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<p>On May 1st in Asheville, North Carolina, a dozen people were arrested in conjunction with May Day activities. They were ...
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I've spent the last two days at the Institute for the Future's Ten-Year Forecast retreat in Sausalito, CA...At this retreat, I introduced ideas relating to peak net energy, and the possibility of major changes in the years ahead. I found industry leaders much more open than I had expected to listening to and understanding our energy predicament, and talking about what may be ahead.
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Senator Levin pretty much had Goldman Sach's Lloyd Blankfein dead in a casket with that now-notorious email from GS's head of sales and trading, Tom Montag, describing one of their billion-dollar investment "products" as "one shitty deal." Levin seemed to delight in crossing the boundary into the realm of the unspeakable, knowing that even the so-called "family" newspapers and cable TV networks
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Syndicated from Slashdot on Tue, 2010-05-04 Everyone knows how boring a debate on a controversial abortion bill can get on the Senate floor. So it's no wonder that Florida State Sen. Mike Bennett took the time to look at a little porn and a video of a dog running out of the water and shaking itself off.
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 The conventional wisdom in energy-and-environment circles is that China's economy, which is growing at a rate of eight percent or more per year, is mostly coal powered today and will continue to be so for deca
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 Sam Mogannam is the much-loved owner of San Francisco's Bi-Rite Market, Bi-Rite Creamery, and founder of 18 Reasons, a community space that invites people to explore art, food, and
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On a winter's day in Boston in 1773, a rally of thousands at Faneuil Hall to protest a new British colonial tax levied on tea turned into an iconic moment in the pre-history of the American Revolution. Some of the demonstrators -- Sons of Liberty, they called themselves -- left the hall and boarded the Dartmouth, a ship carrying tea, and dumped it overboard.
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This May Day in New Haven there were no black blocs or barricades, no destroyed corporate
or state property; no solidarity attacks. These will all come with time. But this May Day,
New Haven anarchists made visible a current cracking through the pavement in a city and
state whose anti-capitalist & anarchist movement is not commonly highlighted, but is
incredibly hard working.
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BOOK EARLY for a GREAT NIGHT WITH MARTIN PEARSON,
well-known comedian/singer/songwriter who recently performed to capacity audiences at the National Folk Festival
FRIDAY, 28th MAY, 7.30 pm
WHERE: GALLIPOLI LEGION CLUB, 3 Beaumont St, Hamilton
Martin presents his show: "Intelligent Design: the unwritten musical"
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In late April, around 20,000 climate change and indigenous rights activists from around the world attended the World People’s Summit on Climate Change hosted by Bolivia’s radical government.
The conference, a grassroots alternative to the failed Copenhagen summit, was a pivotal event in the fight against global warming.
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by Ryan Grim
The Federal Reserve is privately lobbying against a bipartisan Senate
amendment that would open the central bank to an audit by the
Government Accountability Office, according to documents distributed to
Senate offices by a Fed official.
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<p>I attended a march in Nijmegen, the largest May Day demonstration that the anarchists in the Netherlands have had in decades.</p>
<p>We put up s...
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Angry residents of Okinawa today rejected a plan by Japan's prime minister to keep at least part of a controversial US base on the island, in what could prove a new blow to support ahead of an election.
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by Nick Spicer
Forty years ago, on May 4, 1970 soldiers opened fire on a student
anti-war protest on the campus of Kent State University, nestled around
the small, sleepy Ohio town of Kent.
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