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Please Sign: Tell Texas to Stop Jailing Kids for Missing School
Society & Culture  (tags: children, abuse, education, ethics, Texasm exploitation of children, jailing kids for turancy, violation of Constitutional rights, US Dept of Justice investigationfreedoms )

Susan
- 1 day ago - thepetitionsite.com
Texas has been imprisoning kids for truancy, and the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating. Stricter state truancy laws since 2003 have led to a number of enforcement abuses by some school systems, says a complaint filed with the DOJ last week.
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222 Million Women Can't Plan Their Lives ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, women, contraception, protection, environment )

Cher
- 1 hour ago - takepart.com
222 million women today lack access to modern contraception-- that's 222 million women who can't plan their fertility or their lives. Demand that the U.S. government take action to help women gain access to methods of contraception and live healthy lives
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Please Sign: Tell ALEC to Stop Trying to Deny Workers Sick Leave
Society & Culture  (tags: American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC Exposed, Governor Scott, Sick Pay, Sick Leave, puppet lawmakers, Florida bill to block sick pay, Steve Precourt, attack on wage and labor standards )

Susan
- 12 hours ago - thepetitionsite.com
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is at it again. This time the right-wing group that drafts bills for conservative puppet lawmakers is behind a Florida bill to block sick leave pay. ALEC's agenda to weaken wage and labor standards must end
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McDonald's: Stop Forcing Employees to Use Fee-Riddled Debit Cards to Cash Their Checks
Society & Culture  (tags: McDonald's, justice, petitions, working class )

Freya
- 15 hours ago - action.sumofus.org
When single mother Natalie Gunshannon went to get her first paycheck from her new job at McDonald's, she was in for a shock -- McDonald's gave her her wages on a fee-riddled debit card that would charge her every time she used it, charging her $5 just...
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Baton Rouge's New Plan For Its Homeless Population: Give Them One-Way Bus Tickets
Society & Culture  (tags: society, Homeless, humans )

Jason
- 1 day ago - thinkprogress.org
Baton Rouge has a new idea for how to treat its 800 homeless residents: give them a one-way ticket out of town. Late last week, the city's Metro Council approved a measure to fund one-way bus tickets for homeless people.
4 comments
Celebrities Don Fedoras to Push Immigration Reform - 6/17/13: Help Kick Off Week of Action - Call Congress Today!
Society & Culture  (tags: immigration reform, comprehensive, common sense, campaign, 'We Belong Together', women, children, families, LGBT, together, united, critical action week, US Senate, notable celebrities, Hollywood, 'Fedoras4Fairness' )

LucyKalei
- 6 hours ago - colorlines.com
J Moore, R Perez, C Nixon, J Leguizamo & C Turlington among celebrities appearing in photo project & video called "Fedoras4Fairness," commissioned by We Belong Together campaign for comprehensive immigration reform focused on women's experiences & needs
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Golden Toads Protest Fossil Fuels At Chase Bank
Society & Culture  (tags: climate change, global warming, extinction, Reverend Billy, Billy Talen, Church of Stop Shopping, Golden Toads, Chase Bank, JP Morgan Chase, financiers, fossil fuels, coal, dirty energy, toxic, divest now )

Brian
- 1 day ago - rawstory.com
Chase Bank was the latest victim of Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Singing Golden Toads protests against fossil fuels. JP Morgan Chase is one of the biggest financiers of the coal industry.
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Red Robin Ad Mocks Vegetarians With 'Teen Phase' Joke. Guess Who's Not Laughing?
Society & Culture  (tags: restaurants, vegetarians, vegetarianism, menus, ads )

Freya
- 16 hours ago - shine.yahoo.com
Are vegetarians humorless? It's the question being asked this week after a Red Robin television ad offended herbivores by touting its 24 types of burgers and then noting, with an implied eye roll and mock whisper, "We even have a Gardenburger--just in...
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Dog Rescuer Sells All Her Possessions to Keep Her Fur-Family Together!
Society & Culture  (tags: women, usa, society, sadness, humans, health, family, environment, americans )

Paul
- 10 hours ago - lifewithdogs.tv
Gail Calver (58) has been rescuing pets on her own for the past 25 years and like many other Americans, she has fallen on harsh economic times. Now, she is selling all she has in an attempt to buy a used RV and keep her fur-family together.
1 comment
PHOTOS: Brazilians Flood Streets To Protest World Cup Spending, Government Corruption
Society & Culture  (tags: Brazil, Protesters, World Cup, Politics )

Roxy
- 6 hours ago - thinkprogress.org
Brazil experienced its biggest wave of protests in more than two decades as up to a quarter of a million people took to the streets of a dozen cities on Monday night in a mass outpouring of anger against the country's political class
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Jihad on Egypt's Christian Children
Society & Culture  (tags: Moslem Brotherhood, Christians, Copts, Egypt )

David
- 54 minutes ago - meforum.org
Attacks on Christian boys & girls are on the rise in Egypt. Another indicator that a rapidly Islamizing Egypt is hostile to its oldest & most indigenous inhabitants, the Copts. as happened to the Jews before them, An example of what happens to "others"
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EU to Vote on ALLEGED Ban on Neonicotinoids
Society & Culture  (tags: healthconditions, endangered, habitat, science, animals, AnimalWelfare, habitat, ethics, extinction, ethics, humans, death, environment, ethics, food, health, science, business, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, environment, ethics, farming, safety, scie )

Leuth
- 58 minutes ago - causes.com
FUTURE: -Neonicotinoids will be used on winter crops, permeating soil and water. - Untreated Spring / Summer crops will be infected by the pesticide residue and poison bees. - large-scale bee mortality will persist, despite alleged ban on neonicotinoids.
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