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Take action FDA Morning-after Pill

Take action FDA Morning-after Pill

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Urge the FDA to improve access to the morning-after pill Target: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Commissioner Lester Crawford Sponsor: NARAL Pro-Choice America The Bush administration has broken its promise to make a decision on the morning-after pill by September 1. American women have waited more than two years for the FDA to decide whether women can purchase the morning-after pill over the counter. The Bush administration explicitly promised the U.S. Senate that the FDA would stop dragging its…

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Recognition turning point?

Recognition turning point?

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Kudos to Maureen Dowd for giving us the background on the “background” of Bush’s speech in New Orleans. It did look like he might have been speaking at Disneyland, in more ways than one. In a ruined city – still largely without power, stinking with piles of garbage and still 40 percent submerged; where people are foraging in the miasma and muck for food, corpses and the sentimental detritus of their lives; and where unbearably sad stories continue to spill…

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If this land’s still made for you and me

If this land’s still made for you and me

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From the man wrote “this machine kills fascists” on his guitar. I wonder why the kids don’t know all these lyrics? They certainly didn’t appear in my own songbook of American folk music. This Land is Your Land – Woody Guthrie This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me As I went walking a…

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Time to rethink

Time to rethink

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JohnKerry.com – Senator John Kerry’s Speech at Brown University to be delivered later today. Opening remarks and thank you’s then… This horrifying disaster has shown Americans at their best — and their government at its worst. And that’s what I’ve come to talk with you about today. The incompetence of Katrina’s response is not reserved to a hurricane. There’s an enormous gap between Americans’ daily expectations and government’s daily performance. And the gap is growing between the enduring strength of…

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Take our country back

Take our country back

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Speech, 9/10/05 > Press Room > Sierra Club Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at the Sierra Club’s National Convention and Expo on September 10, 2005 in San Francisco. Kennedy received the Sierra Club’s William O. Douglas Award on behalf of the Waterkeeper Alliance. It’s a stealth attack. The White House has used all kinds of ingenious machinations to try to conceal its radical agenda from the American people, including Orwellian rhetoric. When they want to destroy the…

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Real Heroes of New Orleans

Real Heroes of New Orleans

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A must read, this article contrasts the behavior of the working-class people of New Orleans with that of the various officials they had to deal with. A very interesting dispatch. Quite naturally, we asked, “If we can’t go to the only two shelters in the city, what was our alternative?” The guards told us that this was our problem–and no, they didn’t have extra water to give to us. This would be the start of our numerous encounters with callous…

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