Chippenham & Beyond video

Women take direct action!

Author: undercurrentspaulo
Keywords: women undercurrents protest sex love rape
Added: July 23, 2008

The invasive lionfish--venomous and voracious--has reached the tropical western Atlantic, where its reproductive rate is soaring. Invasive species expert, Lad Akins, of the Reef Environmental Education Foundation; along with College of the Bahamas marine science intern, Everton Joseph; and specimen collector for the Bermuda Aquarium, Chris Flook, team up in the waters of the Bahamas, where they dive, collect, tag and dissect, to better understand the invader in its new home. They'll run key field experiments, to identify potential controls, and assess the likely impacts of the invasion, on fragile reef ecosystems and ocean-based economies.

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The invasive lionfish--venomous and voracious--has reached the tropical western Atlantic, where its reproductive rate is soaring. Invasive species expert, Lad Akins, of the Reef Environmental Education Foundation; along with College of the Bahamas marine science intern, Everton Joseph; and specimen collector for the Bermuda Aquarium, Chris Flook, team up in the waters of the Bahamas, where they dive, collect, tag and dissect, to better understand the invader in its new home. They'll run key field experiments, to identify potential controls, and assess the likely impacts of the invasion, on fragile reef ecosystems and ocean-based economies.

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In 2001 more than 300 000 people came to Genoa to stop the G8 meeting. Many suffered extreme police violence. 7 years later the trials are coming to an end. The mayor of the city of Genoa has invited the people to ask for public reconciliation. 25 people were sentenced for up to 11 years of prison for property damages such as breaking windows compared to sentences of a maximum of 5 years for the 76 Italian police officers under trial so far. 15 have been found guilty for torture and systematic abuse of authority.

Author: undercurrentspaulo
Keywords: 2001 g8 genoa globalviews visionontv
Added: July 22, 2008

In 2001 more than 300 000 people came to Genoa to stop the G8 meeting. Many suffered extreme police violence. 7 years later the trials are coming to an end. The mayor of the city of Genoa has invited the people to ask for public reconciliation. 25 people were sentenced for up to 11 years of prison for property damages such as breaking windows compared to sentences of a maximum of 5 years for the 76 Italian police officers under trial so far. 15 have been found guilty for torture and systematic abuse of authority.

The people with the white t-shirt are the plaintiffs the mayor supposed to apologize to, but the police and officials would not let them into the city hall.

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Speaking of growing Red Fife Wheat in North America, I ran across this article on Boston.com about farmers in Vermont starting to grow grain again after a one hundred year absence. The price of growing and transporting grains from the midwest has given northeast farmers a competitve reason to start growing again.

The resurgence of interest in regional grain-growing picked up momentum about five years ago, as Vermont dairy farmers faced escalating costs for grain shipped from the Midwest to feed their cows. Costs have doubled while supplies have grown more scarce, farmers said, because of a host of factors, including crop failures in the American heartland, increasing global food demand, unprecedented fuel costs … more and more Vermonters, from all walks of life, are turning to locally grown foods, farmers and bakers said, creating new markets for, among other products, Vermont-grown wheat for making flour and bread.

I think we’re going to start seeing more and more of this as the price of oil goes higher and higher. Why get your wheat from 1500 miles away when you can grow it in your own county?

Andy Atkins talks about his role, his inspirations and his high hopes for the future of our planet

Author: friendsoftheearth
Keywords: Andy Atkins Friends of the Earth politics activism environment climate change biodiversity people power strategy personal action Chile democracy solutions
Added: July 22, 2008

Talk by Jim Douglass author of "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters" given June 6, 2008 at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle.

Author: talkingsticktv
Keywords: JFK MLK RFK Assassination Unspeakable CIA FBI Oswald Kennedy
Added: July 19, 2008

Gareth Porter: White House realized threats are not working - Cheney may not get his way

Top US diplomat to meet Iranian nuclear negotiator despite Iran not halting enrichment program

Sahimi: No evidence that Iran's nuclear program poses a threat (4 of 6)

Is Obama realistic about pulling troops out of Iraq and will he face up to 'big oil'?

AFL-CIO economist says this system amounts to "Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor"

Aijaz Ahmad: What would a rational American foreign policy look like? Pt 4

Mothers of two electrocuted soldiers placed the blame for their sons' deaths with KBR

Gareth Porter: Will Obama be truly post-Cold War?

Pay attention! If you want to know who the killer is, you need to keep your eyes peeled...

Author: wiltshirecollege
Keywords: Ben Everett Wiltshire College Charlotte Brick
Added: July 17, 2008

Prof. Barnett Rubin on the US, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Taliban and NATO (1 of 4)

ANP: Kucinich continued his impeach Bush crusade last week, Pelosi suggesting this time they may listen

In our final installment from Burning the Future, we learn how individuals organizing on a grass-roots level can make a difference! Citizens, lawyers, physicians, and even pilots all come together in support of a common cause: stopping mountaintop removal in West Virginia coal mining.

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