Expanded Web Site for Concerned Consumers ‘Connects the Dots’ Between America’s Biggest Companies, Their Abuses and How to Create Real Corporate Responsibility.
WASHINGTON – Worried that your consumer dollars are rewarding bad corporations with problem practices? Concerned about greenwashing? Wish there was an easy way to get the dirt on America’s biggest companies before you buy [...]

WASHINGTON – Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor this morning to support H. Res. 1370, legislation calling on the Chinese government to immediately cease human rights abuses ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. The resolution passed by an overwhelming vote of 419 to 1. Below are her remarks:
“I rise today in strong [...]

The second Hope Ball was a huge success once again with the Yorkshire based Hope Trust committee raising more than £120,000 in aid of ovarian cancer research and treatment in one night alone. Together with last year’s fundraising the total raised by The Hope Trust in two years is £290,000.
Nearly 500 guests attended the [...]

ORANGE, Calif., – One thousand hospital workers marched through the streets of Santa Ana and Orange on Saturday to ask the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange to allow them to vote to form a union without harassment and intimidation by supervisors.
Elected leaders spoke in support of the workers at a rally in front of [...]

DALLAS, TX – The Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc. today announced new partnerships with New York City and the States of Connecticut and South Carolina. These governments joined the Aidmatrix Network® – a national disaster relief coordination system funded by FEMA, UPS, Accenture, and Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc. to better manage unsolicited donations and volunteers. It connects State [...]

LONDON – The newly released Maplecroft Climate Change Risk Report includes the first-ever climate change vulnerability index and a set of best-to-worst rankings for more than 168 countries worldwide. It identifies the world’s highest carbon dioxide (CO2) emitters as well as those countries most and least vulnerable to climate change. The report finds many of [...]

NEW YORK – As the oldest legal advocacy organization dedicated to advancing and defending the rights of women and girls, Legal Momentum stands with our allies who work every day with trafficking victims to support the Senate version of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act co-sponsored by Senators Joe Biden and Sam Brownback.
“The [...]

SAN FRANCISCO – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organization, today announced that it will hold its annual Bay Area Gala Dinner on Saturday, July 26, 2008, at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. With the theme of “Race for Equality,” guests have the [...]

LOS ANGELES – Members of the United Steelworkers (USW), labor and community activists demonstrated in front of Occidental Petroleum headquarters today in support of a people’s tribunal in Bogota, Colombia that is hearing evidence of murders and death threats against union activists involving the company’s alleged approval.
“Corporations that operate in areas of conflict should not [...]

WASHINGTON – Henrietta H. Fore, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), welcomed President George W. Bush to USAID’s headquarters today. In his address to leading democracy and governance stakeholders, the President discussed progress on the Freedom Agenda to end tyranny and he honored activists in “captive nations” for their work fighting for [...]

NEW YORK – For the second consecutive year, Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi is proud to join forces with America’s Second Harvest – The Nation’s Food Bank Network, during the holiday season to help raise funds for and awareness of hunger in America through the Give Hope Campaign. The campaign will run from October 1 to [...]

International Information Agency, Inc. (IIA) today announced that they will immediately begin offering American Media/Marketing Companies the opportunity to acquire the exclusive rights to outdoor advertisement space in the fastest growing Asian market. This unique opportunity allows American media buyers the exclusive right to advertise on over 6,000 taxis in the Beijing market, host [...]

VIENNA, Va., – On July 14, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Americans for the Arts, and The Aspen Institute gathered experts from around the county in the disciplines of the arts, environmental advocacy, engineering, media, and business, to participate in Wolf Trap’s National Summit on the Arts and Environment held at Booz Allen [...]

WASHINGTON – A chart prepared by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) (www.aidshealth.org), which provides AIDS care and treatment services to more than 79,000 individuals in 20 countries worldwide, shows how the Senate version of legislation to re-authorize PEPFAR (the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), the successful US global AIDS program, will be able to save [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Weather Underground, the nation’s first online provider of weather related content, today announced the availability of a new hurricane-tracking product on its web site www.wunderground.com.
WunderMap(TM) displays the current position, strength and movement of every tropical storm across the world that threatens to become a hurricane, typhoon or cyclone. Users can currently [...]