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  • Greens, Forward! To New Orleans!
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I’m challenging my party, the Green Party, to come down here and help us just as soon as things are a little more organized. The Republicans and Democrats didn’t do anything to prevent this or plan for it and don’t seem to care if everyone dies.
    by Malik Rahim
    Malik Rahim, a veteran of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans, for decades an organizer of public housing tenants both there and in San Francisco and a recent Green Party candidate for New Orleans City Council, lives in the (…)

  • Sweatshop on wheels. Health risks and low wages push bike couriers to join nation-wide union drive
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JOE HENDRY
    For bike couriers, navigating the smog-filled concrete corridors of downtown T.O. is no easy ride. The hours are long, the pay is low, and the sweaty working conditions can literally be hazardous to your health.
    Tired of riding on the beaten path and after what they describe as years of government neglect of their health and safety concerns, smog chief among them, Toronto’s 500-plus bike messengers are talking about joining thousands of others across the country in a (…)

  • Hurricanes and this Thing Called Humanity, by Manuel Valenzuela
    1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Great article, quite relevant today. Just replace the word hurricane for tsunami)
    www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    From the Oceans, Indiscriminate Devastation
    As if to burst the bubble of human grandeur, infallibility and perceived omnipotence, Earth has once again thundered powerful vibrations onto her once pristine surface, in a sudden instant of horrific oceanic energy killing hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings and laying waste to vast coastlines throughout Asiatic (…)

  • Super-Sized Apocalypse vs. American Excess
    1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Super-Size Your Apocalypse with Bacon & Cheese Why Excessive Lifestyles will Lead to Even Greater Devastation
    BZ. Bywydd (GNN)
    We have finally reached a crisis of "climate change" in America which most of the world has already suffered— environmental devastation on a scale which lays bare our vulnerable existence on an unforgiving ocean planet.
    At the same time researchers are identifying the worst of all global warming gases: cow farts. Not just flatulence, but the outgassing of (…)

  • How Bush’s policies doomed New Orleans
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us. Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004
    Over the last coupla days there has been some wailing and gnashing of (…)

  • Niger: Reasons for a Disaster
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nathalie Funès
    "The world was deaf."
    A month after the G-8 conference that promoted aid to Africa to first priority ranking, children are dying of hunger in a country cited as an example for its democratic efforts. As of October 2004, the catastrophe was foreseeable. But in the face of the emergency, rich countries, NGOs, and local authorities have competed in impotence.
    The livestock eat too much sand. There aren’t enough roots, stems, leaves. Every morning, 38-year-old Harouna (…)

  • Unborn US babies soaked in chemicals
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Unborn US babies are soaking in a stew of chemicals, including mercury, petrol by-products and pesticides, according to a report released today.
    Although the effects on the babies are not clear, the survey prompted several members of US Congress to press for legislation that would strengthen controls on chemicals in the environment.
    The report by the Environmental Working Group is based on tests of 10 samples of umbilical cord blood taken by the American Red Cross.
    They found an (…)

  • Meeting of the Rainbow Warriors
    10 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.greenpeace.org.au/ Music video featuring Michael Franti and Spearhead’s "Bomb the World" with images of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. Real Player Rainbow Warrior Anniversary Video News Piece This is a four minute news feature on the nuclear threat and the significance of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by French agents in 1985. It features interviews with former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, Guardian journalist Paul Brown, and Greenpeace Executive Director Gerd (…)

  • Bush seeks expansion of fish farms as far as 200 miles offshore
    9 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Calling fish farming a potential boon for consumers and the economy, the Bush administration yesterday proposed to massively expand the practice to waters as far as 200 miles offshore.
    Supporters in Washington, including a state senator who advocates for fish farmers, urged Congress to bless the idea. They said a likely result — if fish-culturing methods can be perfected — would be a cheap source of ocean-grown delights, such as black cod, in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
    Critics answered (…)

  • Education for responsible global resource management without Money is the Key to Peace
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    One thing is clear. Money is POWER. And for the richest entities in the world which is the conglomirate of multinational corporations MONEY IS THEIR ONLY POWER. If you design a social system without money corporations and the oligarchy of class domination will never exist on earth again. Freedom will actually exist. And Peace will be a reality. How is this so?
    I can tell you that more protests, arrests, and mass harasment is now going on and will increase more than any other time in (…)