Posted on July 24, 2015
90,000 activists demand investigation of child imprisonment
Over 90,000 activists have urged Attorney General Loretta Lynch to investigate the practice of putting children in adult prisons! This miscarriage of justice has to end. We’re delivering our petition to the attorney general next week, and we …
Posted on July 16, 2015
Petition: The Monsanto Protection Act is back — and worse than before
The biggest threat to GMO labeling that we’ve ever seen could soon become law if we don’t act now. Republican Congressman Mike Pompeo, Monsanto’s hand-picked representative in Washington, has combined his anti-GMO labeling bill, the “DARK Act,” with …
Posted on July 10, 2015
Petition: Fix the Voting Rights Act now
Fifty years ago this summer, at the height of the civil rights movement, Congress passed and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act to prohibit racial discrimination in voting. The law wasn’t perfect, but it frequently …
Posted on July 7, 2015
Petition: Stop the sneak attack on Net Neutrality
On June 12, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Open Internet Order mandating the strongest Net Neutrality protections in history finally went into effect. It was a tremendous victory for the millions of Americans, including hundreds of thousands of …
Posted on June 29, 2015
The latest Republican attack on women
Here they go again. Republicans in Congress have introduced another bill to cut off women’s access to health care. This time they are trying to eliminate Title X, the only federal program devoted to providing low-income women with …
Posted on June 26, 2015
CREDO celebrates Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage
Today, the Supreme Court legalized marriage equality across the U.S. Congratulations. We now pronounce this country a better place. Here at CREDO, we’ve been working for marriage equality and LGBT rights for 30 years, since the day we …
Posted on April 16, 2015
Big Telecom sues over net neutrality
We scored a huge victory over Big Telecom companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon when the Federal Communications Commission announced plans to enact strong rules to protect net neutrality under Title II. But now, AT&T is challenging the …
Posted on April 2, 2015
Victory: EPA restricts Monsanto’s bee-killing insecticide
Big news in the fight to save bee populations from pesticides: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced that it won’t approve any new or expanded uses of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides while it continues to study the threats …
