Vermont Becomes First to Have Mandatory GMO Labeling Will other states dive in by 2016? -- Natural Society
by Christina Sarich
Posted on April 23, 2015
"After months of consumer and activist comments, picketing at the Attorney General’s Office, and winning a lawsuit against Monsanto who tried to overturn the original law, Vermont has just become the first state to have mandatory GMO labeling.
"Vermont became the first state to become GMO-labeled (a step toward becoming GMO-Free) in 2014, but Monsanto, Dow, Bayer and other biotech interests decided that consumers had no rights at the state level to determine what they wanted to eat. Vermont was brave enough to uphold the voted-upon law anyhow, and even put money aside for the legal fight they knew would ensue when the new legislation passed.
"On Friday, the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules formally filed with the Secretary of State’s Office to uphold the new GMO labeling rule, which will become effective July 1, 2016."
by Christina Sarich
Posted on April 23, 2015
"After months of consumer and activist comments, picketing at the Attorney General’s Office, and winning a lawsuit against Monsanto who tried to overturn the original law, Vermont has just become the first state to have mandatory GMO labeling.
"Vermont became the first state to become GMO-labeled (a step toward becoming GMO-Free) in 2014, but Monsanto, Dow, Bayer and other biotech interests decided that consumers had no rights at the state level to determine what they wanted to eat. Vermont was brave enough to uphold the voted-upon law anyhow, and even put money aside for the legal fight they knew would ensue when the new legislation passed.
"On Friday, the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules formally filed with the Secretary of State’s Office to uphold the new GMO labeling rule, which will become effective July 1, 2016."
Justice Gazette's Picture: Women's Right Protest outside Parker Center
Cops Beat Their Wives & Girlfriends At Double The National Rate, Still Receive Promotions -- Free Thought Project
"Statistics show that 1 in 4 women in the US is a victim of domestic violence, those numbers jump to 1 in 2 if they are married to a cop."
"Law Enforcement officers beat their significant other at nearly double the national average. Several studies, according to Diane Wetendorf, author of Police Domestic Violence: Handbook for Victims, indicate that women suffer domestic abuse in at least 40 percent of police officer families. For American women overall, the figure is 25 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"According to The Advocates for Human Rights Organization, studies indicate that police families are 2-4 times more likely than the general population to experience domestic violence, making the potential for disparities in protective success particularly troubling."
"Statistics show that 1 in 4 women in the US is a victim of domestic violence, those numbers jump to 1 in 2 if they are married to a cop."
"Law Enforcement officers beat their significant other at nearly double the national average. Several studies, according to Diane Wetendorf, author of Police Domestic Violence: Handbook for Victims, indicate that women suffer domestic abuse in at least 40 percent of police officer families. For American women overall, the figure is 25 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"According to The Advocates for Human Rights Organization, studies indicate that police families are 2-4 times more likely than the general population to experience domestic violence, making the potential for disparities in protective success particularly troubling."
Terminate the Parental Rights of Sexual Offenders- Change.org
"If you are raped in Maryland, your rapist has full parental rights if you get pregnant."
"For several years the Maryland Senate has tried to pass legislation to end this practice. They, like 29 other states who currently have this legislation, understand the importance of a law that would terminate a rapist’s custody and allow the victim to move on with her life. However, each time it dies in the House and fails to become law. This is unacceptable and we need to make sure the House understands the pain they are causing women who find themselves in this situation.
If a raped woman decides to give birth to a child conceived through sexual violence, her assailant shouldn’t have the legally sanctioned right to harass her with motions in court for visitation, custody, and other forms of family involvement. This is just common sense.
Join the Maryland Senate and more than a dozen state groups including women’s advocacy groups, family planning organizations and the state attorney general’s office and tell the Maryland House of Delegates the time is now to end parental rights for rapists!" Petition at site.
"If you are raped in Maryland, your rapist has full parental rights if you get pregnant."
"For several years the Maryland Senate has tried to pass legislation to end this practice. They, like 29 other states who currently have this legislation, understand the importance of a law that would terminate a rapist’s custody and allow the victim to move on with her life. However, each time it dies in the House and fails to become law. This is unacceptable and we need to make sure the House understands the pain they are causing women who find themselves in this situation.
If a raped woman decides to give birth to a child conceived through sexual violence, her assailant shouldn’t have the legally sanctioned right to harass her with motions in court for visitation, custody, and other forms of family involvement. This is just common sense.
Join the Maryland Senate and more than a dozen state groups including women’s advocacy groups, family planning organizations and the state attorney general’s office and tell the Maryland House of Delegates the time is now to end parental rights for rapists!" Petition at site.
(Newly confirmed) U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch 'led the nation' on human trafficking despite Republican standoff ---London Guardian
"Lynch – according to prosecutors, officials and victims’ advocates familiar with her tenure as US attorney for the eastern district of New York – has a prodigious history of throwing sex traffickers in prison, breaking up prostitution rings, rescuing underage victims forced to work as prostitutes and reuniting mothers held captive by the rings with their long-lost children."
"Lynch – according to prosecutors, officials and victims’ advocates familiar with her tenure as US attorney for the eastern district of New York – has a prodigious history of throwing sex traffickers in prison, breaking up prostitution rings, rescuing underage victims forced to work as prostitutes and reuniting mothers held captive by the rings with their long-lost children."