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Targeted phone calls requested to Marriott executives to cancel their contract with American College of Toxicology Annual Meeting

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Call for Action Against the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel for Hosting ACT Vivisection Conference

Defending Animal Rights Today & Tomorrow (DARTT) urges those who want to take a stand against animal exploitation and vivisection to call the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel and protest their decision to host the American College of Toxicology 31st Annual Meeting. This meeting brings together representatives from all of the major corporations and governmental agencies responsible for the continuation and execution of cruel and unjustifiable use of animals for “research”.

Companies sponsoring, speaking and exhibiting include: Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), Covance Laboratories, Charles River Laboratories, BioReliance , Genentech, Bayer, Merck, Sanofi-Aventis, Abbott Labs, and many more.

We are asking you to take a stand against vivisection today!

struggling without union support

The labor row at Philippine Airlines (PAL) flares up once more at the start of the airline peak season with its workers starting today a series of protest actions against the recent decision of Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz to allow the mass layoff of some 3,000 workers. At 10:00 a.m. today dozens of members of the Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA), the ground crew union at PAL, held a symbolic protest at the main office of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Intramuros, Manila.

It is requested that the government of The Hellenic Republic should comply with peremptory norms of International Law--in accordance with the European Union's Regulations and Directives, and the Statement by the Head of the Office of The United Nations High Commission for the Refugees in Greece--and grant asylum to the Iranian hunger strikers, who have already manifested alarming symptoms due to their prolonged hunger strike.

Broder flacks for power

Noted insider bashes destructive Fed policy