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U.S. Special Forces Snag Plan to Free Afghan Detainees

Syndicated from Common Dreams

Promoted by blackandred on Tue, 2010/03/23 - 2:00pm

by Gareth Porter

An initiative to revise the procedures for reviewing the cases of detainees in order to free marginal insurgents and innocent Afghans has run afoul of the interests of officers of the powerful Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)...A study of U.S. detention policy in Afghanistan...had concluded that holding hundreds of detainees without charge...was helping the hardcore Taliban radicalise the vast majority of the detainees.

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March 29; Drop the charges!: Call-in In Support Of Minneapolis Fur Protesters

Syndicated from Infoshop News on Tue, 2010-03-23

As fur protesters and avid animal lovers Isaac Peter and Michael Lawson stood chanting anti-fur slogans on the sidewalk outside of Ribnick's Fur...

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Support Harvard workers, calling all anarchists!

Syndicated from Infoshop News on Tue, 2010-03-23

The Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement is calling on our friends and comrades to join us at the rally for Harvard Workers, March 25, 5pm at the Hol...

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Second Halifax Report Card on Homelessness

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Tue, 2010-03-23

Housing Crisis can not be ignored any longer

In 2009, 1,718 people stayed in shelter beds, including 869 men, 574 women, 174 youth, and 99 children (under the age of 16) right here in Halifax.

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“Springtime for America (Again)” - Bay Area IWW Participates in the March 4th Demonstrations

Syndicated from Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) on Tue, 2010-03-23


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College Students Rally for Student Loan Legislation on Hill

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Tue, 2010-03-23

by Nick Anderson

College students swarmed Capitol Hill on Tuesday to plead for more
financial aid as private lenders made a last push to preserve their
endangered role in making federal student loans.

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Move to Legalize Marijuana in California Sparks Fears About Drop in Prices

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Tue, 2010-03-23

by Robert Mackey

A proposal to put the legalization of marijuana in California to a vote this November is causing some growers of the plant in the state to worry about a sharp drop in the value of their crop if the measure succeeds.

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Intentional Communities as Resource-Sharers: Cohousing Booms as Option in Urban Living

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Tue, 2010-03-23

by Joseph P. Kahn

Jenise Aminoff didn’t own a car when she and her husband moved into Cambridge Cohousing, a 41-unit urban housing development near Porter Square, in 1999.

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Help Stop a Man-Made Disaster in Ethiopia

Syndicated from Intercontinental Cry on Tue, 2010-03-23

href="http://intercontinentalcry.org/help-stop-a-man-made-disaster-in-ethiopia/"> hspace="5" align="left" src="http://intercontinentalcry.org/wp-content/uploads/Three-generations-by-the-Omo-River-128x96.jpg" title="" alt="" /> The Gibe 3 Hydro Dam threatens to destroy the livelihoods of 500,000 Indigenous People.
A group of international NGOs have launched a campaign to stop a disaster-

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UN Report: World's Biggest Cities Merging Into 'Mega-Regions'

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Tue, 2010-03-23

by John Vidal

The world's mega-cities are merging to form vast "mega-regions" which may stretch hundreds of kilometres across countries and be home to more than 100 million people, according to a major new UN report.

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Redtop Road Blockade - Babine Lake, B.C.

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Tue, 2010-03-23