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Building Works at Rath Lugh National Monument near Hill of Tara stopped by Protesters Tara Foundation 2008-03-12 1:14 PM
From the Tara Foundation: These are two statements released by the Save Tara Campaign on behalf of the Rath Lugh Direct Action Camp outlining the emergency situation at the Rath Lugh National Monument near the Hill of Tara: (text/html)

Smoke Bans: Steps to Big Insurance Takeover Watchdog 2008-03-09 10:38 PM
All bad laws come with smily faces and angel wings...for "good causes". The Smoke Ban laws are some of the worst, no matter how wholesome they are said to be. With PA legislature set to act on some new Prohibition, it's time to ask some basic questions. (text/plain)

Indymeda US NewsReal February 2008 Indymedia presents 2008-03-09 6:34 PM
NEWSREAL is a monthly compilation of coverage from citizen journalists (like you!) across the nation. NEWSREAL's goals are to embolden the global movement for social, environmental, and economic justice, strengthen non-corporate communication networks, and to encourage authentic participatory democracy, one community at a time. Each episode of NewsReal is aired on Free Speech TV every month: - Charade Posing As Regs - PacificCorp Protest - Ethiopia Out of Somalia - Voice From North (text/html)

Help us 'STOP' the bombs! peacehq 2008-03-07 2:23 PM
Their Plan: Make new nuclear weapons! The Hearing: Make your opinion known! Our Plan: Stop the Bombs! (text/plain)

International peace walk - London to Geneva through France peacehq 2008-01-24 9:17 AM
The nuclear industry threatens us all. Today there is an urgent call for global action to break the cycle of mass destruction. (text/plain)

Fossil Fools Day, April 1st: International Day of Action Against the Fossil Fuel Empire ffd 2008-01-15 12:40 AM
The International Rising Tide network and its allies are calling for a day of action against the fossil fuel industry on April 1st 2008…FOSSIL FOOLS DAY! Confronted with melting ice caps, unprecedented species extinction, droughts, and extreme weather the fools at the head of the fossil fuel empire continue to plunder the earth, with the governments as willing court jesters at their side. (text/plain)

The Ron Paul “Revolution”, an Extreme Rightwing Threat STEVEN ARGUE 2008-01-09 7:40 PM

"Paul is a white nationalist of the Stormfront type who has always kept his racial views and his views about world Judaism quiet because of his political position." American Nazi Party Commander, Bill White (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

Friar Louis Cappio must live Cesar Benjamin 2008-01-06 4:31 AM
The Brazilian semi-arid is immense: 912 thousand square km. It is populous: 22 million people in rural areas. It is the most rainy of the planet: 750 mm / year, on average, which corresponds to 760 billion cubic meters of rainfall per year. It is not true, therefore, that there is no water there. The nature provides it, but it is wasted: the waters evaporate quickly, under the strong sun, or go soon away, running on the crystalline waterproof ground. (text/plain)

Kauai to Superferry: Stay Away Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner 2007-12-04 10:55 PM

Vowing that would not happen again, Governor Linda Lingle, a friend of President George Bush, purchased armored vests for Kauai police and machine guns. Legislative rumors have it that Lingle has a "special relationship" with wealthy Superferry financier John Lehmann. She is said to want to run for US Senator Akaka's seat. (image/jpeg)

Action Alert - Vote Solar Bradley Richard Ingram 2007-12-02 5:38 PM
Don’t Let Congress Pull the Plug on Solar Energy, Jobs and Economic Growth. Local Renewable Energy creates three times more jobs than fossil fuel or energy imported from other regions. Keep Our Country strong Like a Rock. (text/plain)

Venezuela: Interview with an indigenous activist El Libertario, Venezuela 2007-11-15 11:05 PM
* As part of the 2.300 delegates in the second Zapatista and indigenous community’s international reunion, which took place last July in Mexico, members of the wayuu community delivered a truly important message: Venezuelan indigenous community’s situation is very different than the declared by the government people in Caracas. El Libertario talked about the experience with Jorge Montiel, member of the Maikiralasa’lii. (text/plain)

2007 Midwest Socialist Conference: Building a Revolutionary Alternative Midwest Socialist Conference 2007-10-16 2:38 PM
The 2007 Midwest Socialist Conference, “Building a Revolutionary Alternative” is a two-day event in early November that will bring together socialists and other activists involved in struggles across the region... (text/plain)

Nuclear Energy: The Answer is Blowing in the Wind Robert Dietrich II 2007-10-04 4:25 PM
This Essay looks at Nuclear Energy as the answer to our energy needs. It compares it to the green energy sources such as Wind And Solar energy. (text/plain)

Mumia Abu-Jamal: Pakistan, Iran, and Blackwater Mumia Abu-Jamal 2007-09-29 5:04 PM
Pennsylvania's own death-row journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal (imprisoned just outside Pittsburgh) continues his prolific journalist career. Here are three different essays focusing on Pakistan, the Iranian President's attempted visit to the WTC, and Blackwater's wars here at home in New Orleans. (text/plain)

Brazil: 185º anniversary of the independence. September the 7th, 1822. Emilio de Lima 2007-09-12 6:04 PM
The place was chosen to receive resources from the PAG because it is an area of water sources and of ambient protection. Through Guarituba flow Piraquara and Iraí rivers. They are responsible for 60% of the water that supplies Curitiba and metropolitan region . (text/plain)

Governor Otter, Please Bypass Dirk Kempthorne In Replacing Larry Craig Tree Trillions 2007-09-01 12:39 PM

IDAHO AND THE NATION'S FIRES HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY DOI'S 1 PROMOTION OF CATTLE BUFFALO BISON AND SHEEP RANCHES 2 BY THE LUMBER INDUSTRY 3 MINING AND 4 "CONTROLLED" BURNS 5 INCREASED OIL AND GAS DRILLING, A FIRE HAZARD AND EARTH DESTROYER (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Animals Ask You To Vote Against Hillary Clinton ARC 2007-08-29 1:49 PM
Hillary Clinton supports doubling NIH's animal torture funds, has voted to bomb the animals of Iraq and Afghanistan, has received money from her friend Don Tyson, nation's biggest butcher, has been on the board of animal abusing WalMart, has been silent about Mad Cow, Mad Pig, Mad Chicken in the US (text/plain)

Hillary Clinton wants to double animal torture monies at NIH ARC 2007-08-28 12:08 AM

to see what happens to animals after institutions receive your tax dollars through NIH go to emorylies.com (image/jpeg)

Toxic Treaty Favors Japan, Not the Philippines Magkaisa Junk JPEPA Coalition 2007-08-17 2:19 AM

August 14, 2007. Manila, Philippines. Senate Forum Bares Legal Traps and Empty Promises of the JPEPA (image/jpeg)

52 Reasons Not To Mow, 41 Ways To Help Trees, 26 Ways to Prevent Fires Nonmowing Coalition 2007-08-14 5:51 PM
Because of the spontaneous combustion of wood chips in a hot Houston park on Aug 13, 2007, this article has been revised. It speaks of ways to cool the world in summer and warm it in winter. (text/plain)

Brazil, Paraná: Syngenta's GMO alert! Emilio de Lima 2007-08-03 7:32 PM
The farm is located in the band of ecological protection of the National Park of Iguaçu. "In case that it begins again to be used as field of tests toward research with GMOS, it will demonstrate that the Swiss company really wants to make, at Paraná, what it would never make in the Swiss city of Basel, headquarters of the company" affirmed Silveira. (text/plain)

Dangerous Lead Levels in Seemingly Innocent Garden Hoses Melissa Rabe* 2007-07-18 2:33 AM
"In other words, we have threatened an estimated 88% of American children with a lowered IQ from lead poisoning, sometimes called the "silent epidemic." - 'Living in the Environment', Seventh Edition, G. Tyner Miller, Jr. Page 559. (text/plain + 7 comments)

Dr. Wasfi: "For Iraqis, it's 9/11 every day." Dahlia Wasfi, MD 2007-07-15 1:22 AM

Dr. Wasfi concluded her prepared remarks with this question: " Since 1958, Iraqis have hoped that each regime change might bring a better life. Have they hit rock bottom now?" (image/jpeg)

G4 process is undemocratic, No WTO deal in Potsdam! Stop the New Round Coalition 2007-07-06 3:16 AM
Trade ministers of the G4 countries (the European Union, the United States, Brazil and India) are meeting in Potsdam, Germany, this week try to stitch together a trade deal to which each of them could agree. (text/plain)

MOVE 9 Up for Parole after 30 Years in Jail! BE47 2007-06-25 2:39 PM
Ramona Africa is speaking on why the MOVE 9 need to be released on parole in 2008. Ramona is the only adult survivor of the 1985 fire-bombing of the MOVE home in 1985. She has a very personal understanding of what happened to the MOVE activists in 1978 when the MOVE 9 were put in prison. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Smoke Bans Blame Victims, Excuse Perps Watchdog 2007-06-19 10:07 PM
Pennsylvania's planned Smoke Ban, wrapped in For-Your-Protection language, is an evasion by cigarette makers, their many ingredients suppliers, their insurers/investors AND complcit public officials, of significant liabilities & penalties. It's a Nice-Sounding law, based on lies. (text/plain)

Clintons Forced To Sell War Profiteer, Environmental Desecrator and Animal Abuse Stocks ARC 2007-06-16 11:18 AM
By federal law, Clintons were forced to disinvest from their blind trust which included stocks of animal killers, war profiteers, the worst oil and vivisecting drug companies, environmental desecrators because Mrs Clinton is a candidate for president. (text/plain)

Geiger Counter Shootout At the OK Corral Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner 2007-06-15 9:24 PM

"I told General Lee on March 19 to stop lying to the [Hawaiian] Legislature. And, I told him I would get him and I did on April 21 in south Kona with those high radiation monitor readings from Pohakaloa. And it wasn't just me, the citizens who have supported and followed through are the real strength of all of this. The media has to deal with these global voices now because they are the 'shot heard round the world.'" (image/jpeg)

SMASH THE CONVENTIONS IN 2008: A reportback from the Carolinas Consulta Unconventional Action 2007-06-04 5:58 PM
This is a reportback from the Carolinas Consulta, detailing strategy proposals for shutting down and disrupting the DNC and RNC in 2008 in denver and the twin cities. read on! (text/plain)

To Chavez, Lula, Requião and Carlos Rovira. Emilio de Lima 2007-05-30 9:58 PM
Remote enawene nawe are only 420 and live mainly on the fishing. They are protesting against the plans of the soybean companies, directed by the greater producers of soybean of the world, the Maggi family, to dam the Juruena river and to obtain hydroelectric energy for the industry. (text/plain)

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