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• What's important this election, Mom?
One women’s group encouraging candidates to adopt a more family-friendly platform is “ MomsRising .”  The 140,000 members of this national advocacy organization often stage demonstrations at lawmakers’ offices to lobby for more paid family ...
• Experts rethinking billions spent on AIDS
Part of the issue is advocacy. From celebrity ambassadors to red ribbons, other diseases have been left by the wayside. "No one is beating the drum for basic health problems," said Daniel Halperin, an AIDS expert at the Harvard University's School of ...
• Pizzeria serves up a steamy side of porn
... is actually a lot more open to the concept than society would think," he said. Not everyone in Winnipeg is pleased. “We live in a society that is so steeped in porn that people have it delivered to the dinner table,” Roz Prober of child advocacy ...
• Polygamist sect raid raises legal concerns
... teenagers — is raising constitutional questions, even in a state where authorities have wide latitude for taking a family's children. The move has the appearance of "a class-action child removal," said Jessica Dixon, director of the child advocacy ...
• Murdoch's bid for Newsday draws opposition
For several consumer advocacy groups, the mere prospect of Murdoch getting another New York media outlet is unacceptable. Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause in New York, called the potential acquisition “a step back that will hurt our ...

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» Alliance for Justice - National association of environmental, civil rights, mental health, women's, children's and consumer advocacy organizations.
» American Benefits Council - Advocate for voluntary private employee benefits, based in Washington, DC, USA. Mission, members, issues, news, publications, and calendar.
» Center for Community Change - CCC helps poor people develop their own strong organizations to improve their communities and change policies and institutions that affect their lives.
» Creations Guardians - An education and outreach organization dedicated to a vision of a new world where there is no hatred, violence, hunger or poverty and in which the environment and all of the creatures are protected from destruction and mismanagement by both public and private interests.
» Office of the Americas - Dedicated to the cause of Justice and Peace in the hemisphere through broad based educational programs.
» The Peace and Justice Foundation, Inc. - A human rights oriented education and advocacy organization, which organises demonstrations and educational initiatives.
» Southern Poverty Law Center - Founded in 1971, is a non-profit organization that combats hate, intolerance and discrimination through education and litigation. Located in Montgomery, Alabama, it is also the site of the Maya Lin-designed Civil Rights Memorial.