Today, 1 in 5 kids in America struggles with hunger.

It's more important than ever to protect federal nutrition programs that feed our nation's children, but right now the sequester - which automatically cuts funding for a large number of federally funded programs - includes devastating cuts to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), cutting 600,000 mothers and kids from the program altogether.

Sequestration also cuts billions from education funding, including Head Start programming that provides preschool aged kids with important health and nutrition services. More than 70,000 kids would lose access to Head Start under the plan.

Congress faces serious fiscal challenges, but cuts of this scale to WIC and early childhood education are short-sighted and will only lead to more children and families going hungry this year.

Take action today: Tell Congress not to balance the budget on the backs of children who need us.

We think that people should prevent the Giant Pandas from extinction. People are cutting down bamboos and bamboos take a long time to grow so the Pandas don't have enough food to eat. Pandas need a lot of food they eat for 12 hours. A lot of people poach Pandas for their fur but poaching Pandas is illegal but people still do it.

We think that people should prevent the Giant Pandas from extinction. People are cutting down bamboos and bamboos take a long time to grow so the Pandas don't have enough food to eat. Pandas need a lot of food they eat for 12 hours. A lot of people poach Pandas for their fur but poaching Pandas is illegal but people still do it.

We think that people should prevent the Giant Pandas from extinction. People are cutting down bamboos and bamboos take a long time to grow so the Pandas don't have enough food to eat. Pandas need a lot of food they eat for 12 hours. A lot of people poach Pandas for their fur but poaching Pandas is illegal but people still do it. (This is made by Kids "Mission Pandas")

An undercover video of the Laverton knackery in Melbourne which supplies food for zoo animals captured footage of former racehorses being dragged across concrete by a rope tied to one leg. A portion of the graphic video can be viewed here.

Despite the evident brutality displayed at the knackery, the Australian RSPCA decided that the footage was insufficient to press charges, and merely issued a formal warning. According to Lisa Chalk of Animals Australia, "The cruel treatment of horses witnessed in this case is indicative of the much broader, systemic problem of the lack of monitering and regulation of domestic abattoirs and knackeries."

Racehorses deserve to be treated with dignity, not dragged through concrete as displayed in the video! Please sign the petition to urge the RSPCA to charge the knackery with animal abuse!

There are elements of this related to VAWA funding, to ENDA, PayCheck Fairness Act, Sequestration, the Budget, Voting Rights Act, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP (food stamps), Head Start, Special Education, Cancer and Diabetes and Altzheimers Research plus more and many things happening on the State level right now--opportunities abound!

Many political initiatives designed to strip segments of society of their rights and/or to make them less equal have emerged in Congress and State legislatures in recent years.  Some of them came from ALEC.  Targets include the poor, students, workers, minorities and the elderly (changes to voting rights), women (equal pay, discrimination protections, access to preventative care, contraception and abortion), LGBTQ (spousal benefits, adoption, marriage) and undocumented immigrants (AZ and AL, etc.).  Some have been proven unconstitutional by the reportedly most conservative SCOTUS in history; others are still working their way through the courts at taxpayer expense.