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Common Ground’s Eighth Anniversary: A Model of Volunteer-Driven Rebuilding in New Orleans
Common Ground offers a model of how volunteers of good will working with affected communities can make a difference.
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Monsanto Spends Millions to Defeat Washington GMO Labeling Initiative
With a $4.6 million check to the campaing to defeat a GMO food labeling vote in Washington state this fall, Monsanto is banking on repeating its California victory.
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Ukraine’s Gay Community Fears Russia’s Pull
A geopolitical land grab that would force Ukraine under Russian influence would have disastrous implications for Ukrainian gay men and women.
Defending Indigenous Lands and Waters in Honduras: The Case of Rio Blanco
A Honduran-owned and foreign-financed company has been attempting to build a dam on the sacred Gualcarque River in the Lenca community of Rio Blanco.
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Trafficking of Children and Women in India
End trafficking in India and the worldwide epidemic in human suffering caused by this crime will be greatly reduced.
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Taliban Attack on Afghan Workers Is Sign That One Program Is Working
The lesson is that this is no time to scare, away from development which in any event costs a tiny fraction of the cost of military occupation.
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Thank You, Anarchy: Notes From the Occupy Apocalypse
Jonah Raskin reviews Nathan Schneider's book ‘Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse.’
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The Old Extreme GOP vs. the New Extreme GOP: Whoever Wins, We Lose
The fact that their enemies are extreme doesn't mean that Boehner and Cantor aren't.
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Forty Years on, Much of Allende’s Dream Has Come True
The United States no longer has the same hegemonic stranglehold over countries within Latin America.
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Mobilizing for War, Not Jobs
People across the nation are - or should be - asking why is it that this monumental lobbying effort can be mounted to get involved in still another foreign …