
Public Citizen:
Bush Campaign Contributors Try to Railroad Amtrak
Passengers; Privatization Plan Smacks of More Crony Capitalism
- 7/15/02 12:18 PM
Sierra Club:
Bush Administration May Cause Failure of Environmental
Summit; Group Says Polluter-Friendly Approach at Odds with Summit's Sustainability
Goals
- 7/15/02 9:56 AM
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty:
New Report Examines Lethal Injection Drugs
- 7/15/02 8:00 AM
The Wilderness Society:
Forest Service Continues to Blow Smoke: Why the
USFS Report on Appeals is Wrong
- 7/15/02 3:39 AM
Green Party of the US:
Bush Environmental Policies Are Aggravating A Global
Crisis, Warns Greens
- 7/13/02 10:41 AM
School of the Americas Watch:
School of the Americas Protesters Lock Gate to
Fort Benning After 37 Activists Sentenced
- 7/13/02 12:26 AM
School of the Americas Watch:
Human Rights Activists Sentenced to Prison for
Civil Disobedience at School of the Americas
- 7/12/02 3:20 PM
Alliance for Justice:
Alliance for Justice Launches First Monday 2002
Campaign: Civil Liberties In a New America
- 7/12/02 1:10 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Universal Healthcare, Police Brutality, Marijuana
Policy
- 7/12/02 10:05 AM
Sierra Club:
Judge Chastises Administration in Cheney Energy
Task Force Suit
- 7/10/02 12:01 AM
Childrens Defense Fund:
Corporate Welfare vs. Child Welfare: Congressional
Scorecard Reveals Who Chose Children
- 7/09/02 6:47 PM
Sierra Club:
Hazardous Nuclear Waste Coming to a Road or Rail-Line
Near You; Senate Approves Nuclear Waste Storage Facility at Yucca Mountain
- 7/09/02 2:52 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Bush's Version of "Corporate Responsibility"
- 7/09/02 2:23 PM
NARAL:
House Panel Plays Politics With Women's Health,
Holds Hearing On So-Called 'Partial-Birth' Abortion Ban - NARAL
- 7/04/02 7:18 PM
Women for Afghan Women:
Afghan-Americans to Protest Civilian Casualties
in Afghanistan ; Unprecedented Picket Will Be Held Outside White House at Noon
on Friday, July 5
- 7/03/02 11:58 AM
Drug Policy Alliance:
40,000 Signatures to be Filed With DC Board of
Elections for Drug Treatment Instead of Incarceration Initiative; Measure to Help
Prevent Drug-Related Crime and Save Money Expected on District’s November
Ballot
- 7/03/02 11:17 AM
Ralph Nader/ Citizen Works:
Ralph Nader, Advocates to Discuss Needed Reforms
to Address the Corporate Crime Wave
- 7/03/02 10:51 AM
Sierra Club:
Sierra Club to EPA: Stop Pooh-Poohing Dangers of
Sewage Sludge; New Report Warns That More Study and Better Enforcement Is Needed
Protect Human Health
- 7/02/02 7:05 PM
National Organization for Women:
Bush Still Clueless on Welfare Reform: NOW Condemns
Backward Family Values
- 7/02/02 5:59 PM
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission:
"Cairo 52" Trial Begins in Egypt... Again;
IGLHRC Protests Double Jeopardy
- 7/02/02 4:40 PM
Congressman Bernie Sanders:
Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rep. Sherrod Brown
(D-OH) To Hold Symposium on "Corporate Control of The Media"
- 7/02/02 4:24 PM
Vietnam Environmental Conference:
International Conference on Long-term Consequences
of Modern Warfare; Vietnam Environmental Conference To be held in Stockholm, July
26-28
- 7/02/02 3:15 PM
AFL-CIO:
Coalition Releases New Analysis of Privatization,
Denounces Bush Plan to Keep Social Security Privatization Secret; Union Members
Call on Lawmakers to Pledge Publicly to Reject Privatization Plans
- 7/02/02 2:32 PM
People for the American Way:
U.S. Supreme Court Eroded Civil Rights, Liberties
In 2002; Next Justice Will Shape The Future Of Constitutional Protections
- 7/02/02 12:55 PM
Public Citizen:
Public Citizen Releases Database With Names of
1,111 "Questionable Doctors" in Texas – Most Still Practicing;
Consumers Can Search Online for Their Doctor
- 7/02/02 11:57 AM
US Public Interest Research Group:
New U.S. PIRG Report Documents Summer Vacations
At Risk
- 7/02/02 1:28 AM
School of the Americas Watch:
37 Human Rights Activists Stand Trial for Civil
Disobedience at School of the Americas
- 7/01/02 9:27 PM
Bluewater Network:
California Legislature Passes Groundbreaking Bill
to Reduce Auto-Related Global Warming Pollution; Historic Bill Now Awaits Governor
Davis's Signature
- 7/01/02 4:43 PM
Worldwatch Institute:
Beyond Cloning: The Risks of Rushing Into Human
Genetic Engineering
- 7/01/02 4:31 PM
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA):
Groups Vow to Block Export of NYC Garbage to Caribbean,
Demand Real Solutions
- 7/01/02 4:22 PM
Center for the Science in the Public Interest:
USDA Urged To Test More Beef For Deadly Bacteria;
“Nick of Time” Testing Not Good Enough, Experts Say
- 7/01/02 1:37 PM
National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA):
Park Advocates Call Bush Clear Skies Initiative
a Smokescreen for Polluter-Friendly Regulatory Policy; No Clear Skies in Sight
for Endangered Park
- 7/01/02 12:01 PM
Sierra Club:
Superfund Cuts Leave Communities with Toxic Waste
and Taxpayers with the Bill
- 7/01/02 11:08 AM
US Public Interest Research Group:
Bush Policies Would Make Air Smoggier; Activists
Challenge Administration Halt Its Attack on Clean Air Rules
- 7/01/02 10:36 AM
Clean Air Trust:
Clean Air Trust Reacts To EPA Media Stunt In The
Great Smoky Mountains
- 7/01/02 9:47 AM
ACT-UP:
AIDS Activists Criticize Coca-Cola's in New York
Gay Pride Parade June 30, 2002
- 7/01/02 9:30 AM
Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel (JPPI):
JPPI Congressional Report Card Shows Most Members
of Congress Support Unbalanced U.S. Policy on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- 7/01/02 8:00 AM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Interviews Available: Some Major Civil Liberties
Issues
* June 2002
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