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The Childcare Collective and Social Movement
	Slingshot has published an article that takes a personal look at the relationship between childcare and social movements. The author, writing under the name paseo, highlights the work of the Bay Area Childcare Collective and makes a solid case for the power of real "family values" in the context of social change work. Posted: 2/13/05; 5:56:00 PM #

U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Findings

A lot of nonprofit advocacy work is based on science. We aspire to advocate for programs that actually work and where that is supported by real research among professionals who have something at stake for doing honest science. Nowhere is this more true than in the environmental movement. It is therefore deeply disturbing to read about how scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have been told to alter their findings. Not just a handful, either, although that would be scandal enough. One out of five of the government scientists responding to a survey on the matter said they had been ordered to alter technical information and more than half had been ordered to alter their scientific findings. Posted: 2/13/05; 5:45:53 PM #