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59:54 – Mar 27, 2009
pdxjustice on Apr 23, 2011
Scientist, feminist, ecologist and author, Vandana Shiva, presenting the keynote address at the 2009 Organicology Conference in Portland, Oregon, on February 28, 2009.
Replaced video June 19, 2012
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BBC
49:47 – Mar 7, 2009
Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key. With her father close to retirement, Rebecca returns to her family’s wildlife-friendly farm in Devon, to become the next generation to farm the land. But last year’s high fuel prices were a wake-up call for Rebecca. Realising that all food production in the UK is completely dependent on abundant cheap fossil fuel, particularly oil, she sets out to discover just how secure this oil supply is. Alarmed by the answers, she explores ways of farming without using fossil fuel. With the help of pioneering farmers and growers, Rebecca learns that it is actually nature that holds the key to farming in a low-energy future.
Noam Chomsky on the economy and democracy Pt2
Noam Chomsky: The best way to move forward is support unionization
President Obama wanted to show his solidarity with working people, so he went to Illinois and talked at an industrial plant. The choice was striking: he chose Caterpillar. Now, he had to do that over the objections of church and human rights groups because of the devastating effect that Caterpillar machines are having in the Israeli-occupied territories, where they’re wiping out agricultural land and destroying all of the roads and villages and so on. But nobody, as far as I can see, noticed something even more dramatic. I mean, Caterpillar has a role in US labor history. Caterpillar was the first plant in generations to bring in scabs to destroy a strike.
Thanks to Suren Surendiran who sent the press release to DS.
Tamil Insight » London Conference Reaffirms Tamils’ Aspirations
(British Tamils Forum, 28.03.2009)
British Tamils Forum, assisted by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPG-T), hosted an international conference, titled “World Tamils Forum”, on Thursday, 26 March 2009 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in London. Tamil academics, professionals and Tamil Youth from 22 countries attended the conference, at which Rev Jesse Jackson from the USA was the key-note speaker. The 45 delegates gathered over two days to discuss and draw up a declaration addressing the humanitarian tragedy facing Tamils in Sri Lanka, exposing the Genocidal War, reinforcing the need for a political process and the role that international actors would need to play.
The Former Defence Secretary and the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to Sri Lanka Rt. Hon. Des Browne, Former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer, Labour National Executive Committee (NEC) Member Mr Mike Griffiths, Entertainer and Charity Worker Sir Jimmy Savile, Members of Parliament from the UK and Sri Lanka, Dignitaries and Civil Servants also attended the conference.
by Jason Miller
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Thomas Paine’s Corner
March 29, 2009
By Jason Miller
3/27/09
While it’s a commonly held belief that “everyone has a nonbiological twin somewhere in the world,” I wonder if we all have an antithetical “anti-twin” as well. Because I recently met someone who could easily be mine. Ironically enough, it was at the public library, one of my favorite haunts.
It’d been a particularly cold winter and the mercury had finally inched up to where it was light jacket weather, so I decided to spend a day prowling around an area called The Country Club Plaza, a Kansas City “landmark.”
Picture the Plaza as a physical incarnation of the spiritual realm where all the souls of the “good” members of the bourgeoisie will transcend once they’ve run themselves to death in the race to acquire the most toys.
Featuring rather exotic-looking architecture styled after that of Seville, Spain; retailers who demand credit approval and notarized validation of net worth exceeding six figures prior to entry into their establishment (so as to prevent “the rabble” from invading their luxurious fiefdoms); and restaurateurs whose appetizers cost enough to feed a family of four for a month, this “shopping district” is at the nexus of what some people refer to as Kansas City’s “old money.” Suffice it to say that the inhabitants of the palatial estates lining nearby Ward Parkway and State Line Road enjoy extensive insulation from the current “economic downturn.”
By Jerry Mazza
Featured Writer
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crossposted at Online Journal
www.jerrymazza.com
March 29, 2009
I have a vision, as Martin Luther King once said. A vision of racial and economic equality, equal opportunity and civil rights for people of all colors. The question is how do I, we, go about realizing this vision?
Dr. King conceived of passive resistance, non-violent protests, to bring vast numbers of people, black and white into the street, to the schools and lunch counters, the bus stops and the Washington Mall to show their strength and insistence on their principles. I envision a similar formula.
14:05 – Mar 20, 2009
Remembering the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
Jackie and Dunlap’s solution to the Mexican drug wars. Well, Dunlap’s, at least.
Let Your Jackie Flag Fly
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by Gaither Stewart
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28 March 2009
“Chi non lavora, non fa l’amore”
Precariousness looms like a black cloud over the continent of Europe. The fragility of human life and of the life style generations of westerners are accustomed to today rages like a modern plague. Precariousness is a contagious disease. It leaps from worker to worker, from class to class. No wonder that life in our times has never seemed more temporary. Permanence belongs to another age.
(Rome) A popular Italian evergreen from the 1970s depicts a contemporary conundrum for many Europeans: “Chi non lavora, non fa l’amore” go the lyrics. The woman tells her man, “If you don’t work, there will be no love-making in this house. If you strike and don’t bring home pay, I will strike too. No love-making here!” The worker goes back to his job and strikers beat him up and call him a scab. No sex if he strikes, beatings if he works. He is truly the superfluous and precarious man. His only hope is that the capitalist boss relents and grants the pay increases the union demands and lets love into his house again. But that, he must realize, is highly unlikely.
Mar 23, 2009
The Real News Cafe: Recorded live at the Gladstone in Toronto, a Real News panel takes on the Afghan war
October 13, 2008
Dr. Helen Caldicott speaks about our nuclear future at the Myer Horowitz Theatre at the U of A campus.
Recorded October 8th, 2008 in Edmonton, Alberta.
WASHINGTON, March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
The following is a statement of Ralph Nader on the 30th anniversary of Three Mile Island:
After thirty years without a firm order, the atomic power companies are pushing their radioactive, costly technology for a comeback on the backs of you, the taxpayers.
Press TV
Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:11:44 GMT
The US government is bracing itself to care for up to 30,000 people fleeing record flooding in the country’s northern plains.
US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said amid ‘historically unprecedented’ flooding in the Red River valley region between the states of Minnesota and North Dakota, the federal government had readied itself to house and feed 30,000 people for up to a week.
“In the worst case scenario we could be dealing with 80,000 to 100,000 people evacuated,” Napolitano told reporters on Friday, adding the vast majority would likely stay with family or friends.
Napolitano also stressed that any decisions about evacuations will be made at the local level. So far, roughly one-third of Minnesota’s Moorhead city residents have been asked to evacuate their homes.
The former Arizona governor also stated that she had briefed President Obama on the situation this morning and will do so again this evening. ‘He’s watching it very, very carefully’, she said.
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