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DawnWatch: PETA's Fish Empathy Project is first article in US News & World Report 1/10/04 For years, scientists made and shared the assumption that because their nervous systems are different from those of mammals, fish do not experience pain as we do. Therefore, not only did many otherwise vegetarian people continue to eat fish, otherwise compassionate people have fished, not just for food, but for sport, with "catch and release" fishing being a popular way to maintain lake populations. In some areas, the same fish might get caught between five or ten times. Recent stud...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 5:38pm PST
DawnWatch: New York Times on Alaska Zoos elephant treadmill plans The Sunday, January 9. New York Times has a story about the Alaska Zoo's elephant, named Maggie. She is a lone elephant - unconscionable for such social animals, and suffers from Artic climate, so different from an elephant's natural environment. But rather than sending her to sanctuary in a warm climate, the zoo's answer to her health problems, exasperated by her small enclosure and lack of exercise, is to build her a treadmill...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 5:34pm PST
Let's depose the one-eyed king: It's time we reclaim labor's vision The SEIU and its New Unity Partnership allies have created a firestorm of controversy over their proposals for restructuring the labor movement. But these "reformers" have mistaken symptoms for causes, and their prescriptions will do nothing more than intensify business unionism's strangle-hold on organized labor. The alternative? Let's start talking about the organizing model that characterized labor's most successful period, and let's recognize that the foundation for an organizin...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 1:07pm PST
Following complaint of IWW* Labor Board Charges Starbucks with Multiple ULPs ...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 12:59pm PST
4-1 to CANCEL THE BUFFALO HUNT We just now got word from Helena that Montana's Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission voted 4-1 to CANCEL THE BUFFALO HUNT for this year! BFC applauds Governor Brian Schweitzer for his leadership on behalf of the Yellowstone buffalo....
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 12:53pm PST
Sir Paul McCartney writes forward to a new book by Ingrid Newkirk of PETA Sir Paul McCartney has written the forward to a new book by Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: “Making Kind Choices,” which comes out this week....
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 12:22pm PST
Black sheriff jolts county near Atlanta He defends the ouster of 27 in department, claiming he has the right to clean house. One white department employee went so far as to compare it to "Jews being taken to the showers."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 12:15pm PST
Link Between Antibiotic Overuse in FoodAnimals and Antibiotic-Resistant Urinary Tract Infe A new report from scientists at the University of California at Berkeley concludes that an outbreak of antibiotic-resistant urinary tract infections (UTIs) was probably caused by foodborne bacteria, and that resistance in such bacteria likely arises from use of antibiotics in agricultural animals....
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 9:56am PST
Senator Boxer on Her Objection Ohio Certification I thought you would be interested in the following statement....
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 9:29am PST
Reversal of divorce provokes outrage Judge changed ruling after learning that woman is pregnant, despite the fact that her husband is in jail for abusing her...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 9:26am PST
THIS WEEK in the WAR ON TERROR You hear a lot of things when you work in a hotel lobby. One guest, commenting to her companions on the tsunami disaster in Indonesia, declared, without shame, that "the place is an al-Qaeda breeding ground, you know."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 8:34am PST
Washing Away the Lies about Disaster Relief As the fervor dies down and the media stops their fanatical coverage of this event, moving on as they inevitably do to the next celebrity basketball match or the next Pentagon press release, what will happen to the tsunami victims?...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 8:19am PST
Epilogue (Backstabbed: The History of a Photograph) Recent developments concerning the original article....
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 7:58am PST
January 2005 U.S. Immigrant Alert! Newsletter National Immigrant Solidarity Network
URL: http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 4:49am PST
Response To Eliot Grossman Re Mumia Mumia's ex-attorney gets pummeled...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 7:05pm PST
Elvis Presley's comb Elvis Presleys comb hidden away for over 45 years in old ladys house in uk is up for Auction on e bay...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 12:55pm PST
HEALTH: Intimidation, Politics and Drug Industry Cripple U.S. Medicine The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to safeguard the nation's medical products, but they're "taking care of business rather than patient safety",says FDA's associate safety director Dr. David J. Graham. In interviews, he and others highlight the all too brutal facts....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 10:10am PST
Bob's Troubled Dream A lie repeated becomes evidence to send of innocent AIM leaders like Leonard Peltier and innocent bystanders like Arlo Looking Cloud. How does this happen? Sometimes, in a dream. Bob needs a little reinforcement, so he calls upon his good friend, Judge Lisa Cook, to adjudicate his dream once and for all....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 9:16am PST
The Donkey that Refused to Kick Had Kerry called for a new election, his huge base would have followed him..The democratic nominee for president of the United States never seems capable of this righteous chutzpah. It's too bad there's not a donkey around who can kick anymore...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 8:29am PST
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