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Sarah Palin made headlines last week for coming up with the latest Palinism - refudiate - and for comparing herself to Shakespeare. Now it's just too bad that her accompanying inflammatory comments about the Islamic faith didn't get the same type of media play.
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A judge in Michigan has thrown out the bioterrorism charge facing Daniel Allen, the HIV-positive man at the center of this Michigan case. The pressure that Change.org members put on this case, by pushing for the local District Attorney to drop the bioterrorism charges, did not go unnoticed, and was mentioned in court documents as one of the leading national outlets speaking out against efforts to criminalize HIV. Thank you to all who signed this petition. For more on this case, click here.
Thanks to the swift action of over a thousand Change.org members, the three jailed journalists have been released. This a major victory for freedom of the press in Cote d'Ivoire and supports continuing investigations into the abuses of the cocoa industry.
Citibank Singpore was offering its cardholders a 15 percent discount at Imperial Court Shark Fin's Restaurant, which dishes out shark meat in addition to other seafood entrees. Sharks are seriously endangered, with some species' populations reduced by as much as 99 percent. More than 75 Change.org readers petitioned Citibank Singapore to stop offering cardholders discounts on shark meat. In fewer than 24 hours, the company responded and agreed to cancel the promotion. Get the full story here.
On July, 17, 2010, Gov. Pat Quinn signed H.B. 5790 into law (with Rou, a pit bull, in attendance). Many thanks to everyone who made this possible - Cook County Sheriff's Department lobbyist Rob Moon, Sheriff Tom Dart, Best Friends Animal Society and Safe Humane Chicago, as well as all the Change.org community members who added their names in support of this bill.
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