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Newswire - April, 2011

Saturday April 30, 2011

9:56 PM
Congressman Dennis Kucinich: Obama Doctrine Allows for Regime Change by Assassination

Friday April 29, 2011

4:26 PM
Human Rights Watch: Egypt: Military Trials Usurp Justice System
4:23 PM
Sierra Club: Agreement Reached to Retire Only Coal-Fired Power Plant in Washington
2:21 PM
Consumers Union: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB): A Financial Watchdog In Washington For Consumers
12:52 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy: Torturer at Royal Wedding as Monarchies “Hijack” Uprisings
12:29 PM
Center for Media & Democracy: Tell President Obama to Publish his Executive Order on Campaign Finance Disclosure
12:03 PM
Americans for Safe Access: Obama DOJ Conducts Aggressive Medical Marijuana Raids in Spokane as Bill Hits WA Governor's Desk
11:44 AM
Voces de la Frontera and National AFL-CIO Prepare for Historic "Wisconsin Solidarity March for Immigrant and Worker Rights"
11:42 AM
CSPI: Proposed Federal Standards for Foods Marketed to Children Praised
11:22 AM
Human Rights Watch: UN: Rights Body Should Investigate Syrian Crackdown
11:07 AM
World Council for Renewable Energy: 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Atomic Power Disaster
11:01 AM
Center for American Progress: Extreme Weather Cost Lives, Health, Economy
10:24 AM
Human Rights Watch: Iran: Investigate Reported Killings of Demonstrators

Thursday April 28, 2011

3:31 PM
Public Citizen: Solution to Big Oil’s Skyrocketing Profits: Windfall Profits Tax, End Subsidies
3:27 PM
Public Citizen: Radioactive Waste Report Released, Public Citizen Recommends ‘No’ Vote on Legislation
1:46 PM
Defenders of Wildlife: Rep. Pearce Leads Anti-Conservation Rally with Oil and Gas Industry
1:43 PM
PEER: Assembly Line Injustice for Federal Whistleblowers
1:42 PM
Kucinich Challenges PR Stunt on Manning, Pentagon Offers No Answers, Only Contrivance
1:18 PM
Drug Policy Alliance: Mother's Day Launch of New National Campaign: Moms United to End War on Drugs
1:05 PM
League of Women Voters: DOJ Decision Allowing Georgia to Block Voter Registration Undermines Voting Rights
12:52 PM
Center for American Progress: Big Oil Receives Huge Profits and Taxpayer Subsidies, Maintains High Gasoline Prices at Pump
12:51 PM
Friends of the Earth: New Report Reveals ‘Dirty Business’ Practices of TransCanada Pipelines
12:40 PM
CREW: Most Yoo Emails Won't Be Found
12:39 PM
ForestEthics American Express and Chase Targeted for Junk Mail at Annual Credit Card Conference in Miami
11:37 AM
Campaign for America’s Future: Washington’s Fixation with Austerity is Hurting the Economy
11:30 AM
Public Citizen: As Obama Meets with Panama’s President Martinelli, U.S.-Panama Trade, Tax Agreement Folly Comes into Focus
11:28 AM
Sierra Club Launches Interactive Map of U.S. Coal-fired Power Plants
11:21 AM
Center for American Progress: Florida Shouldn't Make Arizona's Immigration Mistake
11:17 AM
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center Release Handbook on Zoning and Fair Housing to Assist in Development of Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance
9:34 AM
Amnesty International: Bahrain Urged to Halt Execution of Protesters

Wednesday April 27, 2011

4:23 PM
Violence Policy Center: Killings by Persons Allowed to Legally Carry Concealed Handguns Reach 300—VPC Concealed Carry Killers April Update
4:18 PM
Farm Sanctuary: Jason Schwartzman Voices New Film Exploring the Environmental Impacts of Our Food Choices
4:01 PM
Common Cause: President Should Require Federal Contractors to Disclose Political Spending
3:08 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Assessing Panetta at Pentagon, Petraeus at CIA
3:02 PM
ACLU Appeals Dismissal of Lawsuit Against Wal-Mart for Firing Cancer Patient Who Legally Used Medical Marijuana
2:07 PM
Free Press: Public Interest Groups Call on FCC to Combine Review of AT&T Acquisitions
2:06 PM
ICBL-CMC Launches "Investing in Action" to Support Local Campaigns in 2011
2:02 PM
Friends of the Earth: Watchdog Group Charges Buffett with Swindling Iowans over New Nuclear Reactor
12:39 PM
NRDC and IUCN: On Thin Ice: New Report Identifies 13 Vulnerable Arctic Treasures as Ice Melts, Industry Moves In
12:03 PM
ACLU: DHS Announces Indefinite Suspension of Controversial and Ineffective Immigrant Registration and Tracking System
11:12 AM
Human Rights Watch (HRW): Syria: Arab States Should Push for End to Killings
10:31 AM
Worldwatch Institute: Blue Revolution Key to Getting "More Crop per Drop" and Strengthening Food Security

Tuesday April 26, 2011

8:30 PM
CEPR: Cost of Medicare Equivalent Insurance Skyrockets under Ryan Plan
4:52 PM
Kucinich Plan to Lower Gas Prices: Windfall Profits Tax
3:16 PM
Public Citizen: Twenty-Five Years After Chernobyl Disaster, History Repeats Itself
3:04 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy: EPA Office of Civil Rights “Dysfunctional”
2:37 PM
Amnesty International Urges U.S. Government to Demand Concrete Human Rights Progress in U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue
1:32 PM
Amnesty International: Leaked Guantanamo Files Highlight Need for Fair Trials and Accountability, Says Amnesty International
1:19 PM
Witness Against Torture: Close Guantanamo with Justice Now
1:17 PM
Worldwatch Institute: End of Nuclear
12:46 PM
Greenpeace: Indian Point the next Chernobyl, Fukushima?
12:40 PM
Strengthen Social Security: Members of Congress to Feel the Heat in Home Districts This Week After Votes to Cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
12:11 PM
Human Rights Watch: Gaza: Suspicious Death in Custody
12:08 PM
Amnesty International: UN Must Act Now on Sri Lanka War Crimes Report
12:01 PM
Violence Policy Center: Household Gun Ownership Hits New Low--Fewer Than One Out of Three American Households Has a Gun
11:23 AM
Senator Bernie Sanders: Banks Play Shell Game with Taxpayer Dollars
11:10 AM
NPCA: New Colorado River Study Finds Water Uses Impair the Health of National Parks in the Southwest

Monday April 25, 2011

6:07 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): WikiLeaks and Torture
5:19 PM
Congressman Dennis Kucinich Scores Administration on Guantánamo
4:04 PM
Veterans for Peace: Obama Declares Manning Guilty Before Trial
3:59 PM
CCR Executive Director Says Guantánamo Leaks Must Be Met by Release of Obama Task Force Assessments
2:25 PM
Friends of the Earth: New Poll Shows Iowans Oppose Paying for New Nuclear Reactor
2:24 PM
Doctors Without Borders: Johnson & Johnson Turns Its Back on AIDS Patients
2:08 PM
ACLU: Guantánamo Documents Underscore Need for Independent Judicial Review

Friday April 22, 2011

4:58 PM
Public Citizen: Obama’s Gas-Price Task Force Should Also Examine Legal Speculation of Markets
4:55 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy: Drone Use in Libya, Pakistan Condemned
1:34 PM
Physicians for Human Rights Report on Bahrain Provides First Forensic Evidence of Attacks on Physicians, Medical Staff, Patients and Unarmed Civilians with Weapons, Beatings, and Tear Gas
1:12 PM
One Wisconsin Now: Will Scott Walker File Complaint With District Attorney over Recall ‘Shots for Signatures’ Like He Did in 2000?
12:47 PM
Nuclear Information and Resource Service: Anti-Nuclear Actions Planned Across US to Commemorate Chernobyl and Fukushima Disasters
12:01 PM
PFAW: The ‘Green Dragon’ Slayers: How the Religious Right and the Corporate Right are Joining Forces to Fight Environmental Protection

Thursday April 21, 2011

4:59 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Targeting Environmentalists
4:20 PM
Rainforest Action Network (RAN): Texan Takes Fight Against Tar Sands Pipeline to Citigroup
4:18 PM
Free Press: With Proposed Merger, AT&T Hopes to ‘Monopolize Everything’
3:48 PM
Worldwatch Institute: Nuclear Power After Fukushima
3:43 PM
Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence (ICHV) and the Brady Campaign: Shocking Revelations From State Police on Dangerous Gaps in Mental Health Records
3:37 PM
ACLU in Federal Court in Michigan Today to Challenge Juvenile Life Without Parole
3:30 PM
Center for Biological Diversity: Lawsuit Seeks to Rescue Pacific Walrus From Indefinite Wait for Endangered Species Protection
1:45 PM
Government Accountability Project: Watchdogs Attack Bill for Gag Authority on Current or Retired Intelligence Whistleblowers
1:38 PM
ACLU Client Agrees to Life in Prison After Death Sentence Thrown Out Because of False Testimony
1:25 PM
Amnesty International Urges Italian Authorities to Avert Another Humanitarian Crisis and Desist From Summary Removals
1:11 PM
Environmental Working Group (EWG) Prenatal Pesticide Exposure Linked to Diminished IQ
12:19 PM
IATP Announces the 2011–2013 Food and Community Fellows
12:11 PM
Cornucopia Institute: Largest Organic Milk Bottler Accused of Misrepresenting Products

Wednesday April 20, 2011

6:00 PM
ACLU: Supreme Court Limits Ability of Prisoners to Seek Redress for Violations of Religious Rights
5:48 PM
Earthjustice: House Republicans Move to Open Forest Lands to Development
5:22 PM
Turtle Island Restoration Network: U.S. Earns Failing Grades for BP Oil Spill Response and Repair in Gulf of Mexico
5:18 PM
National Whistleblowers Center Calls on EPA to Oust Civil Rights Director
4:29 PM
National Priorities Project: Opposing Budget Plans
4:26 PM
Americans for Safe Access: Clemency Sought for Medical Marijuana Patient, Cancer Survivor Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison
3:25 PM
Sanders Says Congress is ‘Way Out of Touch’ on Budget Priorities
3:18 PM
Rights Groups: EEOC Lawsuit Filed Today Reinforces Indian Guestworkers’ Claims of Abuse After Hurricane Katrina
2:44 PM
Conservation Groups Appeal Ruling on Failure to Designate Critical Habitat for Endangered Florida Panther
2:03 PM
Amnesty International USA: Torture and Arbitrary Arrest Continue in Egypt, Despite Disbanding of Feared Security Forces, Amnesty International Reports, Urging Immediate Reforms
1:26 PM
Amnesty International: Egypt: Investigate Security Forces Crimes Now
1:20 PM
Audubon Society: Groups Tell Congress:Get Together and Get Gulf Restoration Done
1:07 PM
Rainforest Action Network: Community Calls for Shutdown of Chicago’s Crawford Coal Plant
11:19 AM
Amnesty International: Bradley Manning to be Moved to New Detention Center
11:19 AM
National Nurses United: Nurses Launch “Wheel of Misfortune”
10:50 AM
Sierra Club: One Year after the BP Disaster: Gulf Communities are Still in Crisis
10:23 AM
Greenpeace: New Oil Spill Site Puts Thousands of Confidential Documents Online
9:54 AM
Rising Tide North America: Groups to Mark Gulf Oil Spill Anniversary With Actions Against Corporate Fossil Fuel Extraction
9:14 AM
Center for Biological Diversity: One Year After Gulf Disaster: Reforms Left Unaddressed, New Offshore Drilling Must Be Halted

Tuesday April 19, 2011

5:19 PM
National Organization for Women: It's 'Shock and Awe' for Women, the Middle Class and the Poor
4:34 PM
Beyond Nuclear Petitions US NRC for Suspension of 21 Atomic Reactor Licenses in Wake of Japanese Nuclear Catastrophe
3:38 PM
Peace Action / Peace Action West: Congress's Budget-Cutting Rhetoric Doesn't Match Votes on Pentagon Spending
3:28 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy: Pickens’ Gas Fracking Offensive Debunked
3:07 PM
Sierra Club Tests Hundreds Nationwide for Levels of Toxic Mercury in their Bodies
2:21 PM
Union of Concerned Scientists: Federal Agencies Scheduled to Report to White House This Week On Status of New Scientific Integrity Policies
1:24 PM
Kucinich Downgrades Rating of Standard & Poor’s
1:08 PM
AFL-CIO: CEOs Collect Raises, Workers Collect Pink Slips
12:17 PM
Center for Biological Diversity: Forest Service's New Mexico Road Plan a Financial Boondoggle That Puts Wildlife, Watersheds at Risk
11:25 AM
Public Citizen: A Year Since BP Disaster: How Much We’ve Learned, How Little We’ve Changed
11:12 AM
PFAW: David Barton’s Christian Nation: Sham ‘Historian’ Hits the Big Time in Tea Party America
11:11 AM
Amnesty International: Libya: International Community Must Urgently Increase Aid to Misratah
10:19 AM
Human Rights Watch: AU: Press Libya to Obey African Court’s Order
10:13 AM
Kucinich to Introduce Legislation to End the War in Libya

Monday April 18, 2011

5:04 PM
Global Exchange and Council of Canadians: One Year After BP Oil Disaster, UN General Assembly to Debate Whether Nature Has Rights
4:25 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): From Cairo: Egypt’s Military Leading the Counter-Revolution?
3:10 PM
Haiti Grassroots Watch: Haiti – Seeding Reconstruction or Destruction?
2:45 PM
Congressman Dennis Kucinich: U.S. Foreign Policy Should Be Consistent and Honest
2:44 PM
Center for Constitutional Rights Responds to Supreme Court Denial of Review in Guantánamo Habeas Case
2:42 PM
Greenpeace Response to Entergy's Lawsuit Against Vermont
2:40 PM
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Urges Global Uptake of Effective & Safe Malaria Solutions
2:38 PM
Food & Water Watch: One Year Later, Gulf Still Suffering from Environmental, Health Consequences of Unprecedented Dispersant Use
12:21 PM
National Whistleblowers Center: Tax Day Reminder: Biggest Tax Whistleblower in History Remains in Prison
11:43 AM
Worldwatch Institute: Agriculture: The Unlikely Earth Day Hero
11:39 AM
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER): Loss of Streams and Wetlands Will Widen with New Corps Rules
11:22 AM
US PIRG: Off-Shore Tax Havens Cost U.S. Taxpayers $434 a Year

Friday April 15, 2011

6:11 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy: Breaking: Arab Democracy Protests in D.C.
5:44 PM
SEIU: Vote on Extreme House Republicans’ Budget Shows Who Stands With Working Families
4:41 PM
US PIRG: House Budget a Very Bad Deal for the Public
3:51 PM
US PIRG: House Budget Slashes Oil-Saving Forms of Transportation
3:50 PM
Amnesty International Urges Restraint by Iraqi Authorities at Camp Ashraf as Government Forces Mass
3:28 PM
Amnesty International Urges Azerbaijani Authorities to Stop Targeting Peaceful Protesters
3:16 PM
Center for Constitutional Rights: CCR Statement Against the Pence Provision
3:12 PM
NARAL Pro-Choice America: Outraged Americans Tell Boehner to Stop the Rape Audits Bill
3:08 PM
Kucinich Wins $8 Million Dollars for Gulf War Illnesses Research
2:09 PM
Friends of the Earth: State Department Releases Supplemental Environmental Analysis on Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline
2:00 PM
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood: Screen-Free Week: April 18-24, 2011 Children Around the Country to Turn Off Screens and Turn on Life!
1:25 PM
Center for Constitutional Rights: ICE Begins Second Round of Deportations to Haiti During Humanitarian Crisis
1:04 PM
Center for Biological Diversity: Proposal Would Prematurely Strip Endangered Species Act Protections From Gray Wolves in Great Lakes Region
12:28 PM
Institute for One Wisconsin Report: ‘We’re Not Broke: The Truth About The Wisconsin Budget, Taxes and Governor Walker's Phony Fiscal Crisis’
12:01 PM
ACLU: Georgia Legislature Passes Racial Profiling Law
11:53 AM
FAIR: Stop Blacking Out Progressive Protests
11:03 AM
Bread for the World: Hungry and Poor People Hit Hard by FY 2011 Budget Cuts
8:29 AM
RootsAction: Fix the Budget with a Wall Street Tax
8:24 AM
Move to Amend: Feel Good on Tax day. Tell the Corporate Tax Cheats How You Feel!

Thursday April 14, 2011

3:24 PM
US PIRG: Senator Lautenberg Introduces Bill to Protect Public Health, Reform Toxics Policy
3:23 PM
ACLU: Justice Department Wrong to Let Torture Lawyers Off the Hook
3:20 PM
Equality California and Gay-Straight Alliance Network: California Senate Passes Landmark LGBT Education Bill
2:54 PM
ACLU: Bill to Provide Equality in Immigration Sponsorship Introduced in Congress
2:11 PM
NLIHC: Housing and Community Development Advocates to Congress: Budget Deal Hurts Communities, Low Income Families
1:48 PM
Americans United Criticizes Appeals Court Ruling Dismissing Challenge to National Day of Prayer
1:23 PM
Congressman Dennis Kucinich: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Admits that Stripping Collective Bargaining Rights of Workers “Not a Fiscal Issue” – Does Not Save Taxpayers “Any” Money
1:20 PM
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): Spanish Judge Drops Case Against Bush Lawyers
1:18 PM
Common Cause: Statement by Bob Edgar on Today’s House Oversight Committee Hearing
1:15 PM
Center for Biological Diversity: One Year After Gulf Oil Disaster, Significant Dangers Remain Unaddressed
12:41 PM
America's Voice: Diverse Group of Democrats Line Up for DREAM Act, Call for Administrative Relief for DREAM-Eligible Youth
12:01 PM
ACLU: Landmark Bill Introduced in Senate Today to Ban Workplace Discrimination Based on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
11:59 AM
Friends of the Earth: New Report Details Consequences of World Bank’s Fossil Fuel Binge
11:40 AM
Amnesty International Calls on Syrian President to Rein in Security Forces After Violent Crackdown
11:34 AM
CEPR: New Report Looks at Economic Growth Rebound for Low- and Middle-Income Countries Over the Last Decade
10:55 AM
Bradley Manning Support Network: Mistreatment of Manning Criticized by Leading Law Professors & UN Torture Investigator
10:04 AM
Brave New Foundation: On Eve of Tax Day, Republican and Democratic Congressmembers Rally Against America’s Hard Earned Income Going to Fund the War in Afghanistan; Veterans, Other Groups to Join

Wednesday April 13, 2011

8:19 PM
Food Rights Network: Filmmaker Deborah Koons Calls Out Sewage-Sludgers for Ecoterrorism Smear
7:06 PM
United for a Fair Economy / Responsible Wealth: Tax Plan a Good Start – Must Go Further
6:53 PM
CCR and ECCHR Obama Administration to Spanish Judge: We Won’t Investigate Bush Lawyers’ Role in Torture
6:51 PM
NRDC: House Committee Disregards Safety, Reality with Offshore Drilling Legislation
6:37 PM
Environmental Working Group (EWG) Soil Erosion in Corn Belt Is Much Worse Than Official Estimates
3:47 PM
Greenpeace: Facebook Users Break Guinness World Record and Tell The Social Networking Giant To Choose Renewable Energy
3:29 PM
Woolsey Joins Progressive Colleagues in Offering The People’s Budget
3:21 PM
Institute for Policy Studies: Make Tax Dodgers Pay Up
3:08 PM
Experts: As Traditional Banks Fail to Meet More and More Local Needs, Community Investing Poised to Break Through to Mainstream in 2011
3:06 PM
Congressman Dennis Kucinich Describes “Kafkaesque” Experience with DoD Over Manning
2:16 PM
National Priorities Project: Analysis of Federal Budget Agreement
2:07 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Fracking and T. Boone Pickens’ Myths
2:04 PM
PFAW: The Bullying Advocates: Report Exposes the Religious Right's Effort to Stop Anti-Bullying Programs in Schools
1:17 PM
NLHIC Urges Housing Advocate to Take Action on Crucial Budget Vote
12:29 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): * Medicare * Real Deficit “Courage”
12:24 PM
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood: Advocates Urge FTC to Stop Your Baby Can Read's Deceptive Marketing
12:22 PM
Earthjustice: Congress Tries to Undercut Clean Air Protections for Arctic Ocean Oil Drilling
12:20 PM
Cornucopia Institute: Watchdog: Organic Valley, Herbruck's Violating Federal Organic Standards with Factory Farm Egg Production
11:08 AM
National Nurses United to President Obama: Don’t Cut Healthcare, Retirement; Raise Corporate Taxes, End Wars
11:08 AM
Violence Policy Center: NRA Gets Millions From Gun Industry "Corporate Partners" New Study Reveals
10:49 AM
Basel Action Network: UN Expert Meeting Charts the Way Forward on Hazardous Chemicals in Electronic Products
9:54 AM
Human Rights Watch (HRW): Bahrain: Suspicious Deaths in Custody

Tuesday April 12, 2011

6:28 PM
Earthjustice: EPA Plans to Exempt California Power Plant from Pollution Laws
5:55 PM
Earthjustice: Gray Wolves and Wild Lands Targeted in Federal Budget
5:19 PM
Physicians for Social Responsibility: Fukushima Equal to Chernobyl
4:39 PM
US PIRG: Budget Deal Kills Program to Improve Health Care Choices and Competition
4:36 PM
ACLU: On Equal Pay Day, ACLU Welcomes Reintroduction Of Paycheck Fairness Act
4:34 PM
Environmental Working Group: Government Warns of Health Risks from Hair Straighteners
4:31 PM
Food & Water Watch: Water Quality Programs in the EPA Account for Nearly 3 Percent of Cuts to Federal Budget in New Agreement
4:27 PM
Public Citizen: Corporate Interests Give More Than Their Two Cents in Financial Reform Implementation, New Public Citizen Report Says
4:11 PM
Amnesty International: UN Report on Sri Lanka Conflict Must Be Made Public
4:06 PM
Consumers Union Warns Congress that AT&T/ T-Mobile Merger means Higher Prices, Less Satisfied Customers
3:57 PM
Center for Biological Diversity: Precedent-setting Move Would Strip Endangered Species Act Protection From Wolves in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon
3:09 PM
Senator Bernie Sanders Calls Budget Robin Hood in Reverse
3:00 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy: Japan Disaster to Level Seven: “The Explosion of Nukespeak”
2:59 PM
PFAW: 2011 Budget Deal Includes Costly, Ineffective and Constitutionally Troubling Voucher Program in DC
2:41 PM
PFAW: Republicans Set to Deny Preventative Healthcare to Women
2:14 PM
Congressmen Kucinich to UN on Libya: Will UN Mandate Now Give Way to Regime Change?
1:49 PM
ACLU: Senate Bill Introduced Today To Protect Internet Privacy
1:25 PM
SEIU: Extremist Republicans' Attack on Women, Planned Parenthood Could Put Lives at Risk
1:09 PM
US PIRG: New Survey Shows Banks Still Hiding Fees from Consumers
1:04 PM
Center for Biological Diversity: A Year After Gulf Oil Spill, New Report Tallies Full Cost of Wildlife Disaster
12:50 PM
Center for American Progress: Ryan’s Budget Attempts to End Medicare and Shift Costs to Seniors
12:46 PM
Free Gaza Movement: We Will Not Be Intimidated
12:22 PM
Human Rights Watch: Israel/Gaza: Protect Civilians From Attack
12:12 PM
ACLU Asks Louisiana To Clarify That New Mothers Do Not Need To Sacrifice Privacy To Obtain Birth Certificates
11:52 AM
Amnesty International: Iraqi Authorities Must Halt Attacks on Protesters
11:51 AM
National Organization for Women: Gender Wage Gap, Current Threats to Economic Justice Linked
11:08 AM
Human Rights Watch: US: Pressure Allies to End Child Soldier Use
9:23 AM
Public Citizen: The Fair Elections Now Act: A Declaration of Independence for Congress
9:21 AM
Food Rights Network / Organic Consumers Association: Sally Brown and BioCycle Magazine, Supporters of Growing Food in Sewage Sludge, Call Organic Food Advocates “Ecoterrorists”
9:20 AM
Human Rights Watch (HRW): Syria: Security Forces Barring Protesters from Medical Care
8:18 AM
Friends of the Earth Remains Strongly Opposed to U.S.-Colombia Trade Deal

Monday April 11, 2011

4:38 PM
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW): Canada’s Sealhunt: Is It Worth It?
4:34 PM
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) Releases Food Additives Mobile App
4:30 PM
Pesticide Action Network North America: On Healthy Schools Day, School & Environmental Leaders Call for Reducing Pesticide Risks at California Schools
4:28 PM
Union of Concerned Scientists: Science Group Launches Web Feature that Estimates Clean Air Act Benefits
3:56 PM
Responsible Wealth: With Shutdown Averted, Wealthy Citizens Call for Higher Taxes on Themselves as Part of Long-Term Solution: Urge Return to Higher Tax Rates on Capital Gains and Dividend Income
3:32 PM
CEPR: Current PEs Make Risk-Free Rate of Return on Public Pensions Highly Unlikely
3:13 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): $1.6 Trillion Spent on Military; Global Day of Action
1:09 PM
Free Press: National Conference for Media Reform Wraps in Boston
1:01 PM
Amnesty International: Women in France Banned From Wearing the Veil in Public
11:33 AM
Global Access Project AIDS Activists Arrested Taking Over Republican Leader Eric Cantor’s Office Protest “Compromise” Global Budget Cuts and Syringe Exchange Ban for DC
11:30 AM
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER): Strong Federal Action Needed Now at Toxic New Jersey Dupont Site

Friday April 8, 2011

5:51 PM
Campaign for America’s Future: TV Spots Remind Rep. Cantor’s Constituents about His Social Security “Cannot Exist” Remarks
5:00 PM
SEIU: U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement: No Guarantees for an End to Violence Against Union Leaders
4:42 PM
NIRS: NRC Rules UniStar Ineligible to Receive License to Build Calvert Cliffs-3 Nuclear Reactor
4:30 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy: “Unnecessary Austerity”
3:22 PM
Free Press Kicks Off 2011 National Conference for Media Reform
3:17 PM
United for a Fair Economy: Group Applauds Congressional Progressive Caucus for "True Courage" with People's Budget
2:54 PM
Public Citizen: Obama’s Korea Trade Deal Undermines Future of U.S. Auto Industry, Government Report Finds
2:18 PM
Amnesty International: State Department Human Rights Reports Provide Roadmap to Reform in the Middle East, Says Amnesty International
2:08 PM
ForestEthics: Enbridge’s B.C. Oil Cleanup Plans Challenged after Michigan Oil Spill Video Surfaces
2:02 PM
Kucinich Responds to Office of Legal Counsel’s Twisted Rationale for Libyan War
1:20 PM
One Wisconsin Now: Van Hollen-Chisholm Election Integrity Task Force Must Investigate Largest Potential Election Fraud Case in Wisconsin History
12:59 PM
Center for Biological Diversity: More than 22,000 Pledge Support for Saving Imperiled Bluefin Tuna
12:38 PM
Planned Parenthood: Statement from Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Regarding the Final Day of Budget Negotiations
12:11 PM
AFL-CIO: Statement by President Richard Trumka On Federal Budget Choices
11:38 AM
Center for Biological Diversity: Three New Scientific Studies Confirm Lead Poisoning of Wildlife Due to Hunting Ammunition
10:55 AM
NLIHC: Joint Statement from Housing Groups on Public Housing Funding in the FY11 Budget
10:12 AM
Human Rights Watch: Bahrain: State of Fear Prevails With Arbitrary Detentions, Pre-Dawn Raids

Thursday April 7, 2011

9:35 PM
One Wisconsin Now: Election Returns: What Went On in Waukesha?
4:17 PM
Center for Biological Diversity: House Passes Legislation to Gut America’s Most Important Pollution Law
4:13 PM
SEIU’s Medina: Reckless Behavior by ICE Officers Must Stop Immediately
3:43 PM
Institute for Policy Studies: Unnecessary Austerity, Unnecessary Shutdown
3:03 PM
IEER: More Stringent, Coordinated Fukushima Fallout Monitoring Needed to Determine Radioactive Iodine Risk to US Milk and Water;
2:51 PM
ACLU Joins Broad Coalition to Urge Government Spending on Schools, Not Prisons
2:22 PM
ACLU: Arkansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Parenting Ban As Contrary to Children’s Welfare
2:17 PM
Institute for Policy Studies: Unnecessary Austerity, Unnecessary Shutdown
1:05 PM
ACLU Charges High-Speed Florida Foreclosure Courts Deprive Homeowners of Chance to Defend Homes
1:03 PM
PNHP: Vermont Health Bill Mislabeled ‘Single Payer’: Doctors’ Group
12:34 PM
Cornucopia Institute: Stop the Corporate Takeover of Organics
12:27 PM
Campaign for America’s Future Announces a Project Designed to Hold Lawmakers Accountable to the Middle Class: TheMiddleClass.Org
11:33 AM
Oxfam: Thousands Pour Over Ivory Coast Border with More on Their Way
10:35 AM
Amnesty International USA: Serbia Urged to Stop Forced Evictions of Roma, Says Amnesty International in New Report
9:32 AM
National Organization for Women: It's Up to Democrats to Stop GOP Assault on Women, Children, Seniors and the Poor

Wednesday April 6, 2011

6:43 PM
Government Accountability Project: Senate Reintroduces Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act
5:49 PM
ACLU Settlement Ensures Proper Medical Treatment for Pregnant Mothers in Montana Jail
5:49 PM
Union of Concerned Scientists: Internal NRC Documents Reveal Doubts About Measures to Ensure U.S. Plants Survive Fukushima-Type Events
5:48 PM
People For the American Way (PFAW): Glenn Beck Leaves Fox to Spend More Time With His Chalkboard
5:41 PM
Public Citizen: The 'Down With Dodd-Frank’ Routine
5:37 PM
Human China: Release Artist and Critic Ai Weiwei
2:42 PM
Rainforest Action Network: Statement in Solidarity with Long Teran Kenan Community in Indonesia
1:45 PM
NRDC: 700,000-Ton Cleanup Settlement Reached in Jersey City Toxic Chromium Case
1:30 PM
Common Cause: Statement by Bob Edgar on introduction of Fair Elections Now Act
12:31 PM
Center for American Progress: Ryan’s Unbelievable Path to Prosperity
11:47 AM
Human Rights Watch: West Bank/Gaza: Stop Harassing Journalists
11:37 AM
Human Rights Watch: China: Release Artist and Critic Ai Weiwei
11:35 AM
Kucinich: We Don’t Want Apocalypse Now. We Want Peace, Prosperity and Jobs. Now.
10:39 AM
Oxfam: Rich Countries’ Failed Commitments Deprive Poor of $18bn
10:06 AM
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER): Call to Regulate Drilling on National Wildlife Refuges
9:34 AM
Children's Defense Fund: From the Children’s Congress to the Corporations’ Congress: House Budget Proposal Robs Children and Rewards Corporations

Tuesday April 5, 2011

4:16 PM
Rainforest Action Network: New Report Card Exposes Largest Financers of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
4:03 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy: Social Security “Facts”
3:39 PM
Human Rights Watch: Libya: Abandoned Weapons, Landmines Endanger Civilians
3:14 PM
Families USA: Through $1.43 Trillion in Cuts, House Republican Budget Slashes Funding for Seniors’ Health and Long-Term Care
2:45 PM
Sierra Club Groups to Interior Department: Put Clean Energy First
2:08 PM
US PIRG: Pell Grant Cut Would Lead to Massive Financial Aid Disruptions
1:59 PM
Consumers Union Calls on House to Reject Net Neutrality Repeal
1:57 PM
Center for Biological Diversity: Georgia Wildlife Officials Criticized for Rattlesnake Roundup Permit
12:53 PM
Campaign for America’s Future: Ryan’s Roadmap to Ruin: Caters to the Wealthy and Would Bury the Middle Class
12:02 PM
Human Rights Watch: Syria: Stop Shooting Protesters
11:54 AM
Corporate Accountability International: Statement: NYC's Move to Curb Junk Food Toy Giveaways a Plus for Children’s Health
11:45 AM
Food & Water Watch: No Matter What Happens on Friday, Government Likely to Shut Down Food & Water Protections
10:13 AM
Public Citizen: One Year After Upper Big Branch Explosion, Little Has Changed
9:50 AM
Amnesty International: USA: U-Turn on Trial Forum for 9/11 Suspects Betrays Human Rights

Monday April 4, 2011

5:43 PM
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): In Admission of Political Failure Obama Administration Reverses and Will Try 9/11 Defendants in Flawed Military Commissions
5:41 PM
Free Press: Appeals Court to Verizon and MetroPCS: Not So Fast
5:18 PM
Amnesty International: Holder Announcement Abandoning Federal Trials for 9/11 Suspects Is Shameful Political Compromise, says amnesty international
4:30 PM
Constitution Project Condemns Administration Policy Reversal on 9/11 Trial
4:17 PM
Peaceful Tomorrows: Family Members of 9/11 Victims Express Profound Disappointment in Response to Announcement that Khalid Sheik Mohammed Will Be Tried on Guantanamo
3:52 PM
Government Accountability Project: House Republican Leadership Asked Senator to Place "Secret Hold" on Federal Whistleblower Bill
3:32 PM
Friends of the Earth: TEPCO Implementing Massive Discharge of Nuclear Waste into Open Ocean
3:30 PM
Center for Biological Diversity: Obama Administration Fails to Protect Rare Glacier National Park Insect Threatened With Climate-caused Extinction
3:19 PM
Common Cause: Disappointed, Common Cause Urges Presidential Leadership on Campaign Reform
3:13 PM
Doctors Without Borders: Libya: MSF Evacuates 71 War-Wounded From Misrata by Boat
3:11 PM
ICBL: Campaign Pushes for Progress on Landmine Treaty
3:09 PM
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): Supreme Court Fails to Take on Key Guantanamo Cases
3:06 PM
Human Rights Watch (HRW): Mexico: Investigate Enforced Disappearances in Ciudad Juarez
12:44 PM
Americans United Condemns Supreme Court Ruling Dismissing Challenge to State Aid to Arizona Religious Schools
12:40 PM
ACLU Report Calls for Greater Oversight of Texas Lethal Injection Protocols
11:57 AM
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER): Gulag EPA - Report Finds Discrimination Meltdown
11:25 AM
Environmental Working Group (EWG) Utilities Knew of Chrome-6 Contamination for Years
11:24 AM
Amnesty International: China Detains Ai Weiwei as Warning Against Dissent

Friday April 1, 2011

5:40 PM
Friends of the Earth / Beyond Nuclear: FDA’s Comparison of Radiation in Milk to Everyday Exposures Called ‘Improper’
5:06 PM
Center for Constitutional Rights: Former Guantanamo Detainees Should Have Chance To Clear Their Name
4:20 PM
US PIRG: New Report: Toxic Chemicals in Consumer Products Increasingly Linked to Public Health Problems
3:34 PM
ACLU Urges House To Support Bill Challenging President’s Use Of Force In Libya Without Congressional Approval
3:00 PM
Nuclear Information and Resource Service: Sign Petition to Support Japanese People, Expand Evacuation Zone
1:51 PM
Campaign for America’s Future Encourages Americans to Join “We are One” Events on April 4th
1:35 PM
Campaign for America’s Future Jobs Numbers: We Need To Create More Jobs
1:23 PM
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Statement by Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on the March Employment Report
1:02 PM
Institute for Public Accuracy: “Exposed: The U.S.-Saudi Libya Deal”
10:17 AM
Doctors Without Borders: Libya: MSF Reiterates Calls for Urgent, Unhindered Access to Wounded
10:01 AM
Public Citizen: Restricting EPA Is Not the Way to Deal With Budget
9:55 AM
ForestEthics: Premier Clark: Protect the Great Bear Rainforest, Urge Forest Conservation Groups from Three Continents
8:59 AM
NRDC: President Obama Needs to Send Clear, Strong Signal-No Policy Riders
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