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Christmas lights and displays from the Pleasanton, Dublin, Danville, Alameda County, San Ramon, Livermore, Tracy, Lathrop, Fremont, Alamo, Stockton, Manteca and Tri-Valley area.

A Christmas light show located in Wendell, North Carolina.

Multiple webcams and X10 technology allows Internet surfers to view/control the display. Raises awareness and accepts donations for Celiac Disease.

Features short jokes, stories and carols.

Shows how Christmas carols run through the Altavista Babelfish translator get mangled.

Computer people with Santa hats and gifts, candles, street lights, and other images.

Lyrics to about 100 Christmas carols and seasonal songs in basic text format for easy downloading.

Economic, environmental, social and religious reasons to not celebrate Christmas and a suggestion to celebrate the Winter Solstice instead.

Loosely organized event encouraging not shopping at all on the day after Thanksgiving, the "first day of the Christmas shopping season."

Traditions from many countries and regions. The list is in alphabetical order.

Preschool teacher shares egg dyeing techniques for preschool or elementary science classes.

About 20 simple songs and fingerplays suitable for young children.

Art activities, songs, and snack ideas for the Fourth.

Halloween art, recipes, songs and other ideas for preschool and childcare teachers.

Teachers find a cross-curricular thematic unit of lesson plans and online supplemental resources for celebrating Halloween with K-12 students.

Vampire basics, instant aging, witch tips. Also tips for blood and gore, scars and sores, facial hair.

Guide to pumpkins and pumpkin images.

Directory of real haunted places, ghost tours, and special events throughout the United States.

A guide to Bible stories and quotes about traditional Halloween themes. Includes links to literary stories and to Christian and secular websites.

Traces Halloween back to the ancient religion of the Celtics and labels it a Satanic holiday.

National organization advocating for and providing comprehensive information on reproductive rights in the U.S. Numerous local affiliates.

Coalition of more than 40 denominations and faith groups educates and promotes issues of reproductive choice. Includes information on religious views in support of abortion rights.

National organization advocating access to sexual and reproductive health services, education, abortion and contraception; formerly Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada. Information resources, news, other prochoice links.

A pro-women, pro-Chioce organization in Kansas promoting candidates who believe in reproductive freedom and defeat any harmful legislation that would potentially turn back the clock on women's rights.

Contains links, news articles, action alerts, and reports on the FMF's National Clinic Violence Survey.

Works to ensure California low-income women are informed and supported to make the right reproductive choice through direct services, advocacy and community education, and combatting disinformation.

The National Organization for Women has a list of pro-choice resources, a list of their pro-choice activities, and a list of pro-choice activities that individuals can participate in.

Robert Bork expresses concern with the current protected status of abortion, as well as the broader cultural implications of such acceptance.

Presbyterian pro-life organization.

To inform, educate, counsel and assist people concerned about threats to life through legal, medical, scientific, social, political and economic policies and practices.

Offers news, policies, commentaries, testimonies, and a forum.

An effort to make the public aware of the effects they say abortion brings to women, men, and their families.

Posts Catholic anti-abortion messages by renting space with outdoor advertising companies.

Bi-yearly newsletter. From Compassion Over Killing (COK). Washington DC, US.

Promoting the use of alternatives to animals in biomedical research product safety testing, and education. Mission, history, achievements, staff, sponsors, programs, publications, issues and links. Maryland, US.

A forum for discussion on issues in farming, research, and especially in veterinary medicine. Moderated by a pro-animal-rights DVM.

A place for pet owners and animal lovers of all kinds. May login as guest. Delphi.

A forum dedicated to the discussion and debate of animal issues, animal related issues, ecology and the environment.

Lists of invalid arguments for the factory farming industry and the (abstaining of) eating of meat.

A unique presentation of primary and secondary resources found in the collections of Canada's National History Society, HBCA - Archives of Manitoba, The Manitoba Museum, Parks Canada and several First Nations communities.

International charity and alliance of animal welfare organisations. Includes education and awareness campaigns to raise the standards of animal welfare throughout the world.

Includes useful links and resources about great apes as well as monkeys.

Online weblog about animal advocacy, action alerts, petitions, newsletters, and recipes.

Provides news animal rights and the environment including links and blogs to other sites that wish to make a difference in the world.

Discusses animal rights issues in Australian society and how they can be addressed through politics and legislation.

Frank R. Ascione, Ph.D. Research of the relation between cruelty to animals and violence to humans. He specifically excludes legal hunting and certain agricultural and veterinary practices as having any connection.

Online resource center dedicated to the campaign of banning the use of animals in circuses. USA.

Legislation as to the requirements of battery cages for laying hens. Hansard.

Photographs of slaughterhouse processes and slaughterhouse workers, by Gail Eisnitz. [WARNING - Disturbing imagery.]

Details of a case involving an eight year old Chow Chow who has been detained on Death Row in Ann Arbor, Michigan.