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August 2001

8/31/01 6:02 PM
Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program:
Kangaroo Court Countdown Alert: Federal Register Notice Too Little Too Late: Five Days to Yucca Mountain Hearing in Las Vegas
8/31/01 4:28 PM
US Public Interest Research Group:
"Safe" Act Unsafe For The Budget; Energy Bill Takes Big Bite Out of Already Shrinking Surplus
8/31/01 3:38 PM
Council for a Livable World:
ABM Treaty and Missile Defense: Press Breakfast to Discuss Bush Plans, Upcoming Congressional Action
8/31/01 1:29 PM
American Friends Service Committee:
Peace Tour Promotes Understanding; Brings African Community Leaders to US Audiences
8/31/01 1:24 PM
Friends of the Earth:
MOX Plant: A Giant Nuclear Turkey; Official Plutonium Plant Study Fundamentally Flawed
8/31/01 10:51 AM
Common Cause:
New Report on Internet Governance Released
08/30/01 5:50 PM
Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program:
Kangaroo Court Countdown Alert: Las Vegas Yucca Mountain Hearing Relocates to Prison-like Complex: Six Days to Yucca Mountain Hearing in Las Vegas
08/30/01 4:24 PM
Amnesty International:
U.S. Must Address Domestic Racism At U.N. Conference; AIUSA Delegation Members To Provide Daily Updates
08/30/01 1:37 PM
Sierra Club:
Sierra Club Shows How Much You Can Save with Higher MPG; New Sierra Club Website Shows Americans How Much They Can Save At The Pump
08/30/01 11:00 AM
Clean Air Trust:
State Lawmakers To EPA: Don't Weaken Or Delay Clean-Diesel Rule
08/30/01 10:15 AM
Mobilization for Global Justice:
Global Justice Activists Denounce World Bank's Sham Disclosure Policy; Demonstration to be held today at World Bank
08/30/01 10:03 AM
Congressional Black Caucus:
Congressional Black Caucus Chair Joins Official U.S. Delegation to World Conference Against Racism
08/30/01 9:45 AM
National Housing Conference:
Labor Day Finds 3.7 Million Working Families With Critical Housing Needs
08/30/01 9:30 AM
The Commonwealth Fund:
New Report Documents Growing Disparities in Health Insurance for Women
08/29/01 3:50 PM
Voters For Choice:
Voters For Choice's Executive Director, Maureen Britell to be Honored at REDBOOK's 4th Annual Mothers & Shakers Awards for Her Work in Reproductive Healthcare
08/29/01 2:30 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Major International Issues: * Racism Conference * Israel's Occupation
08/29/01 1:53 PM
AFL-CIO:
AFL-CIO Hosts World’s Greatest Online Labor Day Festival; e-Activism, Online Union Karaoke and Labor Day greeting e-cards Share Stage with New Report on Workers’ Rights and More
08/29/01 12:52 PM
National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare:
Administration's Fiscal Missteps Have Real Consequences For Today's Seniors Says NCPSSM
08/29/01 12:30 PM
Urban Institute:
Health Insurance Subsidies for Low-Income Workers Most Efficient Way to Expand Coverage, Says New Urban Institute Report
08/29/01 9:37 AM
Sierra Club:
Sierra Club to Launch Ads Urging Congress to Pass Meaningful Campaign Finance Reform
08/28/01 11:10 PM
East Timor Action Network:
East Timor Holds First Free Elections August 30; New Country Moves Towards Full Independence with Refugee Crisis, Justice Issues Unresolved Interviews Available
08/28/01 6:15 PM
Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program:
DOE Should Cancel "Kangaroo Court"; Yucca Mountain Hearings Unjust, Unfair, Unacceptable
08/28/01 4:30 PM
U.S. Civil and Human Rights Leaders:
U.S. Civil and Human Rights Leaders Attending World Conference Against Racism Strongly Urge Bush Administration to Participate
08/28/01 3:33 PM
Greenpeace USA:
Greenpeace Activists Scale Massive Coal Pile At Salem, MA Power Plant
08/28/01 1:09 PM
Greenpeace USA:
Bush’s Missile Defense Taken To Court; Greenpeace a Plaintiff in Lawsuit to Halt Construction of Star Wars Site in Alaska
08/28/01 12:11 PM
Ms. Foundation for Women:
It Just Doesn't Add Up This Labor Day For Minimum Wage Workers; New Book Shows What People Need to Make Ends Meet; Calls For $8 Minimum
08/28/01 11:49 AM
Violence Policy Center:
Domestic Violence, Gun Control and Legal Experts to Discuss Implications of U.S. v. Emerson
08/28/01 10:20 AM
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA):
Federal Appeals Court Ruling Results in Provocative New PETA Web Site; PETA.org Belongs to Animal Rights Group, not Cybersquatter
08/28/01 12:01 AM
United for a Fair Economy:
Labor Day Report: Layoff Leaders Cushioned from Downturn . . . And CEO Pay Rises at No-tax Firms with Corporate Tax Rebates
08/27/01 7:41 PM
Media Alliance:
Coast-To-Coast Protests to Support 'Democracy Now!'
08/27/01 6:12 PM
Taxpayers for Common Sense:
The Dwindling Federal Budget Surplus
08/27/01 4:16 PM
Billionaires for Public Plunder:
Super-Rich Celebrate CBO Announcement of Lock Box Looting
08/27/01 4:12 PM
Union of Concerned Scientists:
NRC Ignores Widespread Safety Flaw for Decade; Two-thirds of nation's nuclear plants susceptible to dangerous cracking recently found in South Carolina plant
08/27/01 3:23 PM
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy:
Food First Releases a Special Report on the Risks and Unreliability of Genetically Engineered Crops; Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: The Myths, Environmental Risks, and Alternatives
08/27/01 1:41 PM
National Parks Conservation Association:
NPCA Challenges Haze in National Parks at EPA Hearing in Chicago; Conservation Group Calls for Greater Park Protection
08/27/01 10:55 AM
Mobilization for Global Justice:
Demands to be Delivered to World Bank and International Monetary Fund
08/24/01 12:38 PM
Green Party of the United States:
Green Party Blasts Bush's Reckless Agenda, But See Little Challenge from Democrats on Major Issues
08/24/01 12:10 PM
Taxpayers for Common Sense:
Federal Firefighters Target Communities With Little Fire Risk; Queens, NY Targeted for Federal Fire Prevention Efforts
08/24/01 10:55 AM
Friends of the Earth/Earthjustice:
Position Created for Watt Clone at Interior; Protege of James Watt Slips Under Senate Radar During Congressional Recess, Say Groups
08/23/01 7:41 PM
National Organization for Women:
NOW Celebrates Helms' Departure from Senate, Looks Toward Feminists to Fill Ultraconservatives' Seats
08/23/01 6:32 PM
Pacifica Campaign:
Pacifica Campaign Organizes Groundbreaking Bilingual Gathering to Reclaim Community Access to KPFK-Pacifica Radio
08/23/01 6:17 PM
Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
Alabama Congressman Prepares to Introduce Patently Unconstitutional 'Ten Commandments Act'; Americans United Calls Effort to Endorse Religion, Strip Federal Court Authority 'Reckless and Radical'
08/23/01 4:12 PM
American Civil Liberties Union:
ACLU Urges Halt to Use of Red-Light Cameras Until Privacy and Fairness Issues Are Addressed; Statement of Barry Steinhardt Associate Director, American Civil Liberties Union
08/23/01 2:02 PM
American Friends Service Committee:
AFSC Responds to Drought in Central America; Three months without rain brings hunger to Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala
08/23/01 1:30 PM
Center for Responsive Politics:
Party Fund-Raising Reflects Growing Reliance on Soft Money
08/23/01 1:26 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
Argentina and IMF: Interviews Available
08/23/01 12:26 PM
Violence Policy Center:
VPC Urges Federal Judge To Uphold Montgomery County Law Stopping Use Of Public Funds To Pay For Gun Shows
08/22/01 5:48 PM
Council for a Livable World:
Pentagon Declares War on Social Programs: Adjusted Surplus Pits Defense Versus Domestic
08/22/01 4:50PM
United for a Fair Economy:
Rebate & Switch: Shriveling Surplus Proves Tax Cut Irresponsible
08/22/01 3:40PM
Center for Responsive Politics:
Study Details Political Giving from Cuban-Americans
08/22/01 3:06 PM
People for the American Way:
People For the American Way President Ralph G. Neas Reacts to Senator Helms’ decision to leave the U.S. Senate at the End of His Term
08/22/01 2:53 PM
Political Research Associates:
Rights for Some: New Report Targets Erosion of Democracy
08/22/01 2:08 PM
Council for a Livable World:
The Empire Strikes Again: Administration Sets November Deadline for Russia to Agree to ABM Treaty Changes
08/22/01 1:55 PM
National Organization for Women:
Feminists Call for Strengthening Social Security, Not Peddling Privatization
08/22/01 1:51 PM
Pacifica Campaign:
Staff of Pacifica Radio’s Most Popular Show Suspended Without Pay; Fight to Save ‘Democracy Now!’ Moves to the Courts and the Streets
08/22/01 1:33 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy:
The Incredible Shrinking Surplus
08/22/01 1:28 PM
Health GAP Coalition:
South African AIDS Activists Sue Government; Struggle to save lives extends from the streets to the courtroom
08/22/01 1:12 PM
World Bank Bonds Boycott:
As DC Demonstrations Against World Bank Approach, Boulder City Council Adopts World Bank Bonds Boycott; City Joins 4 Municipalities, 12 Unions, 10 Investment Firms in Growing Boycott
08/22/01 11:46 AM
Public Citizen:
Dissatisfied Hair Restoration Patient Has Right to Criticize Company; Two Web Sites Critical of Bosley Medical Are Subject of Lawsuit; Critics Have a Right to Free Speech on the Internet, Public Citizen Says
08/22/01 11:31 AM
Voices in the Wilderness:
Ten Arrested at US Mission to the UN Protesting Sanctions of Iraq
08/22/01 11:21 AM
The Free Pacifica Fund:
Folk Rock Singer Dar Williams to Perform at Musical Garden Party Supporting the ‘Free Pacifica’ Radio Efforts
08/22/01 10:39 AM
Amnesty International:
USA: Time to End Double Standards and Respect the Consular Rights of Foreign Nationals Facing the Death Penalty
08/22/01 9:10 AM
Common Cause:
Statement of Common Cause President Scott Harshbarger on Secrecy at the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
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* July 2001