I just have to say this publicly:

To the folks over at Burger King: THANK YOU

Even just the fact that you're considering, let alone *changing* your policies about how your meat and egg animals are raised and slaughtered is awesome.

You have the power to make a huge difference - thank you for using it, even just a tiny bit. Here's hoping you set ( Read more... )

Thanks to concerned citizens like you, Care2 members and our partners at Defenders of Wildlife have already submitted 100,000 official public comments to stop a federal proposal that could spark the slaughter of hundreds of wolves in Idaho and Wyoming.

The bad news is that even as we fight to stop the proposal, the Idaho Anti-Wolf Coalition has ( Read more... )

This was posted over in _survivors_, and I thought it was a great cause, so I'm passing along the links to y'all :)

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Please Help Me Support The Boston Area Rape Crisis CenterThis is way too good of an opportunity to pass up, especially as a survivor, so I'll be joining the 2nd annual benefit walk for Boston Area Rape ( Read more... )

Please take a moment to do what you can at: http://www.elizabethmuststay.co.uk/index.htm

Elizabeth* is a Ugandan lesbian who fled to the UK in 2004, having lived her
life as a lesbian secretly for many years. One night after being out with
friends at an underground gay club she was visited at her home by several men
she now believes to have been ( Read more... )

Lexington parent can't cope with school teaching her kid about real life; bitches to newspaper

The teacher at Joseph Estabrook Elementary School used the children's book,''King & King," as part of a lesson about different types of weddings. A prince marries another prince instead of a princess in the book, which was on the American Library ( Read more... )

Several months ago, Care2 invited many of you to participate in a groundbreaking study of mercury levels in people like you and me.Thanks to your help, we collected over 6,600 hair samples, and the preliminary results of the study are frightening: one in five women of childbearing age exceeds the EPA's recommended limit for mercury and risks ( Read more... )

A good article on how the funding cuts to Domestic Violence prevention programs are effecting things

Thanks to copperbeech for the link

The petition to keep the Detroit Zoo Open

To:  Detroit City Council
Due to Detroit's financial situation, there has been word about the Detroit Zoo shutting its doors.

The Detroit Zoo has been an asset to the community and a jewel to the city. It has brought in over 1 million visitors annually and houses a variety of animals.

We, as the public, ( Read more... )

Dear Friend ( Read more... )

Dear Friend ( Read more... )