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The government-backed Japanese whaling fleet has set sail into the protected waters of the Southern Ocean Sanctuary around Antarctica. The Japanese government attempts to defend its whaling program by calling it "scientific" whaling. In reality, this deadly program is nothing more than unlawful commercial whaling in disguise. We don't need to kill whales to study them in the 21st century. More than 30,000 whales have been killed since a global ban on commercial whaling came into effect in 1986. Japan must not continue its whaling program! Tell Japanese Ambassador Ryozo Kato to immediately stop the senseless annual killing of whales.
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Officials in the Bush/Cheney Administration are moving forward with plans to allow wolves to be killed in Idaho and Wyoming even before the animals are removed from the list of federally protected endangered and threatened species.

Help us stop them. Sign the petition today to send a message to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and urge him to abandon efforts to let states start killing wolves and to delay de-listing of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies.
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Taslima Nasrin, prominent feminist, Atheist and secularist is seeking freedom of movement and speech in her newly-adopted refuge of India.

Ms. Nasrin is an outspoken international critic of religious intolerance and oppression of women. Theocratic regimes and governments wishing to “not offend religion” have censored or banned her writings. Mobs of religious fanatics have been demanding her execution, and Ms. Nasrin – a native of Bangladesh – was forced to flee her homeland. She is currently hiding in India, but the government, catering to the demands of Islamic and other militant sectarian groups, has restricted her activities and movements.

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"The first thing we have to do is end this war. And the right person to end it is someone who had the judgment to oppose it from the beginning." - Barack Obama, October 2, 2007

Just weeks ago, the Bush administration opened the door to establishing permanent military bases in Iraq. Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, the administration's deputy national security adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan, stated that permanent military bases in Iraq will be "on the negotiating table" during talks next year on the long-term security relationship between the U.S. and Iraq.

We need real leadership to get us out of Iraq. Barack Obama opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning. He has a clear, realistic plan to end it. Under a Barack Obama administration, the occupation of Iraq will end and there will be no permanent military bases inside Iraq.

Join Barack Obama in telling the Bush administration: no permanent military bases in Iraq!
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Every morning, millions of women and teenage girls could be putting their health at risk as they unknowingly expose themselves to toxins - including lead - that may lead to reproductive birth defects, infertility and cancer.

According to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, of all the chemicals used in cosmetics, nearly 900 are toxic.

In fact, 450 ingredients that are used in the U.S. are banned for use in cosmetics in the European Union!

In spite of all this, the Food and Drug Administration doesn’t require strict safety testing before beauty products hit the market. Most readily available makeup is loaded with chemicals that are either untested for long-term effects on your health, or have already been proven to have potentially harmful qualities.

As they set their priorities for 2008, urge Congress to require the FDA to adequately test and regulate ingredients used in our personal care products!

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Human consumption is stripping away the tremendous variety of wildlife and biological diversity of the rainforest.

In recent years, tropical deforestation has emerged as one of the leading causes of both global warming and decreased biological diversity. As the rainforest dwindles and human threats increase, the population of rare rainforest species like the jaguar plummets.

The Selva Maya is one of the most important tropical rainforests on earth and home to the jaguar. Some of the Selva Maya's resources can be preserved through work with indigenous communities. But before we can truly save endangered rainforests, an international change in attitude must be made. 

The holidays are notorious for the consumption of resources. You can be one of the leaders in rainforest preservation by becoming a more conscious consumer.

This holiday season, pledge to give at least one gift that conserves, rather than consumes, rainforest habitat!

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