Italian-American Organization Stands in Solidarity With Victims of Italian Earthquake

Columbus Citizens Foundation Calls on Americans to be Prepared to Offer Contributions, Goods, and Assistance as Scores Die and Tens of Thousands are Left Homeless NEW YORK, April 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The catastrophic earthquake in Italy this morning that has left an undetermined numbe...

Nurses From Across Nation Join Solidarity Caravan in Support of Striking Kentucky RNs

RNs from National Nurses Organizing Committee Donate $10,000 and Send Delegation OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Registered Nurses from the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association have donated $10,000 in support of RNs striking ...

Advocates for Health Millennium Development Goals Unite to Demand World Leaders Honor Funding Commitments

...p devoted to advocating for the universal right to health. A Declaration of solidarity for a Unified Movement for the Right to Health was drafted at that meeting,...f advocates, many of whom are signed on to this document, is now working in solidarity to hold the powers of the world accountable. "We are all health a...

Hey Governator! Don't Terminate Senior Funding!

...g a massive 10-minute "Senior Stand-In" at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, June 12. Stand-in locations across Los Angeles County are listed below. The show of solidarity is in peaceful protest of Governor Schwarzeneggar's proposed $14 million budget cut which would completely eliminate funding statewide for vital progr...

Courageous Cancer Survivors Honored at Intergraph(R) Garden of Hope

...ase. The Garden of Hope holds one planting in the spring and another in the fall each year and continues to stand as a unique symbol of determination, solidarity and hope. Spring 2009 Intergraph Garden of Hope Honorees: Wayne Hamlin Wayne Hamlin's cancer story is a recent one. In September...

Through Light There Is Hope

...unday, May 10 on the steps of the Carnegie Museum during The ALS Association's 2009 National ALS Advocacy Day and Public Policy Conference to show its solidarity in the fight against Lou Gehrig's Disease, and to remember and honor the brave men and women who either lost their lives or are battling the disease. ...

Bone Marrow Registry to Launch Groundbreaking Fundraising Technology to Overcome Madoff Crisis

...one where I actually can see the people whose lives we’ve saved, and that’s Gift of Life.” Over 500 invited guests will stand in solidarity with Gift of Life on May 14, including over 100 bone marrow donors and transplant survivors. Honored guests include Steve Geller, Co-Founder and Chair...

RN 'Super Union' Takes Next Step in Building Strong National Voice for Nurses With Focus on Organizing

...assertively to improve conditions and standards for RNs and patients, including adoption of RN-to-patient staffing ratios, and providing a vehicle for solidarity with sister nurse and allied organizations around the world. ...

Entertainment Fusion Group Gives Back

...here participants shave their heads in return for pledges of financial support from friends and family. Participants find that shaving their heads in solidarity with the 160,000 children who are diagnosed with cancer each year is a small sacrifice in comparison to what these children endure, and want to raise ...

Video: Avon Commits Over $1.75 Million for New Partnerships to End Violence Against Women

...omen worldwide are affected by violence," explained Witherspoon. "The Empowerment Necklace is an easy way for all women to take action and demonstrate solidarity to reduce the worldwide epidemic of violence against women. As Honorary Chair of the Avon Foundation, as a woman, and as a mother, I am proud to suppo...

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38.7 Million People Break Guinness World Record for Stand Up Speak Out on International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

...igh profile concert. People called for cancellation of debt servicing to eradicate poverty and at the end 1000 candles were lit to express solidarity with the GCAP movement. -- In South Africa, children in Pretoria stood up and the residents of the Big Brother Africa House joined the call light...

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World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

...de range of organizations, individuals, and experts to help strengthen the Encyclopedia and its impact on communities throughout the world. "The solidarity of the U.S. and global communities for the Encyclopedia of Life is tremendously exciting and lifts my confidence that this vast, romantic global effor...

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David Brooks: Segmented nation looks for solidarity amid IT-powered niches

Madison, Wis. - New York Times columnist David Brooks has chronicled a few revolutions during his career, and he believes American society is in the midst of two fundamental changes - a neuro science and genetics revolution and an information technology revolution that promotes individual pow...

Achieving digital solidarity

Net 2004 in Lille, France. This four-year-old conference draws nearly 1,000 people from around Europe to discuss the transformative power of technology. As the lead speaker on a two-hour panel on Technological Trends and Changing Economic and Social Conditions, I was eager, frankly, to dispense...

Thousands Rally in Mexico City and Call for Human Rights Protections in Global AIDS Response

... at an International AIDS Conference. Groups representing human rights, HIV, development, public health, gender, and other issues showed unprecedented solidarity in endorsing the human rights declaration. "This rally should mark a turning point in the global response to HIV," said Jonathan Cohen, director of ...

Edmonton to be site of world's first industrial scale municipal waste-to-ethanol facility

...another commercial- scale cellulosic ethanol production plant in Westbury, Canada. The company is backed financially by Braemar Energy Ventures, solidarity Fund QFL and Rho Ventures. About the City of Edmonton -------------------------- - The City of Edmonton (http://www.edmonton.ca ) is at the f...

A Magnetic Gift: Sumter Regional Hospital Receives New MRI as Charitable Donation From Siemens

... has the facility to support it. The devastating effect of last spring's tornado on Sumter and the community it serves struck a chord with Siemens. In solidarity with those at Sumter, Siemens is looking forward to the day when the re-built facility is able to support healthcare equipment such as the Siemens MAG...

Israel's Ministry of Communications, 012 Smile.Communications, Intel and Alvarion Join in Launching WiMAX Initiative for Sderot, a City in the Western Negev

...el's Ministry of Communications, Intel Corporation (NYSE: INTC ) and Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR ), in launching a WiMAX project as an expression of solidarity with the residents of Sderot, Israel and the entire Western Negev region due to the security situation in the region. Following approvals by the Israe...