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Climbing Beyond Cartels
Extreme sport is rocking the lives of at-risk youth in the violent neighborhoods of Mexico.
Peace Leadership
Join us on November 16, 2014 in honoring Medea Benjamin as our 2014 Distinguished Peace Leader.
“I Know Brit Was Framed” Says New Witness, 28 Years After Miami Jailing
Krishna ‘Kris’ Maharaj, now 75 years old, was handed a death sentence in 1987 in Miami after a seriously flawed trial for the murders of Derrick and Duane Moo …
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Desperation Nation
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Meanwhile, Down at the Nuclear Power Plant, Something’s Going Wrong
The chances of radiation disasters will increase further if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission allows US reactors to run for 80 years.
Chief Caleen Sisk: It’s All One Big Project
Tribal leaders and river and groundwater protection advocates on Monday, October 27, announced their strong opposition to Proposition 1, Governor Jerry Brown's controversial State Water Bond.
Goliath Gets Bigger: Prop. 1 War Chest Grows to $16.4 million
The big corporate money behind the water bond largely determines who the bond will benefit - billionaires, corporate agribusiness, oil companies and the 1 percent, not the people, fish …
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Faces of Fracking: Rebecca Claassen
A grassroots effort in Santa Barbara County to stop intensive oil production fights against millions from the oil industry.
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Fasting for Democracy: Why I’ve Given Up Food to Fight Corruption
The struggle to end corruption and establish political equality regardless of wealth is a struggle to ensure that universal suffrage still means something.
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Halfway There
What we need to imagine, I think, is a new kind of “prosperity” - one that combines a carefully limited consumption of nature's regenerative resources with a robust consumption …