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The Coming Mega-Drought: Tightening the Screws of Want and Thirst in the American Southwest
The Southwest is a beautiful country of blue skies, little water and plenty of land, most of which is semi-arid, arid or desert. Deserts are by definition inhospitable to …
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Partners in Deforestation and Slumification
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Collateral Damage in the War on Protesters: Neighbors of the NATO3 Cuffed, Held at Gunpoint
Whether or not they are guilty of illegal activity, the original three activists facing terrorism charges in Chicago and their six apartment-mates are not the only people who were …
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New York Could Add One Million Voters in 2013
At the heart of the legislation is a mandated shift from the current paper-based voter registration system to one reliant on electronic records.
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The Peace Train: Seeing and Believing It
Personal steps toward a collective mentality of conscious consumption and resource respect embodies one piece of the peace puzzle.
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Psychiatrists Seek New Patients at Annual Meeting
Some question the objectivity of a disorder manual written by those who stand to benefit from an enlarged patient pool and new diseases.
Lethal Injection the Latest Chapter in America’s History of Botched Executions
The American correctional system has repeatedly sought to deploy our native ingenuity to devise the ultimate corrective: an engine of death that will dispose of our villains in a …
From the Chilean Winter to the Maple Spring Solidarity: the Student Movements in Chile and Québec
For both of these movements to move forward, it is important to not only promote informal acts and statements of solidarity between the two movements, but to begin establishing …
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Coal Industry Pays Fake Activists $50 to Wear Pro-Coal Shirts at Public Hearing
Apparently unable to find real activists, the coal industry paid astroturfers to wear pro-coal t-shirts at an EPA hearing.
This Land Is My Teacher: Preserving Native Agriculture and Traditions
Throughout the US, Native, Chicano, and other peoples are rejecting industrialized agriculture and are growing their own food instead, thereby reclaiming the health of their traditions, culture, bodies, and …