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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Government Secrecy : International Relations : Political-Economy : Regime |
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Bush, Cheney Attack Amnesty International |
by Jim Lobe
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02 Jun 2005
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''You really don't have to look further than the Pentagon's own reports,'' said Elisa Massimino, Washington director of Human Rights First, formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. ''There's ample substantiation of serious abuses,'' she said, adding that the administration's ''ostrich approach'' was ''dangerous. The problems are there, and they're going to continue to pose a risk to U.S. lives and policy until they're dealt with.'' |
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News :: Children : Civil & Human Rights : Environment : Protest Activity |
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Showdown in Coal Town |
by Mountain Justice Summer
mountainjusticesummer (nospam) gmail.com (unverified) |
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31 May 2005
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For the third time in one week, residents of the Coal River Valley of West Virginia and supporters from across the country met at Massey Energy's coal processing plant behind Marsh Fork Elemntary School to demand that it be shut down and cleaned up. Sixteen of the 150 participants in the Moountain Justice Summer campaign were arrested as they attempted to deliver a list of demands to the site's supervisor. Earlier in the day two campaign participants delivered the demands directly to Massey's head offices in Richmond Virginia. |
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News :: Arts : Civil & Human Rights : Economy : Globalization : Labor : Media : Political-Economy : Urban Development |
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Robert Greenwald's New Walmart Movie: Taking On a Giant (Whistleblowers Welcome) |
by David M. Halbfinger
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01 Jun 2005
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"The social values people - I think the economic issues that we're talking about absolutely are in sync with them," he said. "To me, it's an anomaly or a contradiction that some of these folks are voting against their economic self-interest. But in the Wal-Mart fight, we're seeing that whether you voted for Bush or have an N.R.A. hat, or are all your life Republican, when Wal-Mart comes to town, they build or drive you out of business, or your neighbor, or they put a road where it used to be your front yard - that's an equalizer." |
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Building Living Cities |
by William Leddy
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01 Jun 2005
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We cannot, and should not, preserve our present way of life, but we can change it and make it better. Rather than perceiving those ominous statistics as harbingers of a grim, unavoidable future, we should see them as signs of great opportunity to make our cities better places to live -- to rebuild them as "living cities" that support both people and the natural world upon which we all depend. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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The AUT Boycott: Freedom vs. 'Academic Freedom' |
by Omar Barghouti, Lisa Taraki - Z Net
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01 Jun 2005
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On May 26, the Association of University Teachers (AUT) in Britain reversed its previous decision -- taken on April 22 -- to boycott Israeli universities. Intimidation and bullying aside, no tool was as persistently used, abused and bandied about as much as the claim that academic boycott infringes on academic freedom. |
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News :: Arts |
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Free Radicals mp3: Eyebrows |
by Free Radicals
peace--at--freerads.com (unverified) |
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31 May 2005
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Gloria Edwards - vocals, Nelson Mills III - scat, Ian Varley - electric piano, Marcos Melchor - sax, Chris Anderson - guitar, Theo Bijarro - bass, Nick Cooper - drums |
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News :: Agriculture |
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You are the Lab Rat for Monsanto's GMO corn |
by Organic Consumers Association
organic (nospam) organicconsumers.org (unverified) |
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31 May 2005
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A recent study shows "harmful health impacts on lab rats that were fed Monsantoā€™s root worm resistant corn (Mon 863), now grown and sold in the US." The London Independent reports that "secret research carried out by Monsanto shows that rats fed the modified corn had smaller kidneys and variations in the composition of their blood.ā€¯ |
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