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The Bristol Bay is home to endangered Northern Pacific right whales and Steller sea lions. It is also one of the world’s most productive fishing grounds, with and important snow crab fishery and the planet’s largest sockeye salmon run.

But President Bush has a different vision for this precious piece of the Pacific: he wants to turn it over to profit-rich Big Oil, lifting a moratorium that has been in place since the disastrous Exxon Valdez spill.

Now is not the time to open more wild lands to oil drilling. It’s the time to protect ...   more »

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Efforts by the ONE Campaign helped to secure a one billion dollar increase in anti-poverty funding for 2007. But Congress failed to pass funding bills for the 2007 fiscal year in the closing hours of their session.

The result is that any funding increases that we secured in 2006 are in jeopardy - as are the lives and livelihoods of millions of the world's poorest people who were counting on this funding. They risk losing access to anti-malarial bed nets, AIDS medicines, clean water, and the opportunity to send their children to school.

Thankfully, there ...   more »

Roderick “Teachers are terrorists” Paige, the failed Bush Administration Secretary of Education and a group of corporate shills have released a report calling for privatizing the public schools. The report advances the Republican agenda by calling for the elimination of teacher pension funds and creating re-training accounts which do nothing for those who cannot afford to fund their account.

Looking at this report reminded me that Democrats. liberals, and progressives must get serious about real family values in opposition to the Repbulcian right-wing family values which are used to label people the Republicans don't like as lazy, immoral, or deficient. So, I wrote ...   more »

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According to UNICEF, 29,000 children die every day from preventable causes, like malaria, measles and diarrhea. It's an outrage, and it doesn't have to be that way.

We know how to save the lives of millions of children a year with an integrated package of low-cost, high-impact interventions – including insecticide-treated bed-nets to fight malaria, immunizations for childhood diseases like measles and tetanus, antibiotics to cure pneumonia, and clean water to prevent diarrhea.

As part of the Millennium Development Goals, the entire world, including the United States, committed to reducing the death rate for children ...   more »

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Great news! The DIRTY secret got out, consumers spoke up, and Victoria's Secret realized there is nothing SEXY about forest destruction. Care2's partner ForestEthics and Victoria's Secret have reached a landmark agreement on environmental stewardship!

When ForestEthics began this campaign two years ago, Victoria's Secret was printing 395 million catalogs every year on paper made predominately from virgin pulp from North America's Boreal Forest as well as other endangered forests. What's worse, it contained NO recycled content.

Recently, thanks in part to Care2 activists who sent thousands of letters, Victoria's Secret's parent company, Limited Brands, ...   more »

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Wal-Mart has repeatedly violated U.S. child labor laws and profited from overseas child labor abuses.

A recent investigation revealed children, some only 11 years old, were making Wal-Mart clothes in a Bangladesh factory. The children report being routinely slapped and beaten, forced to work 12 to 14 hours a day, often seven days a week, for wages as low as 6 and a half cents an hour.

In the United States, Wal-Mart's own internal audit found 1,371 instances in which minors worked too late at night, during school hours, or too many hours in a ...   more »