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**TAKE ACTION** Twisted and Cruel: New Mexico Rape Survivors Forced To Contact Attackers For Child Support ** PLEASE SIGN**
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, activists, americans, children, corruption, crime, culture, dishonesty, education, freedoms, government, HUMAN RIGHTS, police, politics, religion, rights, society, violence, women )

Kit
- 231 days ago - act.watchdog.net
Thanks to Republican Gov. Susana Martinez, women seeking state assistance for babies resulting from rape will soon have to find a way to prove the pregnancy resulted from a sexual assault, narrowing the definition of rape in New Mexico to an almost -->
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**TAKE ACTION** Judge Pardons Sex Offender **PLEASE SIGN**
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, activists, americans, crime, culture, dishonesty, ethics, freedoms, government, justice, politics, safety, society, women )

Kit
- 238 days ago - act.watchdog.net
Bad things can happen in bars, Hatch told the victim, adding that other people might be more intoxicated than she was. "If you wouldn't have been there that night, none of this would have happened to you," Hatch said.
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Republican Lawmaker Wants to Jail Rape Victims for Ending Pregnancies
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, americans, culture, dishonesty, education, ethics, freedoms, government, police, politics, religion, rights, society, women, violence )

Kit
- 146 days ago - alternet.org
A New Mexico lawmaker has proposed that the fetus is evidence and terminating it could cost women three years in jail.
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*TAKE ACTION* Mr. President, Please Do Not Cut Social Security!
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, americans, culture, CPI, elderly, freedoms, government, politics, safety, society, Social Security )

Kit
- 72 days ago - signon.org
Chained CPI explained in 2 minutes. Please sign. Watch short video from Robert Reich.
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**TAKE ACTION** Newtown,Connecticut Site of Friday's Shooting: Today We Tell Our Leaders "No More!"
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, americans, children, crime, culture, death, dishonesty, education, ethics, family, freedoms, government, law, media, murder, politics, rights, safety, society, violence )

Kit
- 186 days ago - signon.org
"We've endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years. And each time I learn the news I react not as a president, but as anybody else would, as a parent. And that was especially true today." Please sign and share.
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Give Your Support For The Changes to Offensive Medical Terminology
Society & Culture  (tags: child, children, culture, education, environment, ethics, family, freedoms, GoodNews, health, humans, media, society )

Paul
- 21 days ago - forcechange.com
Target: American Psychiatric Association - Goal: Praise them for having changed the term "mental retardation" to "intellectual disability"
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Stop Nigeria's "Jail the Gays" Bill ACTION
Society & Culture  (tags: Nigeria, freedoms, gayrights, government, culture, law, humanrights, world )

Nancy
- 214 days ago - allout.org
At any moment, Nigeria's parliament could pass one of the harshest anti-gay laws the world has ever seen. 10 years in prison for living with someone of the same sex 10 years in prison for supporting the idea of a pride march 14 years in prison...
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Mormon Church Abandons Its Crusade Against Gay Marriage
Society & Culture  (tags: ghts, Mormon Church, culture, ethics, rights, gayrights, society, politics, usa, religion )

Cal
- 66 days ago - motherjones.com
Prop. 8 backlash has led the Latter Day Saints to soften their treatment of LGBT church members.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Demand Equal Pay Rights for Women in the Workforce
Society & Culture  (tags: women's rights, freedoms, labor, equal pay for equal work, society, politics, culture, americans, government, rights, women, news )

Cal
- 131 days ago - forcechange.com
Give women the opportunity for equal pay by allowing wage inquiry and limiting employer retaliation
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**TAKE ACTION** STOP Anti-Woman Legislation Now **PLEASE SIGN**
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, activists, americans, crime, culture, dishonesty, ethics, freedoms, government, Human Rights, police, politics, rights, safety, society, violence, women )

Kit
- 145 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Because we support the human right to self determination of ones own life, we stand in strong opposition to this legislation proposal.
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Multiple Fatalities Reported in Shooting at Connecticut Elementary School
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, activists, americans, children, crime, culture, death, dishonesty, education, ethics, family, freedoms, government, law, media, murder, news, police, politics, rights, society, violence )

Kit
- 187 days ago - nytimes.com
At last news up date there are 29 dead, 8 adults and the rest are children from K - 4 th grade. Gun man is dead, details in story from New York Times.
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*TAKE ACTION* Demand Justice for Aaron Swartz, Protect All of Our Rights! *PLEASE SIGN*
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, activists, americans, corruption, culture, dishonesty, education, ethics, freedoms, government, law, internet, media, politics, rights, safety, society )

Kit
- 74 days ago - fixthecfaa.com
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is the law under which Aaron Swartz and other innovators and activists have been threatened with decades in prison. The CFAA is so broad that law enforcement says it criminalizes all sorts of mundane Internet -->
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Day Before Connecticut Shooting Massacre, Michigan Legislature Passed Bill Allowing Guns In Classrooms
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, americans, children, crime, culture, dishonesty, education, environment, ethics, freedoms, government, guns, law, murder, news, police, politics, rights, society, safety, violence )

Kit
- 186 days ago - thinkprogress.org
Amidst a lameduck session that has spawned a host of right-wing legislation, including a so-called "right-to-work" law and an extreme abortion ban, a "sweeping rewrite of Michigan's concealed handgun law" was also approved yesterday.
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Inside Twisted Terrorist Minds -- Where Is the Empathy?
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, activists, americans, assembly, Boston, children, crime, culture, dishonesty, education, ethics, family, freedoms, politics, rights, sadness, society, violence )

Kit
- 63 days ago - livescience.com
"There's no profile, there's no personality, there's no checklist and there is no silver-bullet solution that helps explain why and how people become involved in terrorism," Horgan told LiveScience.
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Accusations of Jewish Self-Hatred and Anti-Semitism Are a Strategy to Hide From One's Self-Reflection
Society & Culture  (tags: activists, americans, culture, dishonesty, education, ethics, freedoms, government, Israel. media, Palestine, politics, religion, rights, society )

Kit
- 339 days ago - richardforer.com
Anyone who follows the debate over Israel-Palestine knows how automatic and routine it is for one side to label those who disagree with Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people as self-hating Jews, Israel haters or anti-Semites.
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