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New Model of Needle Exchange: More Questions Than Answers...

What happens when the people charged with representing you and with looking out for your best interests turn away from their responsibilities to you? We all have to take care of ourselves, and the vast majority of us understand that, in the end, one's first job is to take care of that hairless ape staring back at us from the reflection in the bathroom mirror. For how else are we supposed to tend to our responsibilities to others if we let ourselves go to pot? Be that as it may, there are o...

President Obama’s recent closed-door sessions with Republican congressmen to reach a “grand bargain” has roused suspiciously little attention in the mainstream media. What scant reporting has occurred presents the following narrative: President Obama is a “middle ground” politician attempting to breach political divides with erstwhile Republican opponents. In reality these meetings are not between political opposites, but kindred spirits; perfectly matched ideologies that differ only in imple...

We are pleased to introduce a new video from Salmon Water Now. Truth and Justice: Stop the Delta Tunnels! (4:20) simplifies the reasons why building massive tunnels to move the Sacramento river away from the Delta is a bad idea. The video points out a few key facts, left out of the BDCP documents recently released, that tunnel proponents would prefer not be mentioned. And finally, the video encourages viewers to learn more about the tunnels and become a super hero in support of a h...

Chavez...

When President Obama campaigned in 2008 in Portland, Oregon over 70,000 people came to hear his speech. And although I missed the event, I was intrigued by the raw emotion that the candidate’s words inspired in my community. Obama re-visited Oregon during his 2012 campaign, but the inspiration had faded from his voice, and the audience had drastically changed. The The Oregonian explains:...

“Under the legislation, a fee on carbon pollution emissions would fund historic investments in energy efficiency and sustainable energy technologies such as wind, solar, geothermal and biomass. The proposal also would provide rebates to consumers to offset any efforts by oil, coal or gas companies to raise prices.” The Sanders-Boxer bill would impose a $20 per ton tax on carbon or methane equivalent, rising 5.6 percent each year for 10 years, on the nation’s 2,869 largest fossil fuel producer...

Workers Action joins the progressive peoples of the world in experiencing a loss with the passing of Hugo Chavez, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. It will be up to the working class of Venezuela and its allies to carry forward the socialist revolution that Chavez so courageously launched and that has been serving as a beacon for revolutionaries around the globe, while surrounded by a capitalist world that is mired in war, poverty, and environmental destruction....

Over three hundred members of the Washo Tribe of Nevada and California have signed an official recall petition against the tribe's Chair, Wanda Bachelor. So far, Bachelor and her followers at tribal headquarters have responded to the petition -by simply ignoring it. The "leaders" of the tribe have issued a gag order against the tribal members. Under the rules of this illegal "gag order," tribal members are allowed to attend tribal council meetings, -but aren't allowed to speak out, as part ...

When President Obama speaks, most Americans hear what he wants them to hear: lofty rhetoric and a “progressive” vision. But just below the surface the president has a subtly-delivered message for the 1%, whose ears prick up when their buzzwords are mentioned. Obama’s state of the union address was such a speech — a pro-corporate agenda packaged with chocolate covered rhetoric for the masses, easy to swallow, but deadly poisonous....