Posted on February 21, 2014
VICTORY: Gov. Brewer vetoes S.B. 1062
S.B. 1062 is a bill that codifies, rationalizes and justifies discrimination for religious purposes and would lead to unfair treatment of gay and lesbian Arizonans. The bill passed both the Senate and House and without any support from …
Posted on February 1, 2014
VICTORY: MI-CATS 3 freed
Vicci Hamlin, Lisa Leggio and Barbara Carter – the MI-CATS 3 – locked themselves to machinery to block the construction of Enbridge’s line $6B tar sands pipeline. The pipeline is the same one that, in 2010, spilled more …
Posted on January 15, 2014
VICTORY: President Obama raises wages for federal contractors to $10.10/hr
After more than 65,000 CREDO members signed a petition and helped put pressure on President Obama to address the hardships faced by millions of federal contractors nationwide, President Obama announced on Jan. 28 that he would be signing …
Posted on January 12, 2014
VICTORY: Maryland raises the minimum wage
At just $7.25 an hour, Maryland’s minimum wage left a family of three stuck below the poverty line. Like workers being paid the minimum wage in the other 49 states, Maryland workers couldn’t even afford to pay for …
Posted on December 27, 2013
VICTORY: Radio Disney pulls out of pro–fossil fuel “Rocking in Ohio”
“Rocking in Ohio” is a road show where popular Radio Disney DJs lead kids in interactive presentations where – with pop music blaring in the background – they play games, build pretend pipelines out of colorful plastic, and …
Posted on November 16, 2013
VICTORY: FEC holds Tea Party accountable
The Federal Election Commission was on the verge of granting a prominent Washington Tea Party group an exemption from federal reporting and disclosure requirements not only for donors, but also for expenditures. If the Tea Party got its …
Posted on November 12, 2013
VICTORY: Texas State Board of Education approves science textbooks based on established science
Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) has the power to vote on science materials that will be in classrooms for the next decade. And for years, an anti-science faction of that board has done all it can to …
Posted on October 31, 2013
VICTORY: GMO crops banned on Hawaii island
Hawaii imports over 90 percent of its food. Biotech companies claim that greater use of genetically modified crops will make Hawaii more self-sufficient in its food supply, but in reality they are growing these crops on the other …
Posted on October 16, 2013
VICTORY: Justice for sexual assault survivor Daisy Coleman
In January 2012, Daisy Coleman was sexually assaulted and left unconscious overnight on her Maryville, Missouri front yard in freezing temperatures. A few months later, charges against her accused attacker – a high school football player with a …
Posted on October 8, 2013
VICTORY: Ole Miss protects LGBTQ equality
During a performance of “The Laramie Project” at Ole Miss — a play describing the life, the brutal beating, and the death of Matthew Shepard — audience members began booing, calling out derogatory slurs, and harassing the actors. …
