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Shoes for Kenyans: Make a Difference through KIVA!

A group of five friends at the University of Cincinnati have started an initiative to bring awareness and aid to those who lack a basic necessity that so many of us take for granted. While many of ...

Started by Benjamin Combs

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Target & Walmart Caught Selling Lead-Tainted Products for Children, Again!

It's unbelievable: Target and Walmart, two of the nation's top retailers, are still profiting from products that expose your children to lead. Our recent tests found lead-contaminated Walmart and ...

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Started by Alan Haggard

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Ask Congress To Protect Pregnant Women From Toxic Cosmetics

We'd like to think that mama's belly is a safe, non-toxic environment. Yet according to research released today, pregnant women's bodies are polluted with chemicals found in consumer products - inc...

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Started by Alan Haggard

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Prohibit Shaking and Hitting Infants

Dear Friends, The New Jersey Law Review Commission is in the process of revisiting and revising the child welfare laws of our state. In the course of this process, an addition had been...

Started by Christine Clarke

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Discrimination is Intolerable

How can global diseases be addressed if those who suffer from them are marginalized? How can we understand the magnitude of its affects on humanity if we abandon them? That is exactly what ha...

Started by Incia Zaffar

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Search for Cruelty-Free Companies and Products

Support the Life-Savers Sadly enough there are way to many compaines that use animals for testing. Not only is it products but charities as well. For a list of these companies please go to this l...

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Started by Andrea M

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Sign cluster bomb treaty

Civilized nations, except the US, have signed the international treaty to ban cluster bombs. At long last there is solid movement toward having the U.S. military renounce the use of barbaric ...

Started by james m nordlund

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Urge Congress to Tax High Fructose Corn Syrup

Modern society begs for cheap and convenient products. As an alternative to sugar, high fructose corn syrup in America is cheaper to obtain (due to the poor climate for raising sugar) and more conv...

Started by Wil Fisher

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Lift the 1,000 ft Ban on Syringe Exchange Programs Funding

The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted down an amendment that would have continued the ban on federal funding for syringe exchange programs (SEPs). However, a clause remains that federal ...

Started by Incia Zaffar

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Tell Goldman Sachs: Hands off the H1N1 vaccine.

According to NBC News, while pregnant women and children with respiratory problems are struggling to get access to scarce doses of the H1N1 vaccine, bankers at Goldman Sachs have been given a stock...

Started by Florence Gray

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