Don’t tar Utah
The Salt Lake Tribune
Aug 7, 2010

With little advance notice, a plan to extract Utah’s tar sands was presented last week at a hearing of Utah’s Division of Oil, Gas and Mining, which can rule on the plan in a month (“Groups challenge plans for Utah tar sands mine,” Tribune, July 27).

Canada's energy industry
Tarred with the same brush
The Gulf spill has focused American minds on pollution from Canadian oil producers. But cleaning up the tar sands will not be easy

Aug 5th 2010 | ottawa
The Economist

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By Dawn Paley - August 10, 2010

Attached is a brief psycho-social/trauma resource guide that was created based on the info and resources made available from Harmony Counseling and the Peer to Peer Support for Activist folks. Much thanks to them for all of their generous info and support. Please circulate as you like.

<p><em>Megan Adam had been scheduled to speak on a panel with Sid Tan, Billie Pierre, and Bill Lightbown titled: &lsquo;People&rsquo;s History Of ...

By Chris Hayward - August 8, 2010

Before any demonstration or boycott or riot happens on the street, two things have been going on for years: the basic mistreatment and injustice that people are upset about, and the individual targeting of the most vocal advocates to change things...[P]olice action can be best understood as not trying to curb violence in the moment, but as trying to repress protest generally over the long haul.

<p>Yesterday, August 9th, oral arguments for Eric's appeal were heard at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Most of the discussion...