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Why Can We Not Do Something About Poverty?
Kabul street childrenWorld poverty ‘more widespread’By Steve Schifferes / August 27, 2008 Tackling global poverty requires both public and private investment The World Bank has warned that world poverty is much greater than previously thought. It has revised its previous … Continue reading
Thursday Thought: The USA Today
Thanks to Diane Stirling-Stevens | The Rag Blog | Posted August 28, 2008
Denver : Iraq Veterans March Against the Machine
Vets/Rage Against the Machine march in Denver Wednesday.Rage Against the Machine fans join vets in rousing Denver protestBy Carl Davidson / August 28, 2008 I start the day early loading leaflets and joining Leslie Cagan, Judith LeBlanc and five other … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-War Vets, Democratic Convention, Denver, Direct Action, Iraq Veterans, IVAW, Peace Movement, Rock 'n Roll, Social Action, Veterans
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U.N. Finds U.S. Airstrike Killed 90 Afghans
An Afghan doctor, left, examines Zinat Gul’s wounded hand, who allegedly was wounded by a U.S. air strike in Shindand district, as her mother looks on at a hospital in Herat, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. Photo by Fraidoon … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Civilian Fatalities, Counterinsurgency, U.S. Military, United Nations, War Crimes
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Free Gaza Boats Returning to Cyprus
Gaza activists to return to Cyprus with Palestinian studentsBy Stefanos Evripidou / August 28, 2008 THE TWO ‘Free Gaza’ boats will set sail from Gaza today for Cyprus after successfully breaking the Israeli sea blockade of the Strip last Saturday. … Continue reading
Angola : Slavery Haunts America’s Plantation Prisons
Prisoners picking cotton at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. Photo by William Albert Allard / National Geographic.‘It’s not even really a metaphor for slavery. Slavery is what’s going on’By Maya Schenwar / August 28, 2008 On an expanse of 18,000 … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Angola, Human Rights, Involuntary Servitude, Louisiana, Prisons, Slavery, Texas
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Montana Governor Brian Schweizer Blasts Bush and His Petro-Dictators
Governor Brian Schweizer See video below. Schweitzer electrifies convention with energy speechBy Josh Dorner / August 27, 2008 While most of the excitement last night was focused on Senator Clinton’s speech, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer gave an electrifying (and highly … Continue reading
Bush Remains Arrogant and Defiant
Joshua Bolten (center) with a couple of other White House criminalsBush steps up fight over congressional authorityBy Matt Apuzzo / August 28, 2008 WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is raising the stakes in a court fight that could change the … Continue reading
Global Warming: We’re Not 100% Doomed
‘Almost all political conflict, especially in the US, boils down to a fight between the Sane Billionaires and the Insane Billionaires’By Jonathan Schwarz I believe human civilization will likely — despite current appearances — manage to mitigate global warming and … Continue reading
Remember the Bees? EPA Is Hiding Something
EPA is Hiding Colony Collapse Disorder InformationAugust 18, 2008 NRDC Forced to Sue to Get Public Records on Bee Mystery WASHINGTON — The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today to uncover critical information that the US government is … Continue reading
Just Like Nazi Germany
See video below. Longstanding Berkeley Community Center Raided by FBIAugust 27, 2008 More than a dozen computers seized in questionable search BERKELEY, CA — At 10:30 am on Wednesday, August 27th, the UC Berkeley police, plainclothes FBI agents, and an … Continue reading
Del Martin, Eloquent Voice of Gay and Lesbian Movement, Dead at 87
Del Martin, left, places a ring on her partner Phyllis Lyon during their June wedding ceremony officiated by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP.‘As a journalist, author and organizer, Martin helped shape the modern … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Deaths, Feminism, Gay Marriage, Gay Movement, Lesbians, Sexism, Social Action
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