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San Diego Violates Fluoridation Law, Legal Action Taken California state law requires cities of 10,000 or more to add fluoride chemicals into its residents via the water supply but only if outside funds are available. Those outside funds have dried up in San Diego which has a local law prohibiting fluoridation. So fluoridation should cease in San Diego especially if taxpayers money is being used to continue fluoridating which is contrary to the intent of the 1995 state law....
Posted: Tue, Sep 20, 2016 4:54am PDT
Nurses Applaud Federal Move to Halt Dakota Pipeline, Call for Permanent End to Project 
National Nurses United Friday welcomed the move by the federal government to stop construction on the Dakota Access pipeline project that has been the center of protests by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and supporters. Nurses urged the government to permanently block the disputed project that nurses say is a threat to public health, as well as to the tribe’s sacred sites....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2016 11:44pm PDT
Film Screening and discussion - Shattered Families: Collapse of our Mental Health System (audio/mpeg 26.5MB) Janet Hays interviews Nicole Forston (Producer), and Laura Pogliano (mother and mental health advocate), about the new film documentary Shattered Families: Collapse of our Mental Health System. The lack of a functional mental healthcare system all too often leaves untreated seriously mentally ill people incarcerated, homeless and dead. It also takes a physical and emotional toll on caregivers who have few support options when a loved one is in mental health crisis....
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2016 8:14am PDT
US and Puerto Rico Faith Groups Send Congress Recommendations on Island's Crisis Religious leaders in Puerto Rico and Jubilee USA urged a new Congressional task force to reform US laws to promote economic growth in Puerto Rico....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2016 1:26pm PDT
New Study Links Eating Shark Fins & Meat to Alzheimer’s Disease A new study by scientists from the University of Miami has found high concentrations of toxins linked to the development of Alzheimer’s disease in the fins and muscles of 10 species of sharks....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2016 8:45am PDT
Dentists Unsure of Fluoride's Safety, FOIAs ReveaL Organized Dentistry, the CDC and others publicly pronounces fluoride as safe to ingest; but privately they aren't so sure, reveals freedom of information ( FOIA ) documents....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2016 8:42am PDT
Louisiana Floods: in their own words, stories and how to help (audio/mpeg 30.2MB) On the Louisiana Floods, personal stories from Blair, Bru, and Logan, plus an update from Elizabeth about ways to lift up your Louisiana loved ones....
Posted: Mon, Aug 22, 2016 6:08am PDT
The Unending Story of the Achievers All personal and state success depended on state investments in schools, roads, hospitals, community centers, airwaves, food safety, and water quality. The achievers' myth ignores this, Austrian researcher Bruno Rossmann explains. The neoliberal redefinition of justice from sharing and distribution justice to rewarding achievers helps justify exploding inequality and tax injustice. In the 1960s, John Kenneth Galbraith decried the public squalor alongside private opulence....
Posted: Mon, Aug 22, 2016 4:44am PDT
Citizen Reporting of Great Louisiana Flood of 2016 (audio/mpeg 41.2MB) Compiled audio of citizen vlogs detailing their experiences trying to recover after the Great Louisiana Flood of 2106....
Posted: Thu, Aug 18, 2016 8:51am PDT
No Dakota Pipeline - tribes push back against yet another threat to clean water 
The Standing Rock Sioux Nation is calling out to all indigenous nations of the world to stand in solidarity with them as they fight yet another pipeline on tribal lands....
Posted: Wed, Aug 17, 2016 2:35pm PDT
Hearing in Lawsuit Compelling USDA to Pull Foie Gras From Shelves 
LOS ANGELES, August 15, 2016 – Today the District Court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit by the Animal Legal Defense Fund—the nation’s leading legal advocacy organization for animals, concerned consumers, and a coalition of animal protection groups against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for allowing a diseased poultry product—specifically, foie gras—into the food supply....
Posted: Tue, Aug 16, 2016 6:20pm PDT
Feds’ Approval of GE Mosquito Release Doesn’t Account for Risk 
WASHINGTON, August 9th, 2016 — Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the release of genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes in the Florida Keys without a thorough review of the risks associated with such a release. This first-of–its-kind release was approved by the FDA despite widespread public outcry and a weak environmental assessment....
Posted: Thu, Aug 11, 2016 5:48pm PDT
On Short Term Rentals and City Planning Commission: Interview with Jeffrey Goodman (audio/mpeg 77.5MB) On Short Term Rentals and City Planning Commission: Matt Olsen interviews Jeffrey Goodman, urban planner. Goodman participated in teach-in sponsored by European Dissent and Jane Place in preparation for City Planning Commission open comment tomorrow, Tuesday, August 9, 2016....
Posted: Mon, Aug 8, 2016 7:43am PDT
Petition Calls on EPA to Require Pesticide Companies to Disclose Data on Chemical Mixtures 
Agency Has Approved Nearly 100 Pesticide Products Without Accounting for Dangers of Synergistic Effects...
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2016 6:23pm PDT
Sister of Navy Yard mass shooter speaks out about untreated mental illness (audio/mpeg 41.6MB) Naomi Alexis, Sister of Navy Yard mass shooter Aaron Alexis, speaks out about untreated serious mental illness.
Aaron Alexis showed symptoms of mental illness throughout his life but his illness went undiagnosed and ignored for years. The result was that he was violent toward his sisters and later became a danger to himself and others. He shot and killed 13 people including himself at a Navy Yard in Washington D.C. in the fall of 2013....
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2016 9:40am PDT
EPA Approved Pesticide Products Without Accounting for Dangers of Chemical Mixture 
PORTLAND, Ore., July 19, 2016 — The Environmental Protection Agency has approved nearly 100 pesticide products over the past six years that contain mixtures that make them more poisonous and increase the dangers to imperiled pollinators and rare plants, according to an investigation by the Center for Biological Diversity. These “synergistic” combinations have been widely overlooked by the EPA in its approval of pesticides for food, lawns and other uses....
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2016 2:46pm PDT
TESC Students for Justice in Palestine Respond to Evergreen Administration 
An open letter from TESC Students for Justice in Palestine’s response to the Administration’s statement concerning the affirmative student votes to boycott Sabra, Driscoll’s, and CAT products on the Evergreen campus and its refusal to respect the CAT boycott....
Posted: Thu, Jul 14, 2016 1:19pm PDT
On Drug User Health and Dignity - Interview with Mike Selick from Harm Reduction Coalition (audio/mpeg 21.7MB) On Drug User Health and Dignity - Interview with Mike Selick from the Training & Capacity-Building Institute at the Harm Reduction Coalition....
Posted: Mon, Jul 11, 2016 6:22am PDT
San Quintín: Migrant Farmworkers in Mexico 
In Mexico’s San Quintín valley, thousands of indigenous farmworkers are hired on a daily basis as a source of cheap and flexible labor....
Posted: Fri, Jul 1, 2016 12:08am PDT
Non-Profits versus Profit Maximization Cooperation and competition strengthen each other. Creating a non-profit or cooperative housing sector is the only remedy to gentrification and commodification as rental prices go through the roof. Social blindness and market failure are everywhere in Germany and the US. In Germany there is recognition that privatizing social housing was a terrible mistake. Housing as a human right is subverted by the right of speculation. Housing often mutates from a human and social necessity to a specu...
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2016 5:51am PDT
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