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The Struggle for the Commons "The commons is an old value that’s resurfacing as a fresh approach to twenty-first-century crises such as escalating economic inequality, looming ecological disruption and worsening social alienation. In essence, the commons means everything that belongs to all of us, and the many ways we work together to use these assets to build a better society."...
Posted: Sat, Oct 15, 2011 7:27am PDT
OWS Enters its Second Month 
Across the street from Ground Zero is a space lined with trees, beds of flowers, a few statues and park benches. Until recently Zuccotti Park was the main area of congregation for Wall Street workers during their lunch hour. Not anymore....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2011 1:09pm PDT
Urgent News Bulletin: Pedro Leyva killed in Xayakalan, Ostula This is the first person from Santa María Ostula who has been killed in the community of Xayakalan, recovered on June 29, 2009...
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 7:55am PDT
Governor Brown Signs Bill Putting A End To Insurance Company Cost Shifting 
Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones Applauds Governor for Signing Bill that Voids Discretionary Clauses in Life and Disability Insurance...
Posted: Mon, Oct 3, 2011 4:00pm PDT
From Lab to Plate: A Primer on GE Food “Through glitzy advertising campaigns and scientists whose research is paid for by the industry, agribusiness and biotechnology companies try to persuade consumers that genetic engineering is the only hope for feeding a growing population, which is completely untrue,” said Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch....
Posted: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 7:37am PDT
Water Fluoridation Injury Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court A 13-year-old's fluoride-discolored teeth was allegedly caused by drinking fluoridated bottled water since infancy. Her Mom is suing the bottlers for the cost to cover up the unsightly teeth....
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2011 1:38pm PDT
PHILIPPINES: High price of electricity is anti-women, anti-poor 
MANILA, Philippines – In a society where women are mostly in-charge of managing the household budget, higher electricity rates mean additional burdens and deeper indebtedness for Filipino women, especially those who already find it hard to make ends meet....
Posted: Sun, Sep 11, 2011 6:19am PDT
Commissioner Urges Governor to sign SB 621 
Insurance Commissioner Jones Announces Passage of Bill to Prohibit Insurers from Overriding a Physician's Opinion and Deny Disability Coverage...
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2011 5:28am PDT
Report on Vermont's Single Payer Movement (audio/mpeg 45.0MB) Don Bechler, organizer for Single Payer Now, speaks on recent developments in Vermont's Single Payer Healthcare intiative, after a recent trip to Vermont working with some of the movement organizations. He focuses on the develpments in the Vermont and California political movements. (24 minutes)...
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2011 6:57pm PDT
800,000 Americans kicked out of their homes by bankers and speculators* The FHA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are asking for suggestions on how to solve the problem of too many empty homes. There's an e mail in this article to send them your suggestion, like putting people in them for example....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2011 8:30pm PDT
Obama's Budget Deal: Neoliberal March in the US What should be the state's role in the future? What values and priorities should be set in a time when public resources become scarcer under the pressure of state indebtedness?
Less state, less support for the unemployed, poor and sick occurs along with a free ride for billionaires and big corporations. As in the Euro-zone, an intensified neoliberal approach is also applied in the US under the mantle of "austerity policy."...
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2011 6:41am PDT
The Great Health Care Takeaway The health care crisis in the United States is getting worse with no visible end. The popular anger over unattainable or unaffordable health care has been diverted away from corporations by crafty politicians, always seeking to exploit a social disaster for their benefactors. Instead of making health care more affordable for the average person, politicians have successfully switched the messaging. Now, the purpose behind "reform" is to make health care less costly for governments and employer...
Posted: Tue, Aug 30, 2011 1:04pm PDT
Drugs and Profits - Welcome to America's Health Industry Pharmaceutical Companies Place Profits Before Health Care Needs...
Posted: Sun, Aug 21, 2011 1:08pm PDT
Life Support for the Insurance Companies Most Americans pay more for health care than for housing or food – especially those unfortunate enough to ever get sick. The largest block of those expenses go to insurance companies, which dole out significant portions of their income to doctors and pharmaceutical companies. The greatest profits, however, go to these non-medical “regulators” of America’s health industry....
Posted: Thu, Aug 18, 2011 4:28pm PDT
Iatrogenic Incidents, Pricegouging, Drugpushing, Animal Torture at Cleveland Clinic see below...
Posted: Mon, Aug 15, 2011 5:17pm PDT
Why Do Vegetarians, Vegans, and Fruitarians Have Superior Brain Function? The food given freely by trees, vines, berry bushes and fruit bearing
plants is nature's most perfect....
Posted: Tue, Aug 9, 2011 8:46pm PDT
Is America Broke? Today we are seeing that government is not an abstraction. Rather, its services are a basic expression of the common good. They are things that affect the daily lives of most Americans.
As they are eliminated, we are being forced into an unpleasant realization: we are the ones being strangled in the tub. The beast being starved is us....
Posted: Mon, Aug 8, 2011 4:23pm PDT
Cancer Epidemic, Rodeo And The Kaiser Healthcare Plan 
An epidemic of cancer has been taking place in Rodeo, California and is being covered up the the Kaiser healthcare system and the oil companies such as Conoco. Cancer patient Trina Coy talks about her struggle to save her life and what caused her cancer...
Posted: Sun, Aug 7, 2011 8:59am PDT
Update on Criminal Silence By Cargill, Federal and State Agencies re Diseased Animal Flesh Cargill is in 67 countries.
Cargill Macmillan is the 42nd richest (of those whose money is public)
American with 4.7 billion dollars of blood money from
having bulldozed Brazilian rainforest, poisoned Iraqis with methylmercury, profiteered from child labor in
Uzbekistan, hired illegal immigrants for slaughterhouses in Colorado, Wisconsin,
Arkansas, supplied diseased eggs to McDonald's, etc.
http://www.forbes.com/profile/cargill-macmillan...
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2011 12:10pm PDT
Grover Norquist and his ice cream cone "The anti-government activist Grover Norquist has told a similar story from childhood, in which his father would steal bites of his ice cream cone, labelling each bite "sales tax" or "income tax." The psychological link between a certain form of childhood deprivation and extreme libertarianism awaits serious study."...
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 10:57am PDT
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