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Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, a lecturer in history and literature, spoke about the implications of California??s passage of Proposition 8 and the need for minorities who have faced discrimination to work together toward the common goal of greater equality at the Institute of Politics last night. In the aftermath of the passage of the controversial ballot initiative, which called for amending that state’s Constitution to define marriage as a union between two individuals of the opposite sex, McCarthy talked about the importance of extending Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) activism...
...with the encouragement of the Israeli government, allows electric car users access to charging stations and battery swap locations powered by renewable energy for a fee. The company’s model has been implemented in Israel and Denmark, and plans have been made to introduce the infrastructure to California??s Bay Area and Hawaii...
...Proposition 8 rally was his first protest. “In Singapore it is illegal to protest,” Teo said. “Gay rights are completely under the radar.” Other international students said they had seen the United States—and particularly California??as a beacon of change. “A lot of changes originate here,” said Ioannis Kalogirou Valtis ’12, from Greece. “If it doesn’t start here, where will it?” Although the rally focused...
...biggest victory came in California, where 63 percent of voters passed into law Proposition Two, which effectively bans the caged confinement of veal calves, gestating pigs, and egg-laying hens. California??s hens will be the most immediate beneficiaries of the ban—20 million of them will be released from their crammed battery cages by 2015, when the law comes into effect. But long term, the effects could go national: After Arizona’s voters passed a similar ban in 2006, Smithfield Foods—one of the nation’s largest pork producers?...
...achieve real change. In the past, animal-abusing industries have relied on lobbyists to keep effective regulation at bay—with the result that no federal law exists to ensure humane standards on America’s farms. When animal advocates brought a bill to California??s State Assembly similar to Proposition Two, it never left the Agriculture Committee...