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June 02, 2009
June 2, 2009The legislative session in Texas ended without enacting a dangerous bill that would have forced the carrying of hidden and loaded guns at universities and colleges. Students and gun violence prevention advocates were ecstatic for the initial victory and that college campuses would remain safe from the gun lobby's threats. But advocates cautioned that the gun lobby would not stop pushing its deadly legislation and called on lawmakers to protect universities from being run over by the NRA's radical agenda. Full release.
After single-handedly taking an ax to vital services, Tim Pawlenty is expected to announce today that he will leave Minnesota Republicans with a bitter legacy of partisanship and heartless budget cuts. His sour record will hamstring Republicans' next nominee for governor - and improves the chances of electing a Democratic governor in Minnesota. Full release.
Amnesty International today urgently demanded that Mexican authorities step up protection around well-known human rights activist and journalist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, whose home and offices in Cancun are being regularly photographed and watched by an armed man while her life has been threatened in online messages. The human rights organization said it fears for her life and called on Mexican authorities to guarantee her safety. Cacho has been harassed, threatened and detained by police over the years for her work exposing child pornography and prostitution. Full release.
Not On Our Watch, the international advocacy and aid organization founded by actors George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, producer Jerry Weintraub and human rights lawyer David Pressman, has awarded the U.S. Fund for UNICEF a grant of $438,000 to assist at-risk Zimbabwean refugee children living on the South Africa-Zimbabwe border. The grant will provide critical support for child protection and welfare services for 1,500 unaccompanied and vulnerable children in the border town of Musina, South Africa. Full release.
As Latino Americans assume roles at the highest levels of the Obama Administration, Congress and perhaps the U.S. Supreme Court, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) will assemble nearly eight hundred Latino officials to prepare to help craft the nation's public policy at all levels of government. The NALEO 26th Annual Conference will take place in Los Angeles, California from June 25-27, 2009. Full release.
The Michigan Chamber of Commerce today called on Democrats in Michigan's Congressional Delegation to rethink their support of the deceptively-named Employee Free Choice Act, better known as the Card Check legislation. Full release.
Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and is one of the world's foremost spiritual teachers, will embark on a teaching tour of the United States in the autumn of 2009. Full release.
Thomas J. Rundquist (Democrat) of Nova Counseling Associates Inc., a nova media unit, has an edited article from Entrepreneur Magazine's Management Smarts May 1997 ... with permission explaining its use for researchers of discrimination. According to the Nova Web site. Full release.