The Center wants to take a quarter of a million signatures to DC to ask our elected representatives to protect women's health, equality, dignity, and freedom to make decisions for themselves. Make your voice heard. Sign the Bill of Reproductive Rights.
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]]> The Boy Scouts of America voted on Thursday to lift a ban on openly gay scouts that had been in place throughout the organization's 103-year history, capping weeks of intense lobbying on both sides, the group said in a statement.
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]]> The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership will vote Thursday whether to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of the nation's oldest youth organizations and its millions of members.
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]]> In 24 hours, President Obama could finally move to close Guantanamo -- the most notorious prison camp on earth.
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]]> 32-year-old Mark Carson was walking down a street in New York City on Friday evening when a man came up to him and his friends, yelled "f---ot" and "queer," and shot him in the head.

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]]> A planned demonstration at Gap Inc's shareholder meeting in San Francisco aims to get Gap to sign on to fire and building safety regulations in Bangladesh
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]]> Last week, the media watchdog Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting documented a lack of skepticism in New York Times reporting of allegations of Syrian government use of chemical weapons. U.S. government was not nearly as certain as claimed by the Times ...
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]]> As Tuesday dawned, the official death toll from the monster tornado that roared through Moore, Okla., on Monday stood at 51.
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]]> Your ONE chance to buy democracy back, help make the Tribune community owned! See the details at site and in comments.
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]]> Join Pathfinder International in calling on world leaders to increase efforts to advance the sexual and reproductive rights and health of women and girls in developing countries.
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]]> Urge them to support legislation that requires common sense gun safety requirements.
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]]> This is so very sad.... The 8-years-old girl whose story you’ll read in coming lines did not make it to the 2nd night of her wedding nor did she make it to her 9th or 10th birthday.
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]]> “On this historic day of May 16, 2013, ten sovereign Indigenous nations maintain that the proposed TransCanada/Keystone XL pipeline does not serve the national interest and in fact would be detrimental not only to the collected sovereigns but all future
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]]> The “Nuns on the Bus” are revving up their engines for another national campaign, only this time the Catholic sisters are taking their mobile platform for social justice along the country’s Southern border to push Congress to pass immigration reform.
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]]> Tell President Obama to provide health care to the men and women who are battling America's wildfires.

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]]> The dairy industry wants to put aspartame and other artificial sweeteners in your milk. They're asking the FDA to change the definition of milk and 17 other dairy products not to have to label their artificially-sweetened products as "reduced calorie."
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]]> Now, in response to the bombings, cities everywhere are beefing up surveillance. But isn't it far more likely that this technology will be used to curtail law-abiding citizens' constitutional rights instead of deter terrorism?
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]]> Please join me in this fight by adding your name to this petition and asking Abercrombie and Fitch to embrace the beauty in all sizes by offering XL and XXL sizes for women and men!




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]]> There are way too many Republicans in office with appallingly anti-woman, anti-family records. Now more than ever, it is critical we gear up to fight back against the radical, anti-choice GOP. That's why we're asking you to stand behind us and take an
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]]> Gov. Mark Dayton on Tuesday signed a bill making gay marriage legal in Minnesota, the 12th state to take the step, as thousands of onlookers cheered.
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]]> 13 world auction records were attained and 9 works of art were sold for over one million dollars in one of the highest-grossing charity auctions ever.
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]]> Write to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) asking it addresses the foundational causes of the Sahel's issues rather than simply responding to the immediate emergency there.
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]]> A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project... We demand that the government make rules and laws that will stop this happening
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]]> Congress is debating comprehensive immigration reform right now, and an amendment to the legislation could fix this problem. But it won't happen unless more of us put pressure on our lawmakers. Urge your senator to vote to include protections for
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]]> More than 16,000 children die every day from hunger-related causes. Yet, few of these deaths are due to outright starvation. Instead, children who are "only" mildly or moderately undernourished suffer from immune systems that are unable to fight common
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]]> Across the globe, there is a critical shortage of at least 3.5 million doctors, nurses, midwives and community health workers. This means more than 40 million of the world's youngest children don't have access to a doctor, or even basic health care
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]]> While the United States Supreme Court weighs potential rulings for the Proposition 8 and Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) marriage equality cases, several states recently extended marriage equality to their gay and lesbian citizens.
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]]> A judge has ruled that a nun and two other protesters must remain in jail until they are sentenced in September for breaking into a nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee.
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]]> If you have doubts as to whether simply signing a petition has any merit or result, take a glance at the victory page on Change.org...
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]]> Jim DeMint, the President of the Heritage Foundation, must resign immediately and take responsibility for producing a report authored by a white supremacist that perpetuates ugly and false stereotypes about immigrants and their families.
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]]> Urge Uganda to shift its focus from anti-homosexuality to more pressing issues like hunger.
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]]> The goal of Wonderful Opportunities for Occupants and Fidos, or WOOF, is two-fold: to get panhandlers off the streets and to provide unadoptable, homeless dogs with companionship in hopes of getting them ready to be adopted.
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]]> Heart of a Mother celebrates Mother's Day, and the beauty of a mother's love, in an unforgettable way. You're going to love it, and you'll want to share it with every mother you know!

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]]> Now is the time to show your support for marriage equality. Add your name and help stand up for marriage equality today.
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]]> Florida’s tomato farms supply 50% of all U.S. fresh tomatoes but have also been called America’s ‘ground zero for slavery.’ Countless workers held against their will, threatened with violence and forced to haul hundreds of heavy tomato buckets a day
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]]> Tell Chuck Hagel, the new Secretary of Defense, "Lend your public support to the Sexual Assault Training Oversight and Prevention Act (STOP) Act -- H.R. 1593 -- the only real solution to the military's epidemic of rape and sexual assault."
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]]> Americans are going to spend more than $2 billion showering their moms with flowers on Sunday
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]]> Autism is one of the fastest-growing learning and developmental disabilities in the United States: a child is diagnosed every 20 minutes. Families and children are growing more and more desperate for support and resources as the disability does
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]]> We have the power to end preventable child deaths in a generation.

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]]> Generation after Generation we are part of Human Progress --but our Environment Regress. Are we going forwards or backwards? Why? Can we even answer this question? Here is a view worth sharing and reading. Maybe we Can change the World?
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]]> His quick action freed three women and a girl allegedly held captive.
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]]> Shedding some of the stereotypes and reinforcing the facts are a great way to honor World Autism Day. Please sign our pledge, and in the comments section, let us know something you'd like others to be aware of about autism.
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]]> No child should go to school in fear of the leaders who are supposed to help guide their futures. We must send a message to teachers that bullying students won't be tolerated by creating federal anti-bullying laws that address not only peer-to-peer
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]]> Target Corporation (Target)[1] often offers prices that seem too good to be true - how do they keep their prices so low? Turns out some of Target’s products might be so cheap because they are made with slave-picked cotton from Uzbekistan and/or
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]]> People are being forced to make *our* clothing in outrageously dangerous buildings -- sign on to make them safe, and forward this email widely.
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]]> The committed couples behind the fight to undo California's discriminatory Proposition 8 - Kristin Perry and Sandy Stier, and Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo - decided they could not sit back and allow their relationships to be declared unworthy
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]]> Inspired one Sunday night in 1986 by a 60 Minutes story of a millionaire who "adopted" a class in an inner city school, Paul Tudor Jones started a charity himself a couple years later.
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]]> One in every 45 children in the U.S. is homeless each year. The stress and trauma of homelessness is emotionally and cognitively damaging to young children. Homeless children are two times more likely to have learning disabilities and eight times more
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]]> The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has proposed removing crucial Endangered Species Act protections from wolves across the lower 48 states. Newly-confirmed Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has a big choice
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]]> Fed up with a booming coyote population, some California ranchers have taken matters into their own well-armed hands.
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