Dillard's Department Store to Sponsor Fundraiser for Racist, Anti-Abortion Billboards What's in fashion for spring? According to one branch of Dillard's department store, racism and anti-abortion extremism. The American Independent reports that the Southern department store giant's Memorial City location in Houston, TX, is set to sponsor a fashion show fundraiser for Heroic Media, behind a series of race-baiting anti-abortion billboards creating controversy across the country. A North Austin office with Heroic Media erected a billboard in New York City with an image of a young Black girl next to the words "the most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb." Billboard directed viewers to crisis pregnancy centers, which are non-medical, ideologically driven outfits that use shame, misinformation, and scare tactics to convince women not to have abortions. Heroic Media supporters will model nautical-themed fashions provided by Dillard's for attendees who pay the $50 entry fee. A $5000 donation buys the opportunity to model in the show. “We try to not get too political,” Brophy told The American Independent. “We’re about fashion. We try to appeal to the masses.” But Heroic Media’s billboards are not about fashion -- they are about a racist message that insinuates Black women are ill-equipped to make choices about their bodies and are, by their very existence, dangerous. Dillard's needs to hear from customers that standing next to a racist organization with extreme, anti-woman views isn't cute.
Eduardo Gonzalez Every day many women are whistled, receive verbal assault or other kinds of gender-based violence. According to an argentine writer there is also richness in obscene language. In March 3 a movement was dedicated to abolish women street harassment. It was not taken into account street harassment is just harassment but it also includes physical and violent forms of abuse and women are creating a culture that is accepting gender violence.
Help Save the Nation's First Curbside Recycling Program The nations looking for cut costs, they can speak to critical budget crises . . . . And one of the programs is the Ecology Center’s (EC) curbside recycling (program in Berkeley, California). The city paid last year to have a consultant examine the cost of the contracted program compared to the cost of the city (the consultant's report recommended in favor of this) but it was flawed. President of Applied Compost Consulting, Inc., and Solid Waste Group Manager for Environmental Science Associates, who has consulted for the city numerous times on waste reduction, recycling, and composting program development, refinement, and expansion in the past 20 years. The EC is working hard and it created a petition to the (Berkeley) city council here on change, and they are working to public that. Numerous citizens have showed support for the recycling program. ABC News reported that both the Council and the residents agreed on that. (The Mayor and City Council) hear, before pursuing solutions that will not save money, and will dismantle the innovative recycling. Name: Carolina Forero.
Help Save the Nation's First Curbside Recycling Program The nations looking for cut costs, they can speak to critical budget crises . . . . And one of the programs is the Ecology Center’s (EC) curbside recycling (program in Berkeley, California). The city paid last year to have a consultant examine the cost of the contracted program compared to the cost of the city (the consultant's report recommended in favor of this) but it was flawed. President of Applied Compost Consulting, Inc., and Solid Waste Group Manager for Environmental Science Associates, who has consulted for the city numerous times on waste reduction, recycling, and composting program development, refinement, and expansion in the past 20 years. The EC is working hard and it created a petition to the (Berkeley) city council here on change, and they are working to public that. Numerous citizens have showed support for the recycling program. ABC News reported that both the Council and the residents agreed on that. (The Mayor and City Council) hear, before pursuing solutions that will not save money, and will dismantle the innovative recycling. Name: Carolina Forero.
Help Save the Nation's First Curbside Recycling Program The nations looking for cut costs, they can speak to critical budget crises . . . . And one of the programs is the Ecology Center’s (EC) curbside recycling (program in Berkeley, California). The city paid last year to have a consultant examine the cost of the contracted program compared to the cost of the city (the consultant's report recommended in favor of this) but it was flawed. President of Applied Compost Consulting, Inc., and Solid Waste Group Manager for Environmental Science Associates, who has consulted for the city numerous times on waste reduction, recycling, and composting program development, refinement, and expansion in the past 20 years. The EC is working hard and it created a petition to the (Berkeley) city council here on change, and they are working to public that. Numerous citizens have showed support for the recycling program. ABC News reported that both the Council and the residents agreed on that. (The Mayor and City Council) hear, before pursuing solutions that will not save money, and will dismantle the innovative recycling. Name: CAROLINA FORERO
Blanca Gonzalez son had spent many years in jail; he was forced to drink contaminated water which causes grave health problems. Because of her wish to do something, she decided to start by asking a change in the facility water problem. As every health organization has already tried to make them change the water problem, many dates have been made but they were all extended afterwards. She contacted Change.org for help in her issue and a post about it on the page, after some time she is taken seriously by California’s top prison officials. Mother of criminals are in favor of her protests stating that they wish the prison officials would stop poisoning their criminals. Gonzales wishes to thank everybody’s support in a campaign to solve this problem. Gonzales was amazed that inside the prison nobody cared for the health of criminals, which number was approximately 5000. But the shocking results the campaign gives her show something totally different.
Andres Usma Kernan's statement comes after nearly 2,000 people signed a petition started by Blanca Gonzalez – the mother of an inmate she says was sickened by the prison's water -- demanding concrete action be taken to ensure Kern Valley State Prison provided safe drinking water. Gonzalez started the petition after she says her son was sickened by the water he had no choice but to drink.And Gonzalez isn't the only mother to make such claims. In an interview, Bertha Nava, whose son has been incarcerated at Kern Valley State Prison for more than five years, told Change.org her son had “mentioned to me that the water looked like part urine, part water – that it was very bad to drink.But the statement from California's top prison official not only fails to set a definitive deadline for fixing the water problem, it downplays the risks inmates face (see the statement for yourself). That – and the years worth of missed deadlines – suggests it's just not that big of a deal in the eyes of the state's top officials. “
LUIS FELIPE TRISTANCHO Member from Change.or want a to sign an anti-gay covenant. Many people doesm't want this, as Robert Schuller. He respect people's decisions. On Megachurch Schuller's family no were with him and start to invent other points of view. Robert said that childs wetre part of this problem because they be involve in bussines problems. Robert's family said that histheir father opinian is valuable and have to be recognize.
Help Save the Nation's First Curbside Recycling Program The nations looking for cut costs, they can speak to critical budget crises . . . . And one of the programs is the Ecology Center’s (EC) curbside recycling (program in Berkeley, California). The city paid last year to have a consultant examine the cost of the contracted program compared to the cost of the city (the consultant's report recommended in favor of this) but it was flawed. President of Applied Compost Consulting, Inc., and Solid Waste Group Manager for Environmental Science Associates, who has consulted for the city numerous times on waste reduction, recycling, and composting program development, refinement, and expansion in the past 20 years. The EC is working hard and it created a petition to the (Berkeley) city council here on change, and they are working to public that. Numerous citizens have showed support for the recycling program. ABC News reported that both the Council and the residents agreed on that. (The Mayor and City Council) hear, before pursuing solutions that will not save money, and will dismantle the innovative recycling. Name: Carolina Forero.
• I've been writing a lot to help with a campaign to make San Francisco the first city in the U.S. to end the distribution of unwanted copies of the Yellow Pages. In the process, I've met a man named Albert Kaufman, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being considered in Oregon. He's been asked a good question: "You might ask, why, when there is so much going wrong in the world, have I chosen to focus on phone books?" His answer? "I learned a while ago that it makes sense to focus on a thread, and keep on pulling, and somewhere along the way, the wastefulness and just downright pain in the ass to deal with of phonebooks got to me."
Farmworkers, Advocates Deliver Change.org Petition to Publix Last Saturday, a group of farmworkers and fair food advocates stood outside a Nashville Publix in cold, rainy weather to ask the company to help end the abuse and exploitation of farmworkers by paying them just a penny per pound more for tomatoes. The protest was the culmination of a tour of the Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum, which ended in Nashville -- an emerging market for Publix grocery stores. On Friday, the museum visited Vanderbilt University, where students and professors were able to see first-hand what modern-day slavery looks like in the U.S. "This sense that we can shrug off responsibility for the exploitation of the workers who feed the world is precisely what we are fighting,' said Caitlin Mitchell, rally organizer. "As shoppers and community members, we're demanding that Publix make fair labor standards part of their business, and pay farm workers a penny more per pound of tomatoes.” At the close of the protest, a group of advocates and farmworkers delivered 848 petition pages containing more than 31,000 signatures to Publix PR staffer Brenda Reid and the local district manager. But despite a lack of visible change from Publix in Nashville, it is undeniable that the Campaign for Fair Food is growing, and that it will only become more and more difficult for Publix to resist doing the right thing by farmworkers. The question is not whether or not Publix will eventually support an end to industry abuses, but when they'll do so.
The World Society for the Protection of Animals just announced a victory for companion animals in Korea — eBay has agreed to shut down pet sales on its Korean site, Auction.co.kr.Also among the complaints were that very young puppies were being sold, that the identity of buyers and sellers can't be fully monitored
• I've been writing a lot to help with a campaign to make San Francisco the first city in the U.S. to end the distribution of unwanted copies of the Yellow Pages. In the process, I've met a man named Albert Kaufman, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being considered in Oregon. He's been asked a good question: "You might ask, why, when there is so much going wrong in the world, I have chosen to focus on phone books?" His answer? "I learned a while ago that it makes sense to focus on a thread, and keep on pulling, and somewhere along the way, the wastefulness and just downright pain in the ass to deal with of phonebooks got to me."
California Domestic Workers Rally for the Right to Sleep, Eat In America, labor law excludes domestic workers from basic protections, like the right to sick days, overtime pay, or notice of termination. The nannies and nurses who take care of our children, our sick, our elderly should hold a respected position in our society -- in our families too -- but instead they're often underpaid and overworked. But California domestic workers say: no more. The vast majority of domestic workers are women, primarily immigrants and minorities, who often suffer sexual harassment and violence. I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that it would be immigrant women of color workers who get the short end of the stick when it comes to incredibly basic labor protections, like the right to sleep. The California bill would require that live-in employees receive at least five hours sleep per night. Another simple but important provision specific to live-in workers: the right to cook their own food. That's right: employers will expect them to feed their patients, who might have limited or unusual diets, but refuse these workers kitchen privileges to whip themselves up something more appealing. In America, labor law DOESN’T INCLUDE domestic workers from basic CARE, like the right to sick days, PAY EXTRATIME, or notice of termination. The nannies and nurses who take care of our children, our sick, our OLD should hold a respected position in our FAMILIES but instead they're often UNPAID and overworked. But domestic workers say: no more. The majority of domestic workers are women, MAINLY immigrants and LESS, who often suffer sexual BULLYNG and violence. I suppose it shouldn't be AMAZED that it would be immigrant women of color workers. Another simple but important QUIALITY specific to live-in workers: the right to cook their own food. That's right: WORKERS will expect them to feed their FAMILY, who might have limited or WEIRD diets, but refuse these workers kitchen GOODS to whip themselves up something more appealing.
In 2008, Howard Schultz returned to his former position as the president and CEO of Starbucks in order to help revamp the then-faltering coffee company. Schultz has now written a book about this experience, titled: Onward: How Starbucks Fought For Its Life Without Losing Its Soul. Starbucks began to phase in cage-free eggs a few years ago, but has yet to commit to a 100 percent cage-free egg policy. This is a major failing on the part of the coffee company. Battery cages are not only extremely cruel to chickens, the cage facilities also create environmental and public health dangers. In the last five years, there have been studies conducted on the rates of Salmonella in caged and cage-free eggs, and all thirteen of the studies found that eggs from caged hens had significantly higher rates of Salmonella. Starbucks claims to care about the health of its consumers, axing "unnecessary ingredients like high fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors, dyes, and artificial trans fats." But if they truly want to protect consumer health, Starbucks will drop the dangerous caged eggs from the menu. Evidenced by these new offerings, Starbucks recognizes that its customers want products that are healthier for people, for animals, and for the environment. Going cage-free seems to be the next logical step for the evolving Starbucks, and hopefully change will come soon. Schultz himself admitted to NPR just yesterday: "We've got a lot of work to do."
Would you expect the government to reward this person with a cushy job, where they would be tasked with making significant decisions about hiring?
Dixon has a past that is particularly controversial. In 2008, she was fired from the University of Toledo, after publishing a letter where she wrote that LGBT people were against God, that they should try to "cure" themselves of their sexual orientation, and that they deserved no legal protections from discrimination since their homosexuality was merely "a lifestyle choice."
The appointment has drawn the ire of many equal rights activists in the state of Michigan, given that Dixon's new appointment puts her directly in charge of overseeing human resources
The Persimmon Place HOA’s includes no running, no playing tag, and no playing at all in “common areas” or parking lots. In other words, kids can no longer be kids. HOA board member Kim Scott said of residents with children, “They came in and rented (a home) in a community that does not have a playground and is not conducive to kids. Then they expect the children to play in the driveways and parking lot’’. the national nonprofit KaBOOM! reported a similar story last year about a association in Methuen, Mass., which was fining families $500 for letting their kids play outside. The association was subsequently charged by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for discriminating against families with kids, and ultimately agreed to pay $130,000 to five families, plus a $20,000. KaBOOM!, which is dedicated to saving play for American children, started a petittion to tell the Persimmon Place HOA to quit its proposed ban before a final decision is made on April 29.
Dillard's Department Store to Sponsor Fundraiser for Racist, Anti-Abortion Billboards
ResponderEliminarWhat's in fashion for spring? According to one branch of Dillard's department store, racism and anti-abortion extremism. The American Independent reports that the Southern department store giant's Memorial City location in Houston, TX, is set to sponsor a fashion show fundraiser for Heroic Media, behind a series of race-baiting anti-abortion billboards creating controversy across the country. A North Austin office with Heroic Media erected a billboard in New York City with an image of a young Black girl next to the words "the most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb." Billboard directed viewers to crisis pregnancy centers, which are non-medical, ideologically driven outfits that use shame, misinformation, and scare tactics to convince women not to have abortions. Heroic Media supporters will model nautical-themed fashions provided by Dillard's for attendees who pay the $50 entry fee. A $5000 donation buys the opportunity to model in the show. “We try to not get too political,” Brophy told The American Independent. “We’re about fashion. We try to appeal to the masses.” But Heroic Media’s billboards are not about fashion -- they are about a racist message that insinuates Black women are ill-equipped to make choices about their bodies and are, by their very existence, dangerous. Dillard's needs to hear from customers that standing next to a racist organization with extreme, anti-woman views isn't cute.
Maria Luisa Camargo Franco.
Eduardo Gonzalez
ResponderEliminarEvery day many women are whistled, receive verbal assault or other kinds of gender-based violence. According to an argentine writer there is also richness in obscene language. In March 3 a movement was dedicated to abolish women street harassment. It was not taken into account street harassment is just harassment but it also includes physical and violent forms of abuse and women are creating a culture that is accepting gender violence.
Help Save the Nation's First Curbside Recycling Program
ResponderEliminarThe nations looking for cut costs, they can speak to critical budget crises . . . . And one of the programs is the Ecology Center’s (EC) curbside recycling (program in Berkeley, California). The city paid last year to have a consultant examine the cost of the contracted program compared to the cost of the city (the consultant's report recommended in favor of this) but it was flawed. President of Applied Compost Consulting, Inc., and Solid Waste Group Manager for Environmental Science Associates, who has consulted for the city numerous times on waste reduction, recycling, and composting program development, refinement, and expansion in the past 20 years. The EC is working hard and it created a petition to the (Berkeley) city council here on change, and they are working to public that. Numerous citizens have showed support for the recycling program. ABC News reported that both the Council and the residents agreed on that. (The Mayor and City Council) hear, before pursuing solutions that will not save money, and will dismantle the innovative recycling.
Name: Carolina Forero.
Help Save the Nation's First Curbside Recycling Program
ResponderEliminarThe nations looking for cut costs, they can speak to critical budget crises . . . . And one of the programs is the Ecology Center’s (EC) curbside recycling (program in Berkeley, California). The city paid last year to have a consultant examine the cost of the contracted program compared to the cost of the city (the consultant's report recommended in favor of this) but it was flawed. President of Applied Compost Consulting, Inc., and Solid Waste Group Manager for Environmental Science Associates, who has consulted for the city numerous times on waste reduction, recycling, and composting program development, refinement, and expansion in the past 20 years. The EC is working hard and it created a petition to the (Berkeley) city council here on change, and they are working to public that. Numerous citizens have showed support for the recycling program. ABC News reported that both the Council and the residents agreed on that. (The Mayor and City Council) hear, before pursuing solutions that will not save money, and will dismantle the innovative recycling.
Name: Carolina Forero.
Help Save the Nation's First Curbside Recycling Program
ResponderEliminarThe nations looking for cut costs, they can speak to critical budget crises . . . . And one of the programs is the Ecology Center’s (EC) curbside recycling (program in Berkeley, California). The city paid last year to have a consultant examine the cost of the contracted program compared to the cost of the city (the consultant's report recommended in favor of this) but it was flawed. President of Applied Compost Consulting, Inc., and Solid Waste Group Manager for Environmental Science Associates, who has consulted for the city numerous times on waste reduction, recycling, and composting program development, refinement, and expansion in the past 20 years. The EC is working hard and it created a petition to the (Berkeley) city council here on change, and they are working to public that. Numerous citizens have showed support for the recycling program. ABC News reported that both the Council and the residents agreed on that. (The Mayor and City Council) hear, before pursuing solutions that will not save money, and will dismantle the innovative recycling.
Name: CAROLINA FORERO
Julio Torres
ResponderEliminarBlanca Gonzalez son had spent many years in jail; he was forced to drink contaminated water which causes grave health problems. Because of her wish to do something, she decided to start by asking a change in the facility water problem. As every health organization has already tried to make them change the water problem, many dates have been made but they were all extended afterwards.
She contacted Change.org for help in her issue and a post about it on the page, after some time she is taken seriously by California’s top prison officials. Mother of criminals are in favor of her protests stating that they wish the prison officials would stop poisoning their criminals.
Gonzales wishes to thank everybody’s support in a campaign to solve this problem. Gonzales was amazed that inside the prison nobody cared for the health of criminals, which number was approximately 5000. But the shocking results the campaign gives her show something totally different.
Andres Usma
ResponderEliminarKernan's statement comes after nearly 2,000 people signed a petition started by Blanca Gonzalez – the mother of an inmate she says was sickened by the prison's water -- demanding concrete action be taken to ensure Kern Valley State Prison provided safe drinking water. Gonzalez started the petition after she says her son was sickened by the water he had no choice but to drink.And Gonzalez isn't the only mother to make such claims. In an interview, Bertha Nava, whose son has been incarcerated at Kern Valley State Prison for more than five years, told Change.org her son had “mentioned to me that the water looked like part urine, part water – that it was very bad to drink.But the statement from California's top prison official not only fails to set a definitive deadline for fixing the water problem, it downplays the risks inmates face (see the statement for yourself). That – and the years worth of missed deadlines – suggests it's just not that big of a deal in the eyes of the state's top officials.
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LUIS FELIPE TRISTANCHO
ResponderEliminarMember from Change.or want a to sign an anti-gay covenant. Many people doesm't want this, as Robert Schuller. He respect people's decisions. On Megachurch Schuller's family no were with him and start to invent other points of view.
Robert said that childs wetre part of this problem because they be involve in bussines problems.
Robert's family said that histheir father opinian is valuable and have to be recognize.
Help Save the Nation's First Curbside Recycling Program
ResponderEliminarThe nations looking for cut costs, they can speak to critical budget crises . . . . And one of the programs is the Ecology Center’s (EC) curbside recycling (program in Berkeley, California). The city paid last year to have a consultant examine the cost of the contracted program compared to the cost of the city (the consultant's report recommended in favor of this) but it was flawed. President of Applied Compost Consulting, Inc., and Solid Waste Group Manager for Environmental Science Associates, who has consulted for the city numerous times on waste reduction, recycling, and composting program development, refinement, and expansion in the past 20 years. The EC is working hard and it created a petition to the (Berkeley) city council here on change, and they are working to public that. Numerous citizens have showed support for the recycling program. ABC News reported that both the Council and the residents agreed on that. (The Mayor and City Council) hear, before pursuing solutions that will not save money, and will dismantle the innovative recycling.
Name: Carolina Forero.
• I've been writing a lot to help with a campaign to make San Francisco the first city in the U.S. to end the distribution of unwanted copies of the Yellow Pages. In the process, I've met a man named Albert Kaufman, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being considered in Oregon. He's been asked a good question: "You might ask, why, when there is so much going wrong in the world, have I chosen to focus on phone books?" His answer? "I learned a while ago that it makes sense to focus on a thread, and keep on pulling, and somewhere along the way, the wastefulness and just downright pain in the ass to deal with of phonebooks got to me."
ResponderEliminarNATALIA FRANCO
Farmworkers, Advocates Deliver Change.org Petition to Publix
ResponderEliminarLast Saturday, a group of farmworkers and fair food advocates stood outside a Nashville Publix in cold, rainy weather to ask the company to help end the abuse and exploitation of farmworkers by paying them just a penny per pound more for tomatoes. The protest was the culmination of a tour of the Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum, which ended in Nashville -- an emerging market for Publix grocery stores. On Friday, the museum visited Vanderbilt University, where students and professors were able to see first-hand what modern-day slavery looks like in the U.S. "This sense that we can shrug off responsibility for the exploitation of the workers who feed the world is precisely what we are fighting,' said Caitlin Mitchell, rally organizer. "As shoppers and community members, we're demanding that Publix make fair labor standards part of their business, and pay farm workers a penny more per pound of tomatoes.” At the close of the protest, a group of advocates and farmworkers delivered 848 petition pages containing more than 31,000 signatures to Publix PR staffer Brenda Reid and the local district manager. But despite a lack of visible change from Publix in Nashville, it is undeniable that the Campaign for Fair Food is growing, and that it will only become more and more difficult for Publix to resist doing the right thing by farmworkers. The question is not whether or not Publix will eventually support an end to industry abuses, but when they'll do so.
The World Society for the Protection of Animals just announced a victory for companion animals in Korea — eBay has agreed to shut down pet sales on its Korean site, Auction.co.kr.Also among the complaints were that very young puppies were being sold, that the identity of buyers and sellers can't be fully monitored
ResponderEliminar• I've been writing a lot to help with a campaign to make San Francisco the first city in the U.S. to end the distribution of unwanted copies of the Yellow Pages. In the process, I've met a man named Albert Kaufman, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being considered in Oregon. He's been asked a good question: "You might ask, why, when there is so much going wrong in the world, I have chosen to focus on phone books?" His answer? "I learned a while ago that it makes sense to focus on a thread, and keep on pulling, and somewhere along the way, the wastefulness and just downright pain in the ass to deal with of phonebooks got to me."
ResponderEliminarNATALIA FRANCO
California Domestic Workers Rally for the Right to Sleep, Eat
ResponderEliminarIn America, labor law excludes domestic workers from basic protections, like the right to sick days, overtime pay, or notice of termination. The nannies and nurses who take care of our children, our sick, our elderly should hold a respected position in our society -- in our families too -- but instead they're often underpaid and overworked. But California domestic workers say: no more. The vast majority of domestic workers are women, primarily immigrants and minorities, who often suffer sexual harassment and violence. I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that it would be immigrant women of color workers who get the short end of the stick when it comes to incredibly basic labor protections, like the right to sleep. The California bill would require that live-in employees receive at least five hours sleep per night. Another simple but important provision specific to live-in workers: the right to cook their own food. That's right: employers will expect them to feed their patients, who might have limited or unusual diets, but refuse these workers kitchen privileges to whip themselves up something more appealing.
In America, labor law DOESN’T INCLUDE domestic workers from basic CARE, like the right to sick days, PAY EXTRATIME, or notice of termination. The nannies and nurses who take care of our children, our sick, our OLD should hold a respected position in our FAMILIES but instead they're often UNPAID and overworked. But domestic workers say: no more. The majority of domestic workers are women, MAINLY immigrants and LESS, who often suffer sexual BULLYNG and violence. I suppose it shouldn't be AMAZED that it would be immigrant women of color workers. Another simple but important QUIALITY specific to live-in workers: the right to cook their own food. That's right: WORKERS will expect them to feed their FAMILY, who might have limited or WEIRD diets, but refuse these workers kitchen GOODS to whip themselves up something more appealing.
In 2008, Howard Schultz returned to his former position as the president and CEO of Starbucks in order to help revamp the then-faltering coffee company. Schultz has now written a book about this experience, titled: Onward: How Starbucks Fought For Its Life Without Losing Its Soul.
ResponderEliminarStarbucks began to phase in cage-free eggs a few years ago, but has yet to commit to a 100 percent cage-free egg policy. This is a major failing on the part of the coffee company.
Battery cages are not only extremely cruel to chickens, the cage facilities also create environmental and public health dangers. In the last five years, there have been studies conducted on the rates of Salmonella in caged and cage-free eggs, and all thirteen of the studies found that eggs from caged hens had significantly higher rates of Salmonella.
Starbucks claims to care about the health of its consumers, axing "unnecessary ingredients like high fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors, dyes, and artificial trans fats." But if they truly want to protect consumer health, Starbucks will drop the dangerous caged eggs from the menu.
Evidenced by these new offerings, Starbucks recognizes that its customers want products that are healthier for people, for animals, and for the environment. Going cage-free seems to be the next logical step for the evolving Starbucks, and hopefully change will come soon. Schultz himself admitted to NPR just yesterday: "We've got a lot of work to do."
Would you expect the government to reward this person with a cushy job, where they would be tasked with making significant decisions about hiring?
ResponderEliminarDixon has a past that is particularly controversial. In 2008, she was fired from the University of Toledo, after publishing a letter where she wrote that LGBT people were against God, that they should try to "cure" themselves of their sexual orientation, and that they deserved no legal protections from discrimination since their homosexuality was merely "a lifestyle choice."
The appointment has drawn the ire of many equal rights activists in the state of Michigan, given that Dixon's new appointment puts her directly in charge of overseeing human resources
Juan Pablo Grande
DIANA RUEDA
ResponderEliminarThe Persimmon Place HOA’s includes no running, no playing tag, and no playing at all in “common areas” or parking lots. In other words, kids can no longer be kids. HOA board member Kim Scott said of residents with children, “They came in and rented (a home) in a community that does not have a playground and is not conducive to kids. Then they expect the children to play in the driveways and parking lot’’. the national nonprofit KaBOOM! reported a similar story last year about a association in Methuen, Mass., which was fining families $500 for letting their kids play outside. The association was subsequently charged by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for discriminating against families with kids, and ultimately agreed to pay $130,000 to five families, plus a $20,000.
KaBOOM!, which is dedicated to saving play for American children, started a petittion to tell the Persimmon Place HOA to quit its proposed ban before a final decision is made on April 29.