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"Show your support of trade agreements that assure job security and decent livelihoods, and take a stand against the NAFTA model that displaces millions from their homes and jobs and furthers environmental destruction," urges a group advocating fairer globalization.
more...From: Global Exchange
Related topics/regions: [United States] [South Korea] [Peru] [Panama] [Colombia] [Agriculture] [International cooperation] [Labour] [Trade] [Environmental activism] [Geopolitics]
Image: © American Friends Service Committee
Anti-pesticide activists are asking for support in their efforts to secure a U.S. Food and Drug Administration ban on lindane, a toxic, bioaccumulative pesticide still allowed in shampoos and lotions used on children.
more...From: Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Agriculture] [Children] [Health] [Activism]
Concerned Americans are adding their voices to a new campaign urging presidential candidates to not only address climate change, but to provide specifics -- including how they plan to help developing nations cope with human-caused climate change.
more...From: Friends of the Earth International, Oxfam America, Jubilee USA Network, ActionAid International USA
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Climate change] [Politics] [Activism]
Image: Climate change is going to affect the price and availability of food for many people worldwide. © Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
As 2008 marks the 60-year anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a group of seasoned humanitarian activists known as The Elders are hoping to collect one billion signatures from across the world, expanding the past precedent that only governments should sign the Universal Declaration.
From: The Elders
more...From: The Elders
Related topics/regions: [Human rights] [Activism]
Image: The Elders.
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From: Oxfam America
Related topics/regions: [Food] [Poverty]
Help OneWorld partners in the U.S. provide short-term emergency assistance, such as water, food, blankets and personal hygiene kits, and long-term aid to help with reconstruction efforts.
more...Related topics/regions: [Thailand] [Sri Lanka] [Malaysia] [Indonesia] [India] [Bangladesh] [Aid] [Emergency relief] [International cooperation]
Turn the Tide is a campaign to educate and mobilize concerned citizens to take action to encourage elected officials to establish policies that will reduce and eliminate the nuclear threat.
more...From: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Related topics/regions: [Nuclear Issues]
Image: © Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
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From: Polaris Project


