Organizations Call for Humane Dissection After Teacher Taunts Student With Dead Frogs
The technology offer opportunities to protect the environment and the feeling of the students. A teacher in Florida was accused at bullying and taunting a student for her refusal to dissect a frog. The teacher was temporary reassigned to other school in Florida. Human dissection advocates hope educators will prove they want a safe and compassionate classroom environment by switching to virtual dissection applications. A lot of users are asking for dissection alternatives, and a software company will support an application. The virtual application will be used to learn, and it costs less. Virtual dissections let the students learn more, because the user can repeat the steps at its own pace. Virtual dissection will protect the frogs from disappear. Frog dissections will disappear in public schools by 2014, and an amphibian advocacy organization is offering to purchase licensees for the software if the school stops dissecting frogs. Another organization offered to purchase the software if the teacher is fired. Something goodwill come from this incident. If the school buys the software, everybody will win: the school will prove it cares for the students and the environment, and organizations will save frogs from dissecting. CAROLINA FORERO
Organizations Call for Humane Dissection After Teacher Taunts Student With Dead Frogs The technology offer opportunities to protect the environment and the feeling of the students. A teacher in Florida was accused at bullying and taunting a student for her refusal to dissect a frog. The teacher was temporary reassigned to other school in Florida. Human dissection advocates hope educators will prove they want a safe and compassionate classroom environment by switching to virtual dissection applications. A lot of users are asking for dissection alternatives, and a software company will support an application. The virtual application will be used to learn, and it costs less. Virtual dissections let the students learn more, because the user can repeat the steps at its own pace. Virtual dissection will protect the frogs from disappear. Frog dissections will disappear in public schools by 2014, and an amphibian advocacy organization is offering to purchase licensees for the software if the school stops dissecting frogs. Another organization offered to purchase the software if the teacher is fired. Something goodwill come from this incident. If the school buys the software, everybody will win: the school will prove it cares for the students and the environment, and organizations will save frogs from dissecting. CAROLINA FORERO
Organizations Call for Humane Dissection After Teacher Taunts Student With Dead Frogs
The technology offer opportunities to protect the environment and the feeling of the students. A teacher in Florida was accused at bullying and taunting a student for her refusal to dissect a frog. The teacher was temporary reassigned to other school in Florida. Human dissection advocates hope educators will prove they want a safe and compassionate classroom environment by switching to virtual dissection applications. A lot of users are asking for dissection alternatives, and a software company will support an application. The virtual application will be used to learn, and it costs less. Virtual dissections let the students learn more, because the user can repeat the steps at its own pace. Virtual dissection will protect the frogs from disappear. Frog dissections will disappear in public schools by 2014, and an amphibian advocacy organization is offering to purchase licensees for the software if the school stops dissecting frogs. Another organization offered to purchase the software if the teacher is fired. Something goodwill come from this incident. If the school buys the software, everybody will win: the school will prove it cares for the students and the environment, and organizations will save frogs from dissecting. CAROLINA FORERO
Organizations Call for Humane Dissection After Teacher Taunts Student With Dead Frogs The technology offer opportunities to protect the environment and the feeling of the students. A teacher in Florida was accused at bullying and taunting a student for her refusal to dissect a frog. The teacher was temporary reassigned to other school in Florida. Human dissection advocates hope educators will prove they want a safe and compassionate classroom environment by switching to virtual dissection applications. A lot of users are asking for dissection alternatives, and a software company will support an application. The virtual application will be used to learn, and it costs less. Virtual dissections let the students learn more, because the user can repeat the steps at its own pace. Virtual dissection will protect the frogs from disappear. Frog dissections will disappear in public schools by 2014, and an amphibian advocacy organization is offering to purchase licensees for the software if the school stops dissecting frogs. Another organization offered to purchase the software if the teacher is fired. Something goodwill come from this incident. If the school buys the software, everybody will win: the school will prove it cares for the students and the environment, and organizations will save frogs from dissecting. CAROLINA FORERO
Rally for the Right to Know About GMOs in Your Food Unless you produce your own food or buy only organic, there's no way to know if your meals contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign aims to get one million people to publicly stand against GMOs by World Food Day on October 16, 2011. This week's "Right to Know" rally focuses on one of the biggest flaws in our food system the fact that GMOs or products containing GMOs don't require any kind of additional labeling. This complete lack, leaves consumers clueless as to whether they're eating all-natural or scientifically altered foods to the detriment of the environment, the sustainable food movement, and possibly human health. To that end, consumer activists plan to storm the Capitol and cities across the U.S. with one major message: "We have a right to know what, exactly, we are eating." Activists will give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other officials the message that genetically modified (GM) foods need to be labeled as such, but that's not all: Consumers will make three other demands. From the Millions Against Monsanto press release: "We want factory farmed animals and genetically modified animal products labeled. The demands are certainly comprehensive, and given the national uproar over the recent deregulation of GM alfalfa and sugar beets, there's no better time for this rally. In a recent MSNBC poll, 96 percent of respondents said that they wanted GMO foods to come with labels identifying them as genetically modified. Ninety-six percent! GM giants like Monsanto have assaulted our food system for too long, and it's encouraging to see such a huge number of consumers starting to really fight back. If you can't attend the rally but still want to protest GMOs in our food supply, fear not: There's still a way you can help. Tell these companies that you want them to ditch GMOs by signing the Institute for Responsible Technology's petition.
Rally for the Right to Know About GMOs in Your Food Unless you produce your own food or buy only organic, there's no way to know if your meals contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign aims to get one million people to publicly stand against GMOs by World Food Day on October 16, 2011. This week's "Right to Know" rally focuses on one of the biggest flaws in our food system the fact that GMOs or products containing GMOs don't require any kind of additional labeling. This complete lack, leaves consumers clueless as to whether they're eating all-natural or scientifically altered foods to the detriment of the environment, the sustainable food movement, and possibly human health. To that end, consumer activists plan to storm the Capitol and cities across the U.S. with one major message: "We have a right to know what, exactly, we are eating." Activists will give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other officials the message that genetically modified (GM) foods need to be labeled as such, but that's not all: Consumers will make three other demands. From the Millions Against Monsanto press release: "We want factory farmed animals and genetically modified animal products labeled. The demands are certainly comprehensive, and given the national uproar over the recent deregulation of GM alfalfa and sugar beets, there's no better time for this rally. In a recent MSNBC poll, 96 percent of respondents said that they wanted GMO foods to come with labels identifying them as genetically modified. Ninety-six percent! GM giants like Monsanto have assaulted our food system for too long, and it's encouraging to see such a huge number of consumers starting to really fight back. If you can't attend the rally but still want to protest GMOs in our food supply, fear not: There's still a way you can help. Tell these companies that you want them to ditch GMOs by signing the Institute for Responsible Technology's petition.
Rally for the Right to Know About GMOs in Your Food Unless you produce your own food or buy only organic, there's no way to know if your meals contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign aims to get one million people to publicly stand against GMOs by World Food Day on October 16, 2011. This week's "Right to Know" rally focuses on one of the biggest flaws in our food system the fact that GMOs or products containing GMOs don't require any kind of additional labeling. This complete lack, leaves consumers clueless as to whether they're eating all-natural or scientifically altered foods to the detriment of the environment, the sustainable food movement, and possibly human health. To that end, consumer activists plan to storm the Capitol and cities across the U.S. with one major message: "We have a right to know what, exactly, we are eating." Activists will give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other officials the message that genetically modified (GM) foods need to be labeled as such, but that's not all: Consumers will make three other demands. From the Millions Against Monsanto press release: "We want factory farmed animals and genetically modified animal products labeled. The demands are certainly comprehensive, and given the national uproar over the recent deregulation of GM alfalfa and sugar beets, there's no better time for this rally. In a recent MSNBC poll, 96 percent of respondents said that they wanted GMO foods to come with labels identifying them as genetically modified. Ninety-six percent! GM giants like Monsanto have assaulted our food system for too long, and it's encouraging to see such a huge number of consumers starting to really fight back. If you can't attend the rally but still want to protest GMOs in our food supply, fear not: There's still a way you can help. Tell these companies that you want them to ditch GMOs by signing the Institute for Responsible Technology's petition.
Rally for the Right to Know About GMOs in Your Food Unless you produce your own food or buy only organic, there's no way to know if your meals contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign aims to get one million people to publicly stand against GMOs by World Food Day on October 16, 2011. This week's "Right to Know" rally focuses on one of the biggest flaws in our food system the fact that GMOs or products containing GMOs don't require any kind of additional labeling. This complete lack, leaves consumers clueless as to whether they're eating all-natural or scientifically altered foods to the detriment of the environment, the sustainable food movement, and possibly human health. To that end, consumer activists plan to storm the Capitol and cities across the U.S. with one major message: "We have a right to know what, exactly, we are eating." Activists will give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other officials the message that genetically modified (GM) foods need to be labeled as such, but that's not all: Consumers will make three other demands. From the Millions Against Monsanto press release: "We want factory farmed animals and genetically modified animal products labeled. The demands are certainly comprehensive, and given the national uproar over the recent deregulation of GM alfalfa and sugar beets, there's no better time for this rally. In a recent MSNBC poll, 96 percent of respondents said that they wanted GMO foods to come with labels identifying them as genetically modified. Ninety-six percent! GM giants like Monsanto have assaulted our food system for too long, and it's encouraging to see such a huge number of consumers starting to really fight back. If you can't attend the rally but still want to protest GMOs in our food supply, fear not: There's still a way you can help. Tell these companies that you want them to ditch GMOs by signing the Institute for Responsible Technology's petition.
Rally for the Right to Know About GMOs in Your Food Unless you produce your own food or buy only organic, there's no way to know if your meals contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign aims to get one million people to publicly stand against GMOs by World Food Day on October 16, 2011. This week's "Right to Know" rally focuses on one of the biggest flaws in our food system the fact that GMOs or products containing GMOs don't require any kind of additional labeling. This complete lack, leaves consumers clueless as to whether they're eating all-natural or scientifically altered foods to the detriment of the environment, the sustainable food movement, and possibly human health. To that end, consumer activists plan to storm the Capitol and cities across the U.S. with one major message: "We have a right to know what, exactly, we are eating." Activists will give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other officials the message that genetically modified (GM) foods need to be labeled as such, but that's not all: Consumers will make three other demands. From the Millions Against Monsanto press release: "We want factory farmed animals and genetically modified animal products labeled. The demands are certainly comprehensive, and given the national uproar over the recent deregulation of GM alfalfa and sugar beets, there's no better time for this rally. In a recent MSNBC poll, 96 percent of respondents said that they wanted GMO foods to come with labels identifying them as genetically modified. Ninety-six percent! GM giants like Monsanto have assaulted our food system for too long, and it's encouraging to see such a huge number of consumers starting to really fight back. If you can't attend the rally but still want to protest GMOs in our food supply, fear not: There's still a way you can help. Tell these companies that you want them to ditch GMOs by signing the Institute for Responsible Technology's petition.
Rally for the Right to Know About GMOs in Your Food Unless you produce your own food or buy only organic, there's no way to know if your meals contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign aims to get one million people to publicly stand against GMOs by World Food Day on October 16, 2011. This week's "Right to Know" rally focuses on one of the biggest flaws in our food system the fact that GMOs or products containing GMOs don't require any kind of additional labeling. This complete lack, leaves consumers clueless as to whether they're eating all-natural or scientifically altered foods to the detriment of the environment, the sustainable food movement, and possibly human health. To that end, consumer activists plan to storm the Capitol and cities across the U.S. with one major message: "We have a right to know what, exactly, we are eating." Activists will give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other officials the message that genetically modified (GM) foods need to be labeled as such, but that's not all: Consumers will make three other demands. From the Millions Against Monsanto press release: "We want factory farmed animals and genetically modified animal products labeled. The demands are certainly comprehensive, and given the national uproar over the recent deregulation of GM alfalfa and sugar beets, there's no better time for this rally. In a recent MSNBC poll, 96 percent of respondents said that they wanted GMO foods to come with labels identifying them as genetically modified. Ninety-six percent! GM giants like Monsanto have assaulted our food system for too long, and it's encouraging to see such a huge number of consumers starting to really fight back. If you can't attend the rally but still want to protest GMOs in our food supply, fear not: There's still a way you can help. Tell these companies that you want them to ditch GMOs by signing the Institute for Responsible Technology's petition.
Rally for the Right to Know About GMOs in Your Food Unless you produce your own food or buy only organic, there's no way to know if your meals contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign aims to get one million people to publicly stand against GMOs by World Food Day on October 16, 2011. This week's "Right to Know" rally focuses on one of the biggest flaws in our food system the fact that GMOs or products containing GMOs don't require any kind of additional labeling. This complete lack, leaves consumers clueless as to whether they're eating all-natural or scientifically altered foods to the detriment of the environment, the sustainable food movement, and possibly human health. To that end, consumer activists plan to storm the Capitol and cities across the U.S. with one major message: "We have a right to know what, exactly, we are eating." Activists will give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other officials the message that genetically modified (GM) foods need to be labeled as such, but that's not all: Consumers will make three other demands. From the Millions Against Monsanto press release: "We want factory farmed animals and genetically modified animal products labeled. The demands are certainly comprehensive, and given the national uproar over the recent deregulation of GM alfalfa and sugar beets, there's no better time for this rally. In a recent MSNBC poll, 96 percent of respondents said that they wanted GMO foods to come with labels identifying them as genetically modified. Ninety-six percent! GM giants like Monsanto have assaulted our food system for too long, and it's encouraging to see such a huge number of consumers starting to really fight back. If you can't attend the rally but still want to protest GMOs in our food supply, fear not: There's still a way you can help. Tell these companies that you want them to ditch GMOs by signing the Institute for Responsible Technology's petition.
Andres Usma Activists continue to fight for the lives of HIV+ residents. Poverty and HIV/AIDS can be a deadly combination. For a person living with HIV to be at risk of becoming homeless is unacceptable. New York will see a surge in financial costs to assist these individuals, not to mention a potential public health nightmare. Taken by Bill Re-Introduced to Provide Housing Assistance for HIV+ New Yorkers by Rich Lombino & Elizabeth Lombino
eduardo gonzalez In a matter of days e mails have been sent expressing outrage to a recent New York times article. Arthur Brisbane, the editor posted an assessment. The assessment said that the article concerns about the ruined lives perpetrators without acknowledging concern for the victim. While the story appeared to be focusing in the community´s reaction to the crime the community is concerned te people involved. Brisbane post was not an apology and does not explain that balance doesn’t means giving equal weight for different concerns.
In a matter of days e mails have been sent expressing outrage to a recent New York times article. Arthur Brisbane, the editor posted an assessment. The assessment said that the article concerns about the ruined lives perpetrators without acknowledging concern for the victim. While the story appeared to be focusing in the community´s reaction to the crime the community is concerned te people involved. Brisbane post was not an apology and does not explain that balance doesn’t means giving equal weight for different concerns.
In a matter of days e mails have been sent expressing outrage to a recent New York times article. Arthur Brisbane, the editor posted an assessment. The assessment said that the article concerns about the ruined lives perpetrators without acknowledging concern for the victim. While the story appeared to be focusing in the community´s reaction to the crime the community is concerned te people involved. Brisbane post was not an apology and does not explain that balance doesn’t means giving equal weight for different concerns.
Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice demand United States agculturebecause they didn't reduce the organic alfalfa. They used less alfalfa and reduce it after the demand. It not the first time that United States agriculture were in a demand the Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice do it. The alfalfa is very hard case because it affect other industries.As feed for their cattle. The organic afalfa was going to be more difficult to be found so this don't help merchants.This material became more expensives and agricultors were in very hard contitions and meet and milk, cheese and other industries were in drougth to said like that. You can still take action. Join us in letting President Obama know that consumers need a thriving organic industry, and we are counting on him to protect it. We can help please collaborate in the law or rule thanks.
Organizations Call for Humane Dissection After Teacher Taunts Student With Dead Frogs
A teacher in Florida was accused at practicing bullying against a student who didnot wanted to do the dissection of frogs. The teacher was temporary reassigned to other school in Florida. Human dissection advocates hope educators will prove they want a safe and compassionate classroom environment by switching to virtual dissection applications. A lot of students are asking for the virtual dissection, because this way they can make the dissection slow step by step at their time, and also save the environment.
It is estimated that by 2014, every school will have the option to practice virtual dissection. If the school buys the software, everybody will win: the school will prove it cares for the students and the environment, and organizations will save frogs from dissecting.
Organizations Call for Humane Dissection After Teacher Taunts Student With Dead Frogs
A teacher in Florida was accused at bullying and taunting a student for her refusal to dissect a frog. The teacher was temporary reassigned to other school in Florida. Human dissection advocates hope educators will prove they want a safe and compassionate classroom environment by switching to virtual dissection applications. Studdents are asking for this because they could make it easier step by step at their own time, and the numer of killled frogs will reduce. Saving the frog population.
Something good will come from this incident. If the school buys the software, everybody will win: the school will prove it cares for the students and the environment, and organizations will save frogs from dissecting.
Organizations Call for Humane Dissection After Teacher Taunts Student With Dead Frogs
A teacher in Florida was accused at bullying and taunting a student for her refusal to dissect a frog. The teacher was temporary reassigned to other school in Florida. Human dissection advocates hope educators will prove they want a safe and compassionate classroom environment by switching to virtual dissection applications. Studdents are asking for this because they could make it easier step by step at their own time, and the numer of killled frogs will reduce. Saving the frog population.
Something good will come from this incident. If the school buys the software, everybody will win: the school will prove it cares for the students and the environment, and organizations will save frogs from dissecting.
Soldier Gets 24 Years for Killing 3 Afghan Civilians By WILLIAM YARDLEY
An Army soldier facing a court-martial here on Wednesday admitted to killing three Afghan civilians as part of a conspiracy to kill for sport. Specialist Morlock, one of five soldiers accused of killing the Afghans near Kandahar last year, had previously agreed in court documents to testify against the other defendants in exchange for his plea. Specialist Morlock, 22, of Wasilla, Alaska, is the first of the five soldiers to face a court-martial. He pleaded guilty on Wednesday to three charges of premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit murder, assault and other charges. Specialist Morlock gave several interviews to investigators, including some on videotape that have been broadcast nationally, in which he described how members of his unit, part of Stryker brigade deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010, faked combat situationsIn the interviews and in his plea offer, the soldier claimed that a superior, Staff Sgt. Calvin R. Gibbs, was the ringleader in the killings. Specialist Morlock and Sergeant Gibbs are the only soldiers accused in all three killings.
Coach Fabio Capello of England returned the captaincy to Jhon Terry after he tooked away last year because of personal problems that the soccer player had with his wife. The England captain said too that he is more older and wise and that he would keep the captaincy. Jhon Terry told too that he was surprise to get the armband back and that he was disappointed at the time but for him the most important thing was to get focus in the football playing.
Research in Motion has surprised Apple by announcing its new BlackBerry PlayBook. It is unexpected the success or failure of the BlackBerry tablet. This will be the first tablet competing directly with the Apple´s Corporation. As in Sun Life Financial, the tablet has produced a corporative interest. There have been some discusses about the two technologic invents, such as their appearance and software. Trying to adapt to the costumer´s benefits, it will be sold in different types of mechanism and in different space of gigabytes. And, even though many costumers have preferred to buy the IPad, the demands haven´t stopped. The expectations with the BlackBerry tablet are unexpected, but there are inferences that the consumers will prefer this, because of the use they had already experimented with the BlackBerry Smartphone. MARIA JOSE JAMETTE
Armed Students? Texas May Allow Concealed Guns On College Campuses Last year's shooting at the University of Texas at Austin, where a 19-year-old opened fire on students before killing himself, has gotten students riled up. Weinberg started a petition at Change.org against the new law which has been approved by the Texas House, allowing concealed carry on campus. "If I was in a class, and saw a gun in someone's bag, that would make me incredibly nervous," says Weinberg. Weinberg admits he's been shocked by shootings on campus like the one on his campus just last year or the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. But he says more weapons on campus aren't the answer. Weinberg has looked to chief of the campus police Robert E. Dahlstrom and the city police Art Acevedo for guidance on the matter. And while Weinberg acknowledges that there's a potential that a concealed weapon could be used to help in situations where a shooter opens fire on campus, he's concerned about the everyday situations college students encounter - drinking, parties, sexual assault and adolescent conflict - that could be made way more dangerous with concealed weapons. They cite a Department of Justice study that found that 93% of violent crimes that victimize college students occur off campus. Last year at the University of Texas at Austin, a 19-year-old FIGHTED WITH students before killing himself, GOT PEOPLE riled up. "If I was in a class, and saw a gun in someone's bag, that would make me REALLY nervous," says Weinberg. Weinberg KNOWS he's been shocked by shootings on campus. But he says more weapons on campus ARE NOT the answer. Weinberg has looked to chief of the campus police and the city police for ORIENTATION on THAT STUFF. And while Weinberg KNOW that there's a POSIBILITY that a HIDE weapon could be used to help in situations where a shooter STARTS fire on campus, he's WORRIED about the everyday situations college students LIVE - drinking, parties, sexual assault and adolescent conflict - that could be made SOLUTIONS more dangerous with concealed weapons. They SAID a Department of Justice study that found that 93% of violent crimes that victimize college students occur ON CAMPUSES.
Even the nuclear industry acknowledges that all nuclear power plants pose a risk to surrounding populations. No plant can be called 100 percent safe. Take a look at Indian Point in Buchanan, New York—the site of two 40-year-old nuclear reactors. Here is just one staggering fact: Twenty million people, or 6 percent of the U.S. population, reside within 50 miles of the facility—a facility that federal regulators acknowledge has an "unworkable" area evacuation plan in the event of a fast-acting disaster. Recent weeks, the events at Fukushima have renewed longstanding calls to close the facility.
In the past year traffic accidents have reduced, people killed in these accidents are less than in the past years.
Driving is getting much, more safe: althougt it may not seem that way, there have been lees deaths in the last 60 years.
An estimated 32,788 people were killed in traffic accidents in 2010, which represents a 25 percent decline since 2005, when there were 43,510 traffic fatalities, and the fewest deaths since 1949. “Last year’s drop in traffic fatalities is welcome news, and it proves that we can make a difference, we will continue doing everything possible to make cars safer. Old cars are being replaced by newer models with more safety features, including air bags and antilock brakes. Highways are built or refurbished with more attention to safety; Seat belt use is believed to be up. Whatever the explanation, the decline in deaths was not merely caused by the drop in driving. In 2005, there were 1.46 deaths for every 100 million miles traveled, and last year the rate dropped to 1.09. (In 1949, by comparing, the rate was 7.13.) Every other part of the country saw a decline.
In the past year traffic accidents have SHORTENED, people ANNIHILATED in these accidents are less than in the past years.
Driving is getting much, more safe: althougt it may not APPEAR that way, there have been lees deaths in the last 60 years.
A GUSSED 32,788 people were ERADICATED in traffic accidents in 2010, which SIMBOLISES a 25 percent decline since 2005, when there were 43,510 traffic fatalities, and the fewest deaths since 1949. “Last year’s drop in traffic fatalities is welcome news, and it AFFIRMS that we can CREATE a difference, we will ADVANCE doing everything possible to make cars safer. Old cars are being CHANGED by newer models with more safety features, ADDING air bags and antilock brakes. Highways are CREATED or CLEANED UP with more attention to safety; Seat belt use is CONSIDERED to be up.
Whatever the explanation, the decline in deaths was not merely caused by the drop in driving. In 2005, there were 1.46 deaths for every 100 million miles traveled, and last year the rate dropped to 1.09. (In 1949, by comparing, the rate was 7.13.) Every other part of the country saw a decline.
Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste?
Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon. Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again. Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter. The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition.
SUMMARY B: MELISSA CURE Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste? Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon. Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again. Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter. The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition.
SUMMARY B: MELISSA CURE Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste? Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon. Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again. Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter. The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition
SUMMARY B: MELISSA CURE Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste? Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon. Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again. Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter. The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition
SUMMARY B: MELISSA CURE Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste? Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon. Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again. Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter. The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition
SUMMARY B: MELISSA CURE Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste? Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon. Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again. Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter. The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition
Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste?
Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon.
Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again.
Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter.
The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important
Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition.
Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste?
Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon.
Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again.
Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter.
The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important
Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition.
Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste?
Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon.
Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again.
Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter.
The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important
Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition.
Diana Rueda President Obama visited El Salvador to discuss the drug trade, immigration, and security issues in the region with Salvadoran president Mauricio Funs. The murders of Salvadoran anti-mining activists, however, were not on the agenda. Pacific Rim conducted its first gold explorations in Cabañas. Residents that had previously noticed the effects of mines and dead animals were skeptical of a new, massive gold project. Local Salvadoran organizations responded by researching the environmental, social and economic impacts of mining.
DIANA RUEDA The world continues to mourn the loss of Berlin Zoo’s polar bear. Many fans are protesting to stuff the world's most famous polar bear for museum display.Unfortunately, this is not unusual for polar bears. Fur Harvesters Auction Inc, one of Canada's largest fur auction houses, says it cannot meet the demand for polar bear hides, which are used for displays in museums and airports or are made into bear skin rugs.
Organizations Call for Humane Dissection After Teacher Taunts Student With Dead Frogs
ResponderEliminarThe technology offer opportunities to protect the environment and the feeling of the students. A teacher in Florida was accused at bullying and taunting a student for her refusal to dissect a frog. The teacher was temporary reassigned to other school in Florida. Human dissection advocates hope educators will prove they want a safe and compassionate classroom environment by switching to virtual dissection applications. A lot of users are asking for dissection alternatives, and a software company will support an application. The virtual application will be used to learn, and it costs less. Virtual dissections let the students learn more, because the user can repeat the steps at its own pace. Virtual dissection will protect the frogs from disappear. Frog dissections will disappear in public schools by 2014, and an amphibian advocacy organization is offering to purchase licensees for the software if the school stops dissecting frogs. Another organization offered to purchase the software if the teacher is fired. Something goodwill come from this incident. If the school buys the software, everybody will win: the school will prove it cares for the students and the environment, and organizations will save frogs from dissecting.
CAROLINA FORERO
Organizations Call for Humane Dissection After Teacher Taunts Student With Dead Frogs
ResponderEliminarThe technology offer opportunities to protect the environment and the feeling of the students. A teacher in Florida was accused at bullying and taunting a student for her refusal to dissect a frog. The teacher was temporary reassigned to other school in Florida. Human dissection advocates hope educators will prove they want a safe and compassionate classroom environment by switching to virtual dissection applications. A lot of users are asking for dissection alternatives, and a software company will support an application. The virtual application will be used to learn, and it costs less. Virtual dissections let the students learn more, because the user can repeat the steps at its own pace. Virtual dissection will protect the frogs from disappear. Frog dissections will disappear in public schools by 2014, and an amphibian advocacy organization is offering to purchase licensees for the software if the school stops dissecting frogs. Another organization offered to purchase the software if the teacher is fired. Something goodwill come from this incident. If the school buys the software, everybody will win: the school will prove it cares for the students and the environment, and organizations will save frogs from dissecting.
CAROLINA FORERO
Organizations Call for Humane Dissection After Teacher Taunts Student With Dead Frogs
ResponderEliminarThe technology offer opportunities to protect the environment and the feeling of the students. A teacher in Florida was accused at bullying and taunting a student for her refusal to dissect a frog. The teacher was temporary reassigned to other school in Florida. Human dissection advocates hope educators will prove they want a safe and compassionate classroom environment by switching to virtual dissection applications. A lot of users are asking for dissection alternatives, and a software company will support an application. The virtual application will be used to learn, and it costs less. Virtual dissections let the students learn more, because the user can repeat the steps at its own pace. Virtual dissection will protect the frogs from disappear. Frog dissections will disappear in public schools by 2014, and an amphibian advocacy organization is offering to purchase licensees for the software if the school stops dissecting frogs. Another organization offered to purchase the software if the teacher is fired. Something goodwill come from this incident. If the school buys the software, everybody will win: the school will prove it cares for the students and the environment, and organizations will save frogs from dissecting.
CAROLINA FORERO
Organizations Call for Humane Dissection After Teacher Taunts Student With Dead Frogs
ResponderEliminarThe technology offer opportunities to protect the environment and the feeling of the students. A teacher in Florida was accused at bullying and taunting a student for her refusal to dissect a frog. The teacher was temporary reassigned to other school in Florida. Human dissection advocates hope educators will prove they want a safe and compassionate classroom environment by switching to virtual dissection applications. A lot of users are asking for dissection alternatives, and a software company will support an application. The virtual application will be used to learn, and it costs less. Virtual dissections let the students learn more, because the user can repeat the steps at its own pace. Virtual dissection will protect the frogs from disappear. Frog dissections will disappear in public schools by 2014, and an amphibian advocacy organization is offering to purchase licensees for the software if the school stops dissecting frogs. Another organization offered to purchase the software if the teacher is fired. Something goodwill come from this incident. If the school buys the software, everybody will win: the school will prove it cares for the students and the environment, and organizations will save frogs from dissecting.
CAROLINA FORERO
Rally for the Right to Know About GMOs in Your Food
ResponderEliminarUnless you produce your own food or buy only organic, there's no way to know if your meals contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign aims to get one million people to publicly stand against GMOs by World Food Day on October 16, 2011. This week's "Right to Know" rally focuses on one of the biggest flaws in our food system the fact that GMOs or products containing GMOs don't require any kind of additional labeling. This complete lack, leaves consumers clueless as to whether they're eating all-natural or scientifically altered foods to the detriment of the environment, the sustainable food movement, and possibly human health. To that end, consumer activists plan to storm the Capitol and cities across the U.S. with one major message: "We have a right to know what, exactly, we are eating." Activists will give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other officials the message that genetically modified (GM) foods need to be labeled as such, but that's not all: Consumers will make three other demands. From the Millions Against Monsanto press release: "We want factory farmed animals and genetically modified animal products labeled. The demands are certainly comprehensive, and given the national uproar over the recent deregulation of GM alfalfa and sugar beets, there's no better time for this rally. In a recent MSNBC poll, 96 percent of respondents said that they wanted GMO foods to come with labels identifying them as genetically modified. Ninety-six percent! GM giants like Monsanto have assaulted our food system for too long, and it's encouraging to see such a huge number of consumers starting to really fight back. If you can't attend the rally but still want to protest GMOs in our food supply, fear not: There's still a way you can help. Tell these companies that you want them to ditch GMOs by signing the Institute for Responsible Technology's petition.
Maria Luisa Camargo Frnaco
Rally for the Right to Know About GMOs in Your Food
ResponderEliminarUnless you produce your own food or buy only organic, there's no way to know if your meals contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign aims to get one million people to publicly stand against GMOs by World Food Day on October 16, 2011. This week's "Right to Know" rally focuses on one of the biggest flaws in our food system the fact that GMOs or products containing GMOs don't require any kind of additional labeling. This complete lack, leaves consumers clueless as to whether they're eating all-natural or scientifically altered foods to the detriment of the environment, the sustainable food movement, and possibly human health. To that end, consumer activists plan to storm the Capitol and cities across the U.S. with one major message: "We have a right to know what, exactly, we are eating." Activists will give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other officials the message that genetically modified (GM) foods need to be labeled as such, but that's not all: Consumers will make three other demands. From the Millions Against Monsanto press release: "We want factory farmed animals and genetically modified animal products labeled. The demands are certainly comprehensive, and given the national uproar over the recent deregulation of GM alfalfa and sugar beets, there's no better time for this rally. In a recent MSNBC poll, 96 percent of respondents said that they wanted GMO foods to come with labels identifying them as genetically modified. Ninety-six percent! GM giants like Monsanto have assaulted our food system for too long, and it's encouraging to see such a huge number of consumers starting to really fight back. If you can't attend the rally but still want to protest GMOs in our food supply, fear not: There's still a way you can help. Tell these companies that you want them to ditch GMOs by signing the Institute for Responsible Technology's petition.
Maria Luisa Camargo Franco
Rally for the Right to Know About GMOs in Your Food
ResponderEliminarUnless you produce your own food or buy only organic, there's no way to know if your meals contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign aims to get one million people to publicly stand against GMOs by World Food Day on October 16, 2011. This week's "Right to Know" rally focuses on one of the biggest flaws in our food system the fact that GMOs or products containing GMOs don't require any kind of additional labeling. This complete lack, leaves consumers clueless as to whether they're eating all-natural or scientifically altered foods to the detriment of the environment, the sustainable food movement, and possibly human health. To that end, consumer activists plan to storm the Capitol and cities across the U.S. with one major message: "We have a right to know what, exactly, we are eating." Activists will give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other officials the message that genetically modified (GM) foods need to be labeled as such, but that's not all: Consumers will make three other demands. From the Millions Against Monsanto press release: "We want factory farmed animals and genetically modified animal products labeled. The demands are certainly comprehensive, and given the national uproar over the recent deregulation of GM alfalfa and sugar beets, there's no better time for this rally. In a recent MSNBC poll, 96 percent of respondents said that they wanted GMO foods to come with labels identifying them as genetically modified. Ninety-six percent! GM giants like Monsanto have assaulted our food system for too long, and it's encouraging to see such a huge number of consumers starting to really fight back. If you can't attend the rally but still want to protest GMOs in our food supply, fear not: There's still a way you can help. Tell these companies that you want them to ditch GMOs by signing the Institute for Responsible Technology's petition.
Maria Luisa Camargo Franco.
Rally for the Right to Know About GMOs in Your Food
ResponderEliminarUnless you produce your own food or buy only organic, there's no way to know if your meals contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign aims to get one million people to publicly stand against GMOs by World Food Day on October 16, 2011. This week's "Right to Know" rally focuses on one of the biggest flaws in our food system the fact that GMOs or products containing GMOs don't require any kind of additional labeling. This complete lack, leaves consumers clueless as to whether they're eating all-natural or scientifically altered foods to the detriment of the environment, the sustainable food movement, and possibly human health. To that end, consumer activists plan to storm the Capitol and cities across the U.S. with one major message: "We have a right to know what, exactly, we are eating." Activists will give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other officials the message that genetically modified (GM) foods need to be labeled as such, but that's not all: Consumers will make three other demands. From the Millions Against Monsanto press release: "We want factory farmed animals and genetically modified animal products labeled. The demands are certainly comprehensive, and given the national uproar over the recent deregulation of GM alfalfa and sugar beets, there's no better time for this rally. In a recent MSNBC poll, 96 percent of respondents said that they wanted GMO foods to come with labels identifying them as genetically modified. Ninety-six percent! GM giants like Monsanto have assaulted our food system for too long, and it's encouraging to see such a huge number of consumers starting to really fight back. If you can't attend the rally but still want to protest GMOs in our food supply, fear not: There's still a way you can help. Tell these companies that you want them to ditch GMOs by signing the Institute for Responsible Technology's petition.
Maria Luisa Camargo Franco.
Rally for the Right to Know About GMOs in Your Food
ResponderEliminarUnless you produce your own food or buy only organic, there's no way to know if your meals contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign aims to get one million people to publicly stand against GMOs by World Food Day on October 16, 2011. This week's "Right to Know" rally focuses on one of the biggest flaws in our food system the fact that GMOs or products containing GMOs don't require any kind of additional labeling. This complete lack, leaves consumers clueless as to whether they're eating all-natural or scientifically altered foods to the detriment of the environment, the sustainable food movement, and possibly human health. To that end, consumer activists plan to storm the Capitol and cities across the U.S. with one major message: "We have a right to know what, exactly, we are eating." Activists will give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other officials the message that genetically modified (GM) foods need to be labeled as such, but that's not all: Consumers will make three other demands. From the Millions Against Monsanto press release: "We want factory farmed animals and genetically modified animal products labeled. The demands are certainly comprehensive, and given the national uproar over the recent deregulation of GM alfalfa and sugar beets, there's no better time for this rally. In a recent MSNBC poll, 96 percent of respondents said that they wanted GMO foods to come with labels identifying them as genetically modified. Ninety-six percent! GM giants like Monsanto have assaulted our food system for too long, and it's encouraging to see such a huge number of consumers starting to really fight back. If you can't attend the rally but still want to protest GMOs in our food supply, fear not: There's still a way you can help. Tell these companies that you want them to ditch GMOs by signing the Institute for Responsible Technology's petition.
Maria Luisa Camargo Franco.
Rally for the Right to Know About GMOs in Your Food
ResponderEliminarUnless you produce your own food or buy only organic, there's no way to know if your meals contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign aims to get one million people to publicly stand against GMOs by World Food Day on October 16, 2011. This week's "Right to Know" rally focuses on one of the biggest flaws in our food system the fact that GMOs or products containing GMOs don't require any kind of additional labeling. This complete lack, leaves consumers clueless as to whether they're eating all-natural or scientifically altered foods to the detriment of the environment, the sustainable food movement, and possibly human health. To that end, consumer activists plan to storm the Capitol and cities across the U.S. with one major message: "We have a right to know what, exactly, we are eating." Activists will give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other officials the message that genetically modified (GM) foods need to be labeled as such, but that's not all: Consumers will make three other demands. From the Millions Against Monsanto press release: "We want factory farmed animals and genetically modified animal products labeled. The demands are certainly comprehensive, and given the national uproar over the recent deregulation of GM alfalfa and sugar beets, there's no better time for this rally. In a recent MSNBC poll, 96 percent of respondents said that they wanted GMO foods to come with labels identifying them as genetically modified. Ninety-six percent! GM giants like Monsanto have assaulted our food system for too long, and it's encouraging to see such a huge number of consumers starting to really fight back. If you can't attend the rally but still want to protest GMOs in our food supply, fear not: There's still a way you can help. Tell these companies that you want them to ditch GMOs by signing the Institute for Responsible Technology's petition.
Maria Luisa Camargo Franco.
Rally for the Right to Know About GMOs in Your Food
ResponderEliminarUnless you produce your own food or buy only organic, there's no way to know if your meals contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Organic Consumers Association's Millions Against Monsanto campaign aims to get one million people to publicly stand against GMOs by World Food Day on October 16, 2011. This week's "Right to Know" rally focuses on one of the biggest flaws in our food system the fact that GMOs or products containing GMOs don't require any kind of additional labeling. This complete lack, leaves consumers clueless as to whether they're eating all-natural or scientifically altered foods to the detriment of the environment, the sustainable food movement, and possibly human health. To that end, consumer activists plan to storm the Capitol and cities across the U.S. with one major message: "We have a right to know what, exactly, we are eating." Activists will give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other officials the message that genetically modified (GM) foods need to be labeled as such, but that's not all: Consumers will make three other demands. From the Millions Against Monsanto press release: "We want factory farmed animals and genetically modified animal products labeled. The demands are certainly comprehensive, and given the national uproar over the recent deregulation of GM alfalfa and sugar beets, there's no better time for this rally. In a recent MSNBC poll, 96 percent of respondents said that they wanted GMO foods to come with labels identifying them as genetically modified. Ninety-six percent! GM giants like Monsanto have assaulted our food system for too long, and it's encouraging to see such a huge number of consumers starting to really fight back. If you can't attend the rally but still want to protest GMOs in our food supply, fear not: There's still a way you can help. Tell these companies that you want them to ditch GMOs by signing the Institute for Responsible Technology's petition.
Maria luisa Camaargo Franco.
Andres Usma
ResponderEliminarActivists continue to fight for the lives of HIV+ residents. Poverty and HIV/AIDS can be a deadly combination. For a person living with HIV to be at risk of becoming homeless is unacceptable. New York will see a surge in financial costs to assist these individuals, not to mention a potential public health nightmare.
Taken by Bill Re-Introduced to Provide Housing Assistance for HIV+ New Yorkers by Rich Lombino & Elizabeth Lombino
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ResponderEliminarIn a matter of days e mails have been sent expressing outrage to a recent New York times article. Arthur Brisbane, the editor posted an assessment. The assessment said that the article concerns about the ruined lives perpetrators without acknowledging concern for the victim. While the story appeared to be focusing in the community´s reaction to the crime the community is concerned te people involved. Brisbane post was not an apology and does not explain that balance doesn’t means giving equal weight for different concerns.
In a matter of days e mails have been sent expressing outrage to a recent New York times article. Arthur Brisbane, the editor posted an assessment. The assessment said that the article concerns about the ruined lives perpetrators without acknowledging concern for the victim. While the story appeared to be focusing in the community´s reaction to the crime the community is concerned te people involved. Brisbane post was not an apology and does not explain that balance doesn’t means giving equal weight for different concerns.
ResponderEliminarIn a matter of days e mails have been sent expressing outrage to a recent New York times article. Arthur Brisbane, the editor posted an assessment. The assessment said that the article concerns about the ruined lives perpetrators without acknowledging concern for the victim. While the story appeared to be focusing in the community´s reaction to the crime the community is concerned te people involved. Brisbane post was not an apology and does not explain that balance doesn’t means giving equal weight for different concerns.
ResponderEliminarCenter for Food Safety and Earthjustice demand United States agculturebecause they didn't reduce the organic alfalfa.
ResponderEliminarThey used less alfalfa and reduce it after the demand. It not the first time that United States agriculture were in a demand the Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice do it.
The alfalfa is very hard case because it affect other industries.As feed for their cattle.
The organic afalfa was going to be more difficult to be found so this don't help merchants.This material became more expensives and agricultors were in very hard contitions and meet and milk, cheese and other industries were in drougth to said like that.
You can still take action. Join us in letting President Obama know that consumers need a thriving organic industry, and we are counting on him to protect it. We can help please collaborate in the law or rule thanks.
Organizations Call for Humane Dissection After Teacher Taunts Student With Dead Frogs
ResponderEliminarA teacher in Florida was accused at practicing bullying against a student who didnot wanted to do the dissection of frogs. The teacher was temporary reassigned to other school in Florida. Human dissection advocates hope educators will prove they want a safe and compassionate classroom environment by switching to virtual dissection applications. A lot of students are asking for the virtual dissection, because this way they can make the dissection slow step by step at their time, and also save the environment.
It is estimated that by 2014, every school will have the option to practice virtual dissection. If the school buys the software, everybody will win: the school will prove it cares for the students and the environment, and organizations will save frogs from dissecting.
Juan Pablo Grande
Organizations Call for Humane Dissection After Teacher Taunts Student With Dead Frogs
ResponderEliminarA teacher in Florida was accused at bullying and taunting a student for her refusal to dissect a frog. The teacher was temporary reassigned to other school in Florida. Human dissection advocates hope educators will prove
they want a safe and compassionate classroom environment by switching to virtual dissection applications. Studdents are asking for this because they could make it easier step by step at their own time, and the numer of killled frogs will reduce. Saving the frog population.
Something good will come from this incident. If the school buys the software, everybody will win: the school will prove it cares for the students and the environment, and organizations will save frogs from dissecting.
Juan Pablo Grande
Organizations Call for Humane Dissection After Teacher Taunts Student With Dead Frogs
ResponderEliminarA teacher in Florida was accused at bullying and taunting a student for her refusal to dissect a frog. The teacher was temporary reassigned to other school in Florida. Human dissection advocates hope educators will prove
they want a safe and compassionate classroom environment by switching to virtual dissection applications. Studdents are asking for this because they could make it easier step by step at their own time, and the numer of killled frogs will reduce. Saving the frog population.
Something good will come from this incident. If the school buys the software, everybody will win: the school will prove it cares for the students and the environment, and organizations will save frogs from dissecting.
Juan Pablo Grande
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ResponderEliminarSoldier Gets 24 Years for Killing 3 Afghan Civilians
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
An Army soldier facing a court-martial here on Wednesday admitted to killing three Afghan civilians as part of a conspiracy to kill for sport.
Specialist Morlock, one of five soldiers accused of killing the Afghans near Kandahar last year, had previously agreed in court documents to testify against the other defendants in exchange for his plea. Specialist Morlock, 22, of Wasilla, Alaska, is the first of the five soldiers to face a court-martial. He pleaded guilty on Wednesday to three charges of premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit murder, assault and other charges.
Specialist Morlock gave several interviews to investigators, including some on videotape that have been broadcast nationally, in which he described how members of his unit, part of Stryker brigade deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010, faked combat situationsIn the interviews and in his plea offer, the soldier claimed that a superior, Staff Sgt. Calvin R. Gibbs, was the ringleader in the killings. Specialist Morlock and Sergeant Gibbs are the only soldiers accused in all three killings.
Coach Fabio Capello of England returned the captaincy to Jhon Terry after he tooked away last year because of personal problems that the soccer player had with his wife. The England captain said too that he is more older and wise and that he would keep the captaincy. Jhon Terry told too that he was surprise to get the armband back and that he was disappointed at the time but for him the most important thing was to get focus in the football playing.
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ResponderEliminarResearch in Motion has surprised Apple by announcing its new BlackBerry PlayBook. It is unexpected the success or failure of the BlackBerry tablet. This will be the first tablet competing directly with the Apple´s Corporation. As in Sun Life Financial, the tablet has produced a corporative interest. There have been some discusses about the two technologic invents, such as their appearance and software. Trying to adapt to the costumer´s benefits, it will be sold in different types of mechanism and in different space of gigabytes. And, even though many costumers have preferred to buy the IPad, the demands haven´t stopped. The expectations with the BlackBerry tablet are unexpected, but there are inferences that the consumers will prefer this, because of the use they had already experimented with the BlackBerry Smartphone.
ResponderEliminarMARIA JOSE JAMETTE
Armed Students? Texas May Allow Concealed Guns On College Campuses
ResponderEliminarLast year's shooting at the University of Texas at Austin, where a 19-year-old opened fire on students before killing himself, has gotten students riled up. Weinberg started a petition at Change.org against the new law which has been approved by the Texas House, allowing concealed carry on campus. "If I was in a class, and saw a gun in someone's bag, that would make me incredibly nervous," says Weinberg. Weinberg admits he's been shocked by shootings on campus like the one on his campus just last year or the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. But he says more weapons on campus aren't the answer. Weinberg has looked to chief of the campus police Robert E. Dahlstrom and the city police Art Acevedo for guidance on the matter. And while Weinberg acknowledges that there's a potential that a concealed weapon could be used to help in situations where a shooter opens fire on campus, he's concerned about the everyday situations college students encounter - drinking, parties, sexual assault and adolescent conflict - that could be made way more dangerous with concealed weapons. They cite a Department of Justice study that found that 93% of violent crimes that victimize college students occur off campus.
Last year at the University of Texas at Austin, a 19-year-old FIGHTED WITH students before killing himself, GOT PEOPLE riled up. "If I was in a class, and saw a gun in someone's bag, that would make me REALLY nervous," says Weinberg. Weinberg KNOWS he's been shocked by shootings on campus. But he says more weapons on campus ARE NOT the answer. Weinberg has looked to chief of the campus police and the city police for ORIENTATION on THAT STUFF. And while Weinberg KNOW that there's a POSIBILITY that a HIDE weapon could be used to help in situations where a shooter STARTS fire on campus, he's WORRIED about the everyday situations college students LIVE - drinking, parties, sexual assault and adolescent conflict - that could be made SOLUTIONS more dangerous with concealed weapons. They SAID a Department of Justice study that found that 93% of violent crimes that victimize college students occur ON CAMPUSES.
Even the nuclear industry acknowledges that all nuclear power plants pose a risk to surrounding populations. No plant can be called 100 percent safe. Take a look at Indian Point in Buchanan, New York—the site of two 40-year-old nuclear reactors. Here is just one staggering fact: Twenty million people, or 6 percent of the U.S. population, reside within 50 miles of the facility—a facility that federal regulators acknowledge has an "unworkable" area evacuation plan in the event of a fast-acting disaster. Recent weeks, the events at Fukushima have renewed longstanding calls to close the facility.
ResponderEliminarNATALIA FRANCO
Julio Torres
ResponderEliminarIn the past year traffic accidents have reduced, people killed in these accidents are less than in the past years.
Driving is getting much, more safe: althougt it may not seem that way, there have been lees deaths in the last 60 years.
An estimated 32,788 people were killed in traffic accidents in 2010, which represents a 25 percent decline since 2005, when there were 43,510 traffic fatalities, and the fewest deaths since 1949.
“Last year’s drop in traffic fatalities is welcome news, and it proves that we can make a difference, we will continue doing everything possible to make cars safer.
Old cars are being replaced by newer models with more safety features, including air bags and antilock brakes. Highways are built or refurbished with more attention to safety; Seat belt use is believed to be up.
Whatever the explanation, the decline in deaths was not merely caused by the drop in driving.
In 2005, there were 1.46 deaths for every 100 million miles traveled, and last year the rate dropped to 1.09. (In 1949, by comparing, the rate was 7.13.) Every other part of the country saw a decline.
In the past year traffic accidents have SHORTENED, people ANNIHILATED in these accidents are less than in the past years.
Driving is getting much, more safe: althougt it may not APPEAR that way, there have been lees deaths in the last 60 years.
A GUSSED 32,788 people were ERADICATED in traffic accidents in 2010, which SIMBOLISES a 25 percent decline since 2005, when there were 43,510 traffic fatalities, and the fewest deaths since 1949.
“Last year’s drop in traffic fatalities is welcome news, and it AFFIRMS that we can CREATE a difference, we will ADVANCE doing everything possible to make cars safer.
Old cars are being CHANGED by newer models with more safety features, ADDING air bags and antilock brakes. Highways are CREATED or CLEANED UP with more attention to safety; Seat belt use is CONSIDERED to be up.
Whatever the explanation, the decline in deaths was not merely caused by the drop in driving.
In 2005, there were 1.46 deaths for every 100 million miles traveled, and last year the rate dropped to 1.09. (In 1949, by comparing, the rate was 7.13.) Every other part of the country saw a decline.
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Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste?
Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon.
Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again.
Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter.
The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important
Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition.
SUMMARY
ResponderEliminarB: MELISSA CURE
Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste?
Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon.
Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again.
Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter.
The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important
Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition.
SUMMARY
ResponderEliminarB: MELISSA CURE
Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste?
Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon.
Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again.
Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter.
The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important
Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition
SUMMARY
ResponderEliminarB: MELISSA CURE
Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste?
Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon.
Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again.
Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter.
The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important
Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition
SUMMARY
ResponderEliminarB: MELISSA CURE
Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste?
Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon.
Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again.
Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter.
The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important
Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition
SUMMARY
ResponderEliminarB: MELISSA CURE
Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste?
Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon.
Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again.
Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter.
The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important
Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition
SUMMARY
ResponderEliminarB: MELISSA CURE
Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste?
Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon.
Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again.
Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter.
The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important
Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition.
SUMMARY
ResponderEliminarB: MELISSA CURE
Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste?
Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon.
Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again.
Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter.
The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important
Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition.
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ResponderEliminarSUMMARY
ResponderEliminarB: MELISSA CURE
Calling the Oregon Senate: Will You End Phone Book Waste?
Jess Lesber, Change.org editor and reporter, has 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, she met Albert Kaufman, of Portland, Oregon, who is the driving force behind similar proposed statewide legislation now being taking into account in Oregon.
Two years ago, Kaufman asked his state legislator to present a bill to move Oregon to an opt-in system, which would forbid companies from leaving phone books on doorsteps without permission. The bill only made it to a hearing in the House committee, but Kaufman didn't give up and last year he presented the legislation again to his State Senator Chip Shields. Now the legislation Senate Bill waits for a hearing in committee again.
Kaufman is pushing the Oregon State Senate to give the bill a hearing and move it out of the committee. He is hoping that the change.org petition letters in support of the bill will help convince members of the committee of the importance of this issue. He reported that signers of the petition have heard back from their elected officials about the letter.
The phone book industry is putting plenty of lobbying resources into pausing San Francisco's legislation, because it will be the first in the nation and would cut into their billions of dollars of unproductive advertising incomes. But if enough cities and states are gravely considering related measures, the industry will have a harder time blocking every individual effort. That's another reason why these local and statewide campaigns are so important
Support ending the old-school waste of the phone book in Oregon and sign the petition.
Diana Rueda
ResponderEliminarPresident Obama visited El Salvador to discuss the drug trade, immigration, and security issues in the region with Salvadoran president Mauricio Funs. The murders of Salvadoran anti-mining activists, however, were not on the agenda. Pacific Rim conducted its first gold explorations in Cabañas. Residents that had previously noticed the effects of mines and dead animals were skeptical of a new, massive gold project. Local Salvadoran organizations responded by researching the environmental, social and economic impacts of mining.
DIANA RUEDA
ResponderEliminarThe world continues to mourn the loss of Berlin Zoo’s polar bear. Many fans are protesting to stuff the world's most famous polar bear for museum display.Unfortunately, this is not unusual for polar bears. Fur Harvesters Auction Inc, one of Canada's largest fur auction houses, says it cannot meet the demand for polar bear hides, which are used for displays in museums and airports or are made into bear skin rugs.