News :: Globalization
Invisible Hand / Iron Fist: The Role of the IMF in Burma/Myanmar
05 Oct 2007
by
Ryan Harvey
The image of hundreds of thousands of people in the streets of a military-regime always brings the people of the world a little closer together. The massive protests erupting across Burma/Myanmar recently even got statements out of the mouths of some of the world’s most feared leaders. When the iron fist finally came down on these people, and the rifles of the military-regime’s foot soldiers were fired in the crowds, one can only hope that somehow these people find the strength and fearlessness to hold their ground, with the fewest casualties possible.
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News :: Media
Quebec introduces carbon tax
News Junkie Scott's Blog (10/05/07)
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News :: Environment : Health Care
Hawaiian Islands are Contaminated with Ballistic Uranium
04 Oct 2007
by
Lindafaye Kroll RN BSN
Please be pro-active and help us protect Hawai'i; demand the military not store, use or transport depleted uranium in the Hawaiian Islands.
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Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Peace
New video shows how government “data-mining” harms privacy
04 Oct 2007
by
Hope Marston & Ben Grosscup
The 26-minute video "FBI Unbound" is being shown in towns across the U.S. this fall -- especially on October 26, the anniversary of the PATRIOT Act.
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News :: Civil & Human Rights
Our Friends the Egyptians
University of South Florida student Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, arrested with pipe bombs near a North Carolina Navy base, is going to have his defense paid for by Egypt.
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News :: Civil & Human Rights
Young woman provides new leadership to African liberation struggle
03 Oct 2007
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by
African People's Solidarity Committee
Ivory Muhammad, President of Uhuru black rights organization will speak at African People’s Solidarity Day events in Oakland; says police brutality, discriminatory prison rates, the Jena 6 show that African people in the U.S. are still not free
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