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UK: Two Arrested at Cambridge GM potato picnic 
Syndicated Content From UK Indymedia...
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 8:35am PDT
7/6: Radio Program about International Permaculture Conference 8 & 9 Radio Interview about IPC8 & 9,Live on Friday July 6, 2007, 9am-10am PST, also streaming live at www.kcsb.org, Santa Barbara California USA (International Permaculture Conference & Convergence)...
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 6:56pm PDT
Join the world's biggest party with MoveOn and Ella Baker Center! The Ella Baker Center is thrilled to team up with MoveOn.org, Campaign for America's
Future, and the League of Conservation Voters to co-sponsor Party for the Planet --
a chance for you to have fun with friends and neighbors while discussing the best
ways to solve the climate crisis....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 6:41pm PDT
St. Clair / Frank: Obama's Nuclear Ambitions Wednesday, July 4, 2007 :It is fast becoming one of the most important issues of the 2008 presidential campaign. Oil prices are expected to rise to even higher levels as the United States dependence on foreign crude is becoming increasingly unstable. And the perceived threat of global warming is making even the most skeptical of politicians nervous....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 1:34pm PDT
Toxic Workplaces: Bush’s Labor Dept. Ordered to Release Info Tuesday, July 3, 2007 : The Bush Administration's Department of Labor has been ordered by a federal court in New Jersey to release the results of years of workplace sampling for toxic substances, including the cancer-causing metal beryllium. The order came from U.S. District Judge Mary Cooper in a ruling last week on a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Adam Finkel, who served as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) chief regulator and as a regional administrato...
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 11:42pm PDT
Around the Globe, Farmers Losing Ground Saturday, June 30, 2007 : WASHINGTON, Jun 27 (IPS) – In 1938, Walter Lowdermilk, a senior official in the Soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, traveled abroad to look at lands that had been cultivated for thousands of years, seeking to learn how these older civilisations had coped with soil erosion....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 6:03pm PDT
Nearly Two Years After Katrina, Gulf Coast Residents Fighting Environmental Neglect, Privatization Friday, June 29, 2007 :
Twenty two months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf region of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, residents are still fighting to save their communities. We speak with Monique Harden, co-director of the New Orleans-based Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, and organizer of a caravan of Katrina activists to the U.S. Social Forum this week....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 8:01am PDT
Former EPA head defends US government lies about post-9/11 safety conditions Thursday, June 28, 2007 :Christine Todd Whitman, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, told a Congressional panel on Monday that she stood by the claims that she made shortly after that the attack that the area’s “air was safe to breathe.”...
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 10:32pm PDT
White Whale forces Military Retreat in US-Australian War Games 
Migaloo, the white humpback whale, is forcing the USA and Australian military forces to reconsider using the Great Barrier reef for war games. The USA and Australian Defence forces have faced down a civil disobedience peace campaign against their Talisman Sabre War Games, from June 19 to July 2, at Shoalwater Bay near Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 9:43am PDT
NYC Residents & Workers Accuse Whitman & Bush Administration of Covering Up Dangers of Toxic Air After 9/11 Tuesday, June 26, 2007 :
On Monday, two busloads of Ground Zero workers and residents traveled to Washington to hear Christine Todd Whitman's testimony. We hear from two members of the group Beyond Ground Zero, environmental attorney Joel Kupferman and Democracy Now co-host Juan Gonzalez who attended Monday's hearing....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:34am PDT
Socially Disadvantaged Farmers United to Change U.S. Food and Farm Policy 
2007 U.S. Food and Farm Policy can help California Black Farmers achieve basic access and equal opportunity. Nationwide there is a current of activity to mandate equal opportunity for socially disadvantaged farmers from California to Maine. Unique artificial barriers to equal access create the current U.S. Farm Bill policy that restricts minority participation with tax payer supported USDA administrative allocation. Minority farmers whom are primarily socially disadvantaged in most areas o...
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 10:12pm PDT
Skating against traffic through the streets of Manhattan 
Skateboarding's Critical Mass (Sort of)
1200 skateboarders celebrated Go Skateboarding Day last week.
By Alex Nathanson
The past Thursday, June 21, 1200 skateboarders came out to celebrate and promote skateboarding....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 5:34pm PDT
No Love for Golddiggers 
From the uselessness of the final
product to the dramatic environmental and social impacts of its excavation,
modern-day gold mining serves as an
absurd illustration of the dangers and
complexity of our global economy....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 3:55pm PDT
Vietnamese Delegation in U.S. to Sue Chemical Companies for Ongoing Effects of Agent Orange Friday, June 22, 2007 :
U.S. warplanes dumped about 18 million gallons of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese government says this has left more than 3 million people disabled.
We speak with two Vietnamese Agent Orange victims and their lawyers about how the toxin has affected their lives, and why they’re suing over three dozen U.S. chemical companies for manufacturing the toxin....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 8:39am PDT
MGA TAGUMPAY NG KILUSANG MAGSASAKA SA PILIPINAS, SUMUSULONG ulat ngayon ng revolusyonaryong kilusan sa Pilipinas ang patuloy na pagsulong ng pakikibakang magsasaka at rebolusyong agraryo sa iba’t ibang bahagi ng Pili[inas.
Ayon sa sulat na sinipi sa internet, sa kabila ng panggigipit at pandarahas ng reaksyunaryong estado, tuluy-tuloy na umaani ng mga tagumpay sa mga pakikibaka nitong nagdaang 20 taon ang masang magbubukid sa bansa....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 5:43pm PDT
Santa Cruzans Needed For Urgent Oaxaca Solidarity Action 
This is a call out to the Oaxaca solidarity network, forest defenders and all other allies in Santa Cruz, Watzlan and the Bay Area. Our indigenous friends with the Consejo Indigena Popular de Oaxaca urgently need our support now in their defense of native forests, their traditional way of life and for their water rights....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 10:21pm PDT
White House Official Grilled on Alleged Censorship of Post-9/11 Contamination Risks Thursday, June 21, 2007 :
A new congressional study has revealed the Environmental Protection Agency misled Lower Manhattan residents about levels of indoor air contamination after 9/11. The report was released during a Senate hearing Wednesday on the EPA's response after the collapse of the World Trade Center. James Connaughton, the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, was questioned about whether the Bush administration manipulated public information about the healt...
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 10:44am PDT
Interview with Dr. Michael Gros, a victim of water contamination at US Marine base Wednesday, June 20, 2007 :For more than 30 years, residents of Camp Lejeune, a US Marine Corps base in North Carolina, were exposed to contaminated water. From 1957 to 1987, Marines/Naval personnel, family members and civilians drank and used water containing toxic levels of industrial solvents, although the military knew in late 1980 or early 1981 that at least one of the base’s water treatment plants was polluted....
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2007 7:19am PDT
Liberty Quarry- A Rock Hard Sell As Granite Construction continue to pay millions to bolster their propaganda campaign, to sell Liberty Quarry, SOS has gained tremendous public support, collecting small donation and some grocery monies, to educate the public about a future industrial menace....
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2007 6:25am PDT
FDA Irridated Food comments by July 3 http://www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/sc/0706/goldie.html
FDA’s new food irradiation follies: Déjà vu again...
Posted: Mon, Jun 18, 2007 10:09am PDT
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