WASHINGTON - February 23 - A 50-member international delegation will attempt to cross the Egyptian border into war-torn Gaza early next month, carrying 2,000 gift baskets to pay tribute to the incredibly resilient, beleaguered Gazan women on International Women's Day, March 8.

WASHINGTON - February 18 - In a public service announcement released today, Dr. James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, calls on Americans to join him on March 2nd at the Capitol Power Plant in the largest display of civil disobedience in U.S. history to demand national action on global warming (see: http://vimeo.com/3268481).  

WASHINGTON - February 5 - Members of Military Families Speak Out from across the U.S. will hold a solemn procession from Arlington National Cemetery to the White House beginning at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday February 7th to bring President Obama the message that they want him to bring an immediate end to the war in Iraq that has already claimed the lives of over 4,200 U.S.

PETTUS, W.Va. - February 3 - This morning five activists, who had chained themselves to a bulldozer and an excavator, and one videographer were arrested for trespassing at a mountaintop removal site.  By afternoon, dozens of local residents, friends and supporters from throughout Appalachia converged at the mine's gate.  Eight more citizens were arrested in the afternoon action.  

WASHINGTON - February 3 - Key human rights groups are urging President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to take a simple step that will right a seven-year wrong: they want him to lift the Bush administration's appeal of Judge Ricardo Urbina's order to release the 17 Uighurs imprisoned in Guantanamo. This act would let stand Judge Urbina's order to bring the men into the United States immediately. Part of a Muslim ethnic minority in China, the Uighurs would likely face persecution by the Chinese government if returned to China.