Monday, June 29, 2009

Street Pianos hit London! Spotted by Cate Trotter, aka the Green Insider

Wonderful idea to place pianos around a square and left people entertain each other!

Friday, June 26, 2009

What do the Drug companies offer? Health? Nope; just money - for whoever will take it.

First, They Came Bearing Trinkets for Doctors--Now, Junkets for Journalists




Over on the always-excellent Schwitzer Health News Blog,  the University of Minnesota’s Gary
Schwitzer spotlights a notice that appeared in the Society of Professional
Journalist’s (SPJ) e-newsletter:

“Interested in covering the health
industry, science and medical research? Even more interested in using
journalism to inform the public about the leading cause of illness and death
worldwide? The National Press Foundation offers an all-expenses-paid four-day
fellowship for journalists on ‘Cancer Issues.’ The program will be in Washington,
D.C. Sept. 13-16. Fifteen fellowships will be awarded and they all include
lodging, airfare and most meals. The applications deadline is 5 p.m. July 28,
2009."

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Welcome home to your USA!

ACTION: Help Support Immigration Reform Today


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As most of you already know, the White House is meeting with Congress right now to discuss immigration reform, We need to show a strong movement for reform! Here is how you can help!

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

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Vote for a strong climate and energy saving bill this Friday!

Happy Birthday Judge Sotomayor!

Here's hoping that a similar photo is taken shortly about your confirmation!

Sonia Sanchez "Put on the sleeves of love."

Listen up about standing on the side of love!

The Who, What, When and Where of Immigration Reform

Pro-immigration reform demonstrators in New York on May Day - Photo: Jocelyn Gonzales/Feet in 2 Worlds

Pro-immigration reform demonstrators in New York on May Day. (Photo: Jocelyn Gonzales/Feet in 2 Worlds)


What: President Barack Obama will meet Congressional leaders from both parties to discuss the way forward in fixing the U.S. immigration system. The White House has insisted on tamping down expectations, saying this is just the beginning of the conversation.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Reform Immigration Now -Welcome those who want to live and work here!


SOURCE:
AP/Rex C. Curry

Demonstrators march with an American flag during an immigration reform rally in Dallas, Texas.





The need for immigration reform in the United States is beyond question. The nation’s broken immigration system undermines our core national values, disserves our economic and security interests, and diminishes our moral standing in the world. Reforming this system is also critical to successfully addressing other key issues such as health care and the economy.

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The higher the unemployment gets, the harder its gets to be green

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Mountaintop removal protest: Finding a path forward?



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Hundreds of people on both sides of the mountaintop removal issue gather along W.Va. 3 Tuesday outside Massey Energy’s Goals Coal Co. processing and shipping

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Like it - want more of it - Green Theater on the Road

b-activists: Canadian theatre group’s Tour de Green



photo courtesy of otesha project

photo courtesy of otesha project


On June 18th, a group of young cyclists started pedaling 2,000 kilometers across southern British Columbia, presenting theater performances to dozens of communities along the way.

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Number one job to save energy and lungs

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Old coal plants: A key to dealing with climate change



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Fixing existing coal-fired power plants is a key for the coal industry if it wants to remain part of the world’s energy mix in a carbon-constrained future, according to the latest report published by the folks at MIT’s Energy Initiative.

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Sunday, June 21, 2009

The World's Shame

1/6th of us with not enough to eat.
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1.02 billion people hungry

19-06-2009

One sixth of humanity undernourished - more than ever before

Photo: ©AFP PHOTO/JES AZNAR

The faces behind the numbers.

19 June 2009, Rome - World hunger is projected to reach a historic high in 2009 with 1 020 million people going hungry every day, according to new estimates published by FAO today.

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Love one another, as I have loved you.

We are not doing so well, are we?

The number of people internally displaced within their own countries has reached a historical high of more than 28 million, the UN's refugee agency said today, as conflicts in Pakistan's Swat valley and Sri Lanka compound a growing global problem.

[An internally displaced girl, who fled a military offensive in the Swat valley region, sits in line with her food pots while awaiting her ration of tea at the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) Yar Hussain camp in Swabi district, located about 120 km (75 miles) north west of Pakistan's capital Islamabad, June 16, 2009. (REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro)]An internally displaced girl, who fled a military offensive in the Swat valley region, sits in line with her food pots while awaiting her ration of tea at the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) Yar Hussain camp in Swabi district, located about 120 km (75 miles) north west of Pakistan's capital Islamabad, June 16, 2009. (REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro)
At the end of last year the total number of people forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution around the world stood at 42 million, including 16 million refugees and asylum seekers and 26 million people uprooted within their own countries, according to UNHCR's annual Global Trends report, which was released this afternoon.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Great Magazine - newest issue

Read it!
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YES! Online June 2009
The New Economy: Summer Issue
David KortenspacerWhy This Crisis May Be Our Best Chance
Let Wall Street go and rebuild a Main Street economy.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Who's in Charge of Immigration? Roger Rabbit?

Sorry to defame a smart rabbit - but stories like this seem to be best explained as a bad movie plot instead of some Bush League hold-over who doesn't care who gets hurt in trying to embarass Obama Administration by using the"book" as an excuse to just be dumb and mean!
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U.S. Orders 11-Year-Old Out of the Country


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ewelina 300x225 U.S. Orders 11 Year Old Out of the CountryHer mom and dad are legally allowed to stay at their home in Georgia, but an eleven-year-old child has been ordered to leave the country by July 23.

Ewelina Bledniak’s parents say it’s a paperwork mistake, made by the lawyer they hired when she was two and they moved to the states.

Dad Hubert is now a U.S. citizen who owns a tile installation business in their small town. Mom Agnes is a legal resident going through the process to become a citizen. But Ewelina’s plight came up when the Bledniaks applied for a green card for their daughter.

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Friday, June 12, 2009

Intersection: An MTV EXIT Animation Part 2 (English)

What would you do if it was your child, your sister or brother being trafficked? Help to end human trafficking - now!

Intersection: An MTV EXIT Animation Part 1 (English)

End Human Trafficking - now!

I Stand For Peace

I do - do you as well?

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Employee Free Choice Act - Level the playing field

The march brought together 300 union members and community allies, both to support “labor’s issue”—the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which Bank of America has attacked—and to denounce the bank’s home foreclosures. Jobs with Justice had led 30 protests of Bank of America across the state, and our alliance in Lynn produced the largest and most diverse one.
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A march in Lynn, Massachusetts, for the Employee Free Choice Act and against the Bank of America’s home foreclosures helped build a relationship between unionized working people and community organizations, especially among immigrants. Photo: Bill Rouseville
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Testing Torture , UCLA International Institute

Testing Torture , UCLA International Institute

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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Radiohead - All I Need: Anti Trafficking Video

Children all over the world are being trafficked for labor and sex. It's a death of their childhood and needs preventing.

Street Corner Solidarity

"The workers said 'Thanks, but no thanks, we won't do that.' And instead 260 day labourers joined 2,000 janitors who marched across the landscape of Los Angeles," he said.

[(photo: Jornalero News, Official News Blog of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network)<br />](photo: Jornalero News, Official News Blog of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network)
"That's the type of solidarity that's going to bring immigrant rights organisations [together] with organised labour," said Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Labour Organising Network (NDLON), the most extensive network of immigrant workers centres in the United States.

At national and local levels, strategically and tactically, trade unions and organisations of mostly immigrant day labourers are gravitating towards each other and inventing ways to cooperate. The new alliance shows potential both to strengthen organised workers' leverage in the labour market and to increase their political muscle.

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Street Corner Solidarity

"The workers said 'Thanks, but no thanks, we won't do that.' And instead 260 day labourers joined 2,000 janitors who marched across the landscape of Los Angeles," he said.

[(photo: Jornalero News, Official News Blog of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network)<br />](photo: Jornalero News, Official News Blog of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network)
"That's the type of solidarity that's going to bring immigrant rights organisations [together] with organised labour," said Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Labour Organising Network (NDLON), the most extensive network of immigrant workers centres in the United States.

At national and local levels, strategically and tactically, trade unions and organisations of mostly immigrant day labourers are gravitating towards each other and inventing ways to cooperate. The new alliance shows potential both to strengthen organised workers' leverage in the labour market and to increase their political muscle.

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We Failed to follow bombing rules - Pentagon

[Villagers look for the bodies of victims of airstrikes under the rubble in destroyed mudbrick houses in the village of Garni in the western Farah state on May 5, 2009. US forces failed to follow procedures in carrying out deadly air strikes last month in western Afghanistan in an incident that killed dozens of civilians, the Pentagon said on Monday. (AFP/File)]Villagers look for the bodies of victims of airstrikes under the rubble in destroyed mudbrick houses in the village of Garni in the western Farah state on May 5, 2009. US forces failed to follow procedures in carrying out deadly air strikes last month in western Afghanistan in an incident that killed dozens of civilians, the Pentagon said on Monday. (AFP/File)
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Eco-Car Show in London, UK

Wandering up to City Hall on another Green Tour, we noticed the green, leafy park actually looked more like a car park. Then the penny dropped - Love London's off with a bang! Love London is London's annual green festival – three weeks of all kinds of activities, from workshops to help people make their communities greener, to recycled sculpture shows, to the World Naked Bike Ride

Investigating a little more, it turned out we'd chanced across the Revolve Eco-Rally, meaning every vehicle there was some kind of awesome, high-tech eco-vehicle.
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All sorts of green cars – Love London festival's begun!


Categories:
electric cars, green technology, hydrogen fuel cells, love london, random spottings, sustainable transport


Jun 9, 2009 12:54 pm


Sustainable transport London

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Sunday, June 07, 2009

What of the Afghan children in the Obama Surge?

clipped from www.irinnews.org

Photo: Masoud Popalzai/IRIN
Twenty five percent of children in Afghanistan aged 7-14 are at risk of leaving school and drifting into exploitative work situations (file photo)
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George Tiller Funeral Draws Protests but Ends Peacefully | CommonDreams.org

George Tiller Funeral Draws Protests but Ends Peacefully | CommonDreams.org

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Great Group and Message - Michael Franti & Spearhead

YELL FIRE!
Official Release Date: 2006
Label: Boo Boo Wax & Anti

In 2004 Michael Franti decided to ‘walk his talk’ and traveled to the war zones of Iraq, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This wasn’t a USO green zone sponsored visit – Franti and his team organized a trip that would take him to the core of the red-zoned, war torn neighborhoods of Baghdad, the West Bank and Gaza Strip with his guitar, video cameras and the intent to experience first hand the human cost of war. Out of this journey, Franti has created a compelling documentary film titled I Know I’m Not Alone and a searing, reflective new album of original songs titled Yell Fire! recorded in Kingston, Jamaica and Franti’s hometown of San Francisco, California.
ALL REBEL ROCKERS
ALL REBEL ROCKERS : AVAILABLE NOW



Michael Franti and Spearhead return with their eagerly-awaited album, ALL REBEL ROCKERS
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Saturday, June 06, 2009

Human Trafficking Escalates as World Economy Plunges, UCLA International Institute

Human Trafficking Escalates as World Economy Plunges, UCLA International Institute

Friday, June 05, 2009

Rep. Honda on NBC discussing the Reuniting Families Act

Give a listen

Free Speech - Not when you threaten corporate courts and coal

One hand smudges the other, while the top of Old Smokey disappears to power Fox news Broadcasts?
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Mountaintop removal protesters Charles Suggs, Matt Noerpel, Joseph Gorman, Cassandra Rice and Matthew Louis-Rosenberg wait in the courtroom for Judge Burnside to come back with his ruling. Photo by Antrim Caskey.


But, Burnside did say he would apply his injunction to future protesters who, while not named in any of the previous court papers, act in concert or in association with the protesters named in the injunction. It remains to be seen how broad that language will be once the judge enters a written order.

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Wednesday, June 03, 2009

P.E.A.C.E OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO PORSCHA PARKER

Nice tribute to time for Peace - hope President Obama can live up to it.

The Grim Beat of Killing Goes On in Guatemala

Loving mercy and doing justice is no easy task in Guatemala - that's the reason so many have come to the US for safety.

One week after the murder of Rodrigo Rosemberg and the infamous video, as well as the subsequent protests dubbed the “white tsunami,” another violent murder took place in El Ixcál, Guatemala. Armed men intercepted the car carrying 5 missionaries on their way to a meeting. Shots rang out and a Congolese priest, the Rev. Jean Claude Nowama was seriously injured and a priest from the United States, the Rev. Lawrence Rosebaugh was killed. The incident brought an end to the life of Rosebaugh, who is best remembered as a champion of non-violence and peace during his years serving in Latin America.

Photo of Father Lawrence Rosebaugh and used with permission by Pastoral Social del Ixcán

Photo of Father Lawrence Rosebaugh and used with permission by Pastoral Social del Ixcán

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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

30% of Gaza farm land in "no man's free fire zone"

How many rights is it OK to violate and still get military aid fro the US? No limit, it seems, for Israel.
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On the edge of the buffer zone in the village of Khuzaa stands the rubble of a home destroyed in Israel's January assault
on Hamas. A Khuzaa farmer who tried to return says he was shot in the hand.

Erin Cunningham

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No words

To describe how respect for life turns inside out when it becomes an ideology - there are no words.
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Slaughtering the Amazon and the Earth

When you lace up your favorite pair of shoes, you could unknowingly be unraveling the Amazon rainforest. It turns out leather coming from the Amazon rainforest is being used to make a number of consumer products, perhaps even the Nike, Adidas, Timberland, or Reebok shoes you're wearing right now.

Take Action NOW >> Tell Adidas, Nike and others that every step counts when it comes to saving the Amazon, so it’s time they step up.
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Greenpeace report cover: Slaughtering the Amazon

Our new report, Slaughtering the Amazon, tracks leather, beef, and other cattle products from ranches in the Amazon that are involved in illegal deforestation, slave labor, and abuses of Indigenous rights to a complex global supply chain that is laundering Amazon deforestation and feeding the demand for raw resources to make popular name brand products
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Monday, June 01, 2009

The Jewish-Arab Peace Song (w/ English subtitles)

Even - grin - music can contribute to peace, if we let it.