Tag: Press Release

Activists to Demand Explanations from Caterpillar at Stockholder Meeting Wednesday

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Deneen Borelli of the African-American group Project 21 will confront Caterpillar Inc. management at the corporation's shareholder's meeting Wednesday, demanding it explain why it joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), which lobbies for energy restrictions on the U.S. economy ...
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70-Plus Groups Confront Caterpillar on Eve of Shareholder Meeting

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Washington, D.C. - On the eve of the Caterpillar Corporation's stockholders meeting in Chicago, 70+ groups and companies have sent a letter to Caterpillar, Inc.  CEO Jim Owens urging him to immediately withdraw Caterpillar from the United States Climate Action ...
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Sanctions on Sudan Applauded; Darfur Situation “An Embarrassment” to the Civilized World, Says Project 21, “Strong Determined Action” Needed to Stop Suffering of the People of Darfur

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President Bush began the work week with an early-morning press conference in which he announced U.S.-imposed sanctions on government and rebel leaders in Sudan and Sudanese-controlled companies due to their role in prolonging the mass murder in Sudan's Darfur region ...
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Black Activists Urge Caution on Immigration Compromise

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Black activists with the Project 21 leadership network are skeptical of the just-announced compromise legislation on immigration reform brokered between senators and the Bush Administration. "This debate should not be about civil rights.  It should be about law and order," ...
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Think Tank Challenges Greenpeace to Meet Transparency Standards

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   Today The National Center for Public Policy Research is challenging Greenpeace and its affiliates to disclose the sources and amounts of its 2006 donations exceeding $50,000.  If it does so, The National Center for Public Policy Research will do ...
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Where are Sharpton and Jackson? Rape Jokes About Condoleezza Rice as Offensive as Insults against Rutgers Basketball Team

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In light of popular radio hosts joking on-air about violently raping Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the black leadership network Project 21 is asking: Where are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? Both Sharpton and Jackson protested when the now-fired Don ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Sharpton Must Apologize; Weeks After Imus Crusade, Sharpton Shows Intolerance of His Own

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Black activists representing the Project 21 leadership network are calling upon the Reverend Al Sharpton to acknowledge and apologize for his inappropriate and insensitive remarks directed at the Mormon faith.  The particular shame of Sharpton making such a statement, Project ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Referee Racism in Pro Basketball? Black Activists Skeptical of New Study

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Black activists charged today that premature release of a new study claiming a racial bias by NBA referees will unnecessarily incite racial tensions. Business professor Justin Wolfers of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Joseph Price, a ...
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On the Consumer Alliance on Energy Security and the OCS

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On April 30, The Consumer Alliance on Energy Security issued a press release on the need to expand access to domestic energy supplies in the Outer Continental Shelf. The online version of the press release suggests the National Center for ...
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Blacks Back Wolfowitz: Project 21 Members and International Leaders Praise Wolfowitz’s Focus on Africa; Efforts to End Poverty and Corruption

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Black activists with the Project 21 leadership network are voicing their support for embattled World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz because of his strong commitment to helping ease poverty and suffering on the African continent. "It's unconscionable that, when there is ...
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