Aug 02 2010
Last week Robert Dudley, the incoming CEO of BP, said it is “not too soon” to begin scaling back clean-up efforts along the Gulf Coast. It’s been just over two weeks since a temporary cap has stopped the flow of oil from BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Oil gushed into the Gulf for close to 100 days, from late …
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Aug 02 2010
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned yesterday that there is a “pause” in the economic recovery touted by Wall Street so that it feels like a “quasi-recession.” Greenspan speculated that if home prices continued to decline it would lead to what’s called a “double-dip” recession. He did acknowledge that the benefit of any economic recovery in recent months was …
Aug 02 2010
Ricky Smith grew-up working on his family’s farm in Wartrace, Tennessee. After college, he moved to California and earned an MFA in Visual Anthropology and Cinema from USC. But he didn’t leave behind his intimate knowledge of agriculture and food systems. In 2001 Smith founded the Los Angeles based company, Urban Green. Urban green is an innovative, multi-faceted company, …
Aug 02 2010
“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” — Jane Addams
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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