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Wikileaks: State Dept. wants intel on African acceptance of GMOs | Grist

Posted on November 30, 2010 by iwilder

Tom Philpott has reported on the State Department’s biotech-loving science adviser Nina Federoff and her industry ties — and certainly USDA Chief Tom Vilsack believes that genetically modified foods are an answer to world hunger. So this revelation hardly counts as a surprise. But it’s still a shame to see that our spymasters are actively […]

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DN! Does Opposing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Bolster US Militarism? A Debate with Lt. Dan Choi and Queer Activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Posted on November 30, 2010 by iwilder

We host a debate on whether the queer rights movement should be focused on repealing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law between Lt. Dan Choi and queer antiwar activist and writer Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Celebrating the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Sycamore says, only makes progressive movements in the US complicit with American wars […]

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4 Green Party Women Leaders in Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers

Posted on November 28, 2010 by iwilder

h/t Global Greens Green Party leaders | France, Belgium, Germany, Brazil A funny thing happened after the world’s failure to agree on a climate-change plan at the 2009 Copenhagen summit: 2010 became the year of the Greens — and more specifically, of the Green women. Cécile Duflot, head of France’s third-most powerful party, is being […]

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AI: New Order, Same Abuses: Unlawful Detentions and Torture in Iraq

Posted on November 27, 2010 by iwilder

Amnesty Internationals new report “New Order, Same Abuses: Unlawful Detentions and Torture in Iraq” highlights individual case studies of people detained without charges or trial for long periods of time; others tortured or ill-treated by Iraqi security forces, as well as cases of enforced disappearances. Read the report(pdf): “New Order, Same Abuses: Unlawful Detentions and Torture in […]

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AWOL Soldier Fights for His Right to Heal

Posted on November 11, 2010 by kwilder

The headline is from Iraq Veterans Against The War, who are supporting Jeff Hanks, who turned himself in today, after having gone AWOL because he wanted treatment for anxiety, and was instead getting re-deployed to Iraq. There is commentary and a news story at The Hill.

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Green Party New York: Guv cand Hawkins (G-NY) Says the Green Campaign Continues

Posted on November 6, 2010 by iwilder

“We won the ballot line. Now we aim to win our Green New Deal policies for New York State,” Howie Hawkins said Friday, reflecting on the next steps for the Green Party after it passed the 50,000 votes for Governor threshold needed to secure a ballot line in New York for the next four years. […]

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Lori Berenson granted parole in Peru

Posted on November 6, 2010 by kwilder

For news and updates from the Committee to Free Lori Berenson, Lori’s friends and supporters, go to the Free Lori website: www.freelori.org CNN story from November 9, 2010: here. Lori is free. Though, there may be another appeal. (excerpt from) Newsday Ex-activist Lori Berenson granted parole in Peru November 5, 2010 10:25 PM A former […]

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Election Outcomes: How the 2010 elections made history, affected the political landscape, and shaped my world

Posted on November 4, 2010 by kwilder

The facts and figures in this piece are largely from two places: “Twenty ways the 2010 election made history“, (posted at San Francisco Chronicle) and posts and links from “Endgame” daily roundup) and other articles at the Daily Politics blog. Kimberly writes: Yesterday, I discovered that the overall affect that this election had on me […]

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Why is it such a close call for Dem Congressman Tim Bishop? (and other Suffolk County results)

Posted on November 3, 2010 by kwilder

11/6/2010 early morning update: Recanvas of machines shows that Altschuler (not Bishop) is actually ahead by 400 votes so far… Story: here. To find a list of Suffolk County election results, go to the Board of Elections website: here. For NY statewide and NY Congress results (including for Suffolk County districts), you can go to […]

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Guv cand Hawkins (G-NY): Need Letters to the Editor, Halloween

Posted on October 24, 2010 by iwilder

Today would be a good day to write a letter to the editor of your local paper(s). There is just enough time for election day for them to print them. This is one of the best ways to publicize Howie Hawkins and the Greens.If mail today or Monday, has a chance of being printed before […]

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A Tunnel to Everywhere

Posted on October 16, 2010 by kwilder

A Tunnel to Everywhere by Camillo Mac Bica Let us drill a tunnel to Afghanistan, Iraq, and all the other places in the world where our sons and daughters are in peril and bring them home to safety, one by one, as the world watches and rejoices.

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17 miners trapped, 20 workers killed in coal mine explosion in China

Posted on October 16, 2010 by kwilder

(excerpt from) CNN 20 killed in China coal mine blast October 16, 2010 (CNN) — A gas explosion Saturday killed at least 20 workers and 17 more were trapped at a coal mine in central China, authorities said China’s State Administration of Work Safety said about 276 workers were underground in the mine in Henan […]

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A poem inspired by the mine rescue

Posted on October 14, 2010 by kwilder

[Update: Princess Jessica/Princesa Yesica poem in Spanish at bottom of page] Princess Jessica of Chile He, being first thought dead and now weary from the long ordeal She, having transformed her worries into curling hair, polished lips, and the desire to become a symbol of welcome and life to him He, stepped out from the […]

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Some reflections and live blogging on the rescue of the Chilean miners…

Posted on October 13, 2010 by kwilder

[Update: It is 9:20pm EST. All 33 miners are out safe! Now, they are taking up the 6 rescuers who went down to help…] [Update #2: My poem about the event is: here.] Chile Miners are being rescued… Kimberly writes: Well, I was reticent to share my personal obsession with the rescue of the Chile […]

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