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Criminal charges for rescuing a dog?


Petitioning Chrissy Adams, Mike Crenshaw

Drop charges against the man who rescued a dog
Petition by Richard Tavernaro
Acworth, Georgia
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Supporters
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The man who killed my mom …Change.org

Adam Monreal: Don’t let the man who killed my mom go free

Anna Stevens
Petersburg, Illinois
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On this Day … 1972 ERA


1972

Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress

On March 22, 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Senate and sent to the states for ratification. First proposed by the National Woman’s political party in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment was to provide for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis…

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Victory!
Gas Project in U’wa Territory Dismantled
“TheU’wa people would liketoinform national and international public opinion that the Magallanes gas exploration block has been completely dismantled.Ecopetrol has removed all the machinery that had been found thereina demonstration of respect for our rights as an indigenous people.”What a difference a year can make! In early 2014, Amazon Watch began receiving urgent alerts from Colombia’sU’wa people about a new threat to their territory. In a public communiqué dated February 26th 2014, theU’wa Association denounced the Magallanes gas exploration project as “an imminent threat to the physical, social and cultural integrity of theU’wa indigenous people, along with [their] environment and ancestral territory.”READ THE REST ON EYE ON THE AMAZON
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