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Often marked as “safe and gentle”, children’s bath products are found to be anything but by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. This nonprofit coalition of environmental groups is the first to document the widespread contamination of children’s products with two known carcinogens: Formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane. None of the products tested by the coalition …

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In a practice known as guerrilla gardening, groups of environmentalists, armed with seed bombs, seek out neglected plots of land in urban sprawl areas, and transform them into green spaces. Operating in a legally gray area, this form of environmental activism is simple and provocative. In recent years, guerrilla gardening has become a worldwide phenomenon …

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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on the Economic N-word.

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The Butler Act

Back in the day on March 13th, 1925 the Tennessee State Legislature passed the Butler Act into law. Authored by John Washington Butler, a Tennessee farmer, the first section of the statute provided that it be unlawful for any teacher in a publicly funded educational institution to teach any scientific theory that invalidated …

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“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” — Chief Seattle, 1855 …

We’ll look to the upcoming Presidential elections in El Salvador that could sweep the leftist FMLN party into power for the first time. And, we’ll hear about a new report called Toxic Tub: Contaminants in Children’s Bath and Personal Care Products. Plus this week’s Black Agenda Report. …

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.” — Mark Twain …

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President Obama met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon earlier this week to discuss the global food crisis and the “potential threat” to food supplies if the economic crisis worsens. Last year there was much discussion about escalating food prices that left millions more people hungry. Now, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay warned of the perverse effect of …

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Gandhi’s Salt March

Back in the day on March 12th, 1930 Mahatma Gandhi and seventy-eight satyagrahis embarked on the Salt March for India’s independence. Before the march, in a letter to Viceroy Irwin, Gandhi called the British rule of his country a “curse,” and criticized the colonial monopoly of the sale and production of salt. In …

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With 25,000 people dying of hunger each day we’ll hear a brand new speech by world-renowned environmental activist, writer and physicist, Vandana Shiva, who recently spoke at USC about the Global Food Crisis. …