Hayley Holroyd is the founder of P.M.Art, an organic, fair-trade, cruelty-free company that sells beautifully created graphic t-shirts that promote Napoleon Hill’s “Positive Mental Attitude.” The company also donates 10% of its profits to charities and is based in Vancouver, Canada. In early 2011, Hayley was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a type of cancer. During [...]
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Animal welfare groups are on a mission to phase out the use of gestation crates by pork producers, and they’re doing it by pressuring distributers to insist that their suppliers make the change. Gestation crates, also referred to as sow stalls, are small cages used in factory farms to confine female breeding pigs called sows. [...]
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Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy sparked controversy with an interview last week in the Baptist Press, which asserted the company’s anti-gay marriage stance. It was stated that the beliefs of the Atlanta-based, family-owned, private company do not affect customer or employee affairs—save for the fact that the chain traditionally does not operate on Sundays. Chick-fil-A also [...]
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Kylar Broadus, a transgender activist, has become the first openly transgendered person to testify to the Senate. Broadus expressed to the Senate his distress having been employed in a place where he was not allowed to be open about his trans status, being repeatedly reprimanded over using his chosen name, or dressing “as himself.” He [...]
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Female doctors and scientists are paid much less than their male counterparts according to new research completed at the University of Michigan Health System and Duke University. The findings have appeared in the latest Journal of the American Medical Association. The researchers took into account factors such as age, medical specialties, academic titles, work hours, [...]
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New York State Assembly Democrats have passed a bill to raise the minimum wage from the current federal level of $7.25 to $8.50. Governor Andrew Cuomo has controversially stated raising the minimum wage in New York will be harder than passing marriage equality, as he thinks it will be stuck at this point in the [...]
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The media world today is focused on the discount retailer Walmart for admitting that company managers used bribery to expand the presence and market share of the store in Mexico. Vice president of corporate communications David Tovar stated that ”we don’t have a full explanation of what happened,” but the investigative work is on-going. The admission [...]
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The on-demand, video rental giant, Netflix, has created its own super PAC called FLIXPAC to financially support politicians to push controversial bills like SOPA and PIPA through the United States Congress. The recent formation of FLIXPAC comes after news of a new SOPA-like bill, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011, also known [...]
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Exclusive Goddess™ is an eco-friendly jewelry company based out of Virginia that produces fair trade accessories for the environmentally-conscious consumer. The company strives to use renewable resources in order to limit its impact on the environment. A list of “eco-materials” is provided for prospective buyers to learn more about the plants, seeds, and nuts that [...]
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Earlier this week Nicholas Kristof, an op-ed columnist for the New York Times and a prominent voice in the growing international chorus against the sex trafficking of young girls, revealed a financial link between Goldman Sachs and Backpage.com, a site Kristof terms “the biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States.” [...]
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