Thai house raid reveals ongoing attacks on wildlife
Thailand's developed infrastructure, in combination with substandard law enforcement, typically makes for almost effortless smuggling.
Bayer's ill-gotten factory farming profits
There are potentially lethal strains of bacteria, traced to antibiotics produced by pharmaceutical corporation Bayer, present in pork, beef, and poultry
Victory for women: Komen reinstates Planned Parenthood funding
The reversal came after a firestorm of protests over the cutoff, including charges that it was a cave-in to Republican/right-wing pressure.
Victory for equal marriage in the Evergreen State
Senators approved by a vote of 28 to 21 a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. Four Republicans joined 24 Democrats in voting yes.
Arizona next battleground in workers’ rights war
Neither the state AFL-CIO's efforts nor the special election recall loss in November of a key radical right ally stopped GOP Gov. Jan Brewer
Texans will fight voter suppression
"We are in a new era, a new situation, which none of us have ever seen before."
Pythons invading Everglades, hunting animals to extinction
"Last October, we found a 50-foot snake with an 80-pound doe inside it."
NAACP's Jealous keynotes National Lesbian and Gay Rights Task Force convention
Over 3,000 mostly young activists representing a rainbow of sexual orientation and ethnicities crowded into the Baltimore Hilton Hotel January 26-29 to learn ways to win LGBT rights.
Domestic workers and their children march for rights
One Filipina caregiver from the East Bay explained that she sleeps in the same bed as her client: "What I'd like would be a bed where I could sleep by myself," she said.
Justice Department investigating over 100 voting rights violations
Eric Holder said the Department of Justice has opened up over 100 investigations into possible voting rights violations across the country.
