Dec 02 2010
Dozens of bills dealing with preserving wilderness in the US may be drawn into a single Omnibus bill to be taken up by the current Congress during their last month in office. Among them are proposals to preserve 2 million acres of federal lands as wilderness. Four of the bills relate to California, with the biggest one …
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Dec 02 2010
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on American Racism Exposed by WikiLeaks.
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Dec 02 2010
“We are realizing that conservation is not about managing wildlife as much as it is about managing ourselves – our appetites, expectations, fears, our fundamental avariciousness. If we do not succeed at that, other forces assuredly will. Judging by the pain already caused by climate change and biodiversity loss – flood, famine, fissures – those forces will not be kind.” — Caroline Fraser …
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Dec 01 2010
We’ll speak with Nobel Laureate and former World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz about the recommendations of the President’s Deficit Commission. And, we’ll break down the new Food Safety bill just passed by the Senate. Plus, a conversation with the author of Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution. And this week’s Black Agenda Report. …
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Dec 01 2010
After weeks of demonstrations in England against tuition hikes, students have launched a third wave of continuing mass protests. The demonstrations took place in Brighton, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford and London, with students bravely defying the freezing winter weather. The mostly peaceful marches filled council buildings, stopped traffic, and in London, engaged in cat-and-mouse games with police near Parliament. …
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Dec 01 2010
The US Department of Defense has just released its study on its Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy that bars gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military. The 17 year old policy has come under attack this year and was slated to be overturned as part of the Defense Appropriations Bill but was defeated. The Dod …
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Dec 01 2010
In the final weeks of Congress’ lame duck session Democratic Senator Harry Reid and members of his party are making a strong push to pass the DREAM Act. If passed the Act would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented youth who attend high school in the US and complete two years of college or military service. …
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Dec 01 2010
The Right Hook, a weekly segment which covers the machinations of the right wing, from the Republican Party to the Tea Party Patriots, and beyond. By Chris Bennett
Sarah Palin kicked off her “America By Heart” book tour by kicking dust onto the legacies of Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush. When Fox’s Sean Hannity asked Palin …
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Dec 01 2010
“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.” — Fredrick Buechner …
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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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