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  • Aaron Swartz's Last Gift: Site Launches Whistleblower Safe House

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-17

    <div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/aaron_kevin-580.jpg" style="width: 540px; height: 359px;" title="Kevin Poulsen and Aaron Swartz working out the kinks of their open sourced safe house.

  • Aaron Swartz's Last Gift: Site Launches Whistleblower Safe House

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-17

    <div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/aaron_kevin-580.jpg" style="width: 540px; height: 359px;" title="Kevin Poulsen and Aaron Swartz working out the kinks of their open sourced safe house.

  • Burning Tar Sands = 'Unsolvable' Climate Crisis: Hansen

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-17

    <div class='node-body'><p>Fresh off his <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/02">resignation</a> from NASA, leading climate scientist James Hansen is making the rounds this week, warning media and lawmakers that not only are we heading for a &quot;tremendously chaotic&quot; climate, but if we dig up and burn Canadian tar sands, the climate crisis will be rendered &quot;unsolvable.

  • Burning Tar Sands = 'Unsolvable' Climate Crisis: Hansen

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-17

    <div class='node-body'><p>Fresh off his <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/02">resignation</a> from NASA, leading climate scientist James Hansen is making the rounds this week, warning media and lawmakers that not only are we heading for a &quot;tremendously chaotic&quot; climate, but if we dig up and burn Canadian tar sands, the climate crisis will be rendered &quot;unsolvable.

  • Canadian PM Harper: Tar Sands Are Awesome

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-17

    <div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/harper_tellthetruth_350_0.jpg" style="width: 540px; height: 360px;" title="Photo: 350.org" /><span class="caption">Photo: 350.org</span></span>Canada&#39;s right-wing Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in New York on Thursday championing tar sands and the Ke

  • Canadian PM Harper: Tar Sands Are Awesome

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-17

    <div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/harper_tellthetruth_350_0.jpg" style="width: 540px; height: 360px;" title="Photo: 350.org" /><span class="caption">Photo: 350.org</span></span>Canada&#39;s right-wing Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in New York on Thursday championing tar sands and the Ke

  • Uninvited and Unwelcome: First Nation asks Enbridge to Leave Territory Following Botched Consultation

    Syndicated from Media Co-op on Fri, 2013-05-17
    Gitga’at First Nation reminds Enbridge that Northern Gateway pipeline and oil tanker project is not welcome in Gitga’at territory. 

    HARTLEY BAY, BRITISH COLUMBIA (May 16, 2013) – The Gitga’at First Nation has instructed Enbridge to l

  • Gitmo Activists Mark 100th Day of Hunger Strike With Media 'Storm'

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-17

    <div class='node-body'><p>Friday marks the 100th day of the Guantanamo detainees&#39; hunger strike and human rights activists are making it known.</p>

  • Happening Now: Activists Mark Gitmo Day 100 With Media 'Storm'

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-17

    <div class='node-body'><p>Friday marks the hundredth day of the Guantanamo detainees&#39; hunger strike and human rights activists are making it known.</p>

  • (fr) Courant Alternatif CA #229 - Vous avez dit crise ?

    Syndicated from A-Infos (Français) on Fri, 2013-05-17

    Le discours sur la crise économique est un discours récurrent du pouvoir, parfois absent
    mais jamais pour longtemps depuis maintenant 40 ans, depuis le premier choc pétrolier.

  • (en) Chile: The Frente de Estudiantes Libertarios (FEL) is 10 years old by Manu García (ca)

    Syndicated from A-Infos (English) on Fri, 2013-05-17

    Chilean libertarians are celebrating. It is 10 years since the birth - on 21 May 2003 in
    the city of Valparaíso - of one of the organizations of the libertarian political project
    that has achieved greatest national influence: the Libertarian Students' Front (FEL).

  • Mundraub.org: Sharing our common fruit

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2013-05-17

    <img src="http://www.resilience.org/rendition.small/uploads/article_custom/1368800514-37c8d6f5fac508121/Cherry_Tree_Leb.jpg">
    <p>In a rural area in the former East Germany, late summer 2009: Shimmering heat, the intense odor of fermenting fruits is in the air. A tree covered with hundreds of juicy pears, and a foot-high layer of rotting fruit on the ground.

  • Whole Foods Taps Brooklyn's Gotham Greens for Rooftop Farm

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2013-05-17

    <img src="http://www.resilience.org/rendition.small/uploads/article_custom/1368797704-d4f15bdf3c3271d8d/ourgreenhouse-480x291.jpg">
    <p>Although Greenpoint, Brooklyn, isn't known as a hotbed for sustainable agriculture, that's not stopping Gotham Greens from making a name for themselves.

  • Experts: Fed's Push for More Wiretapping a Recipe for Security Disaster

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-17

    <div class='node-body'><p>A group of security experts have issued a <a href="https://www.cdt.org/files/pdfs/CALEAII-techreport.pdf">report</a> on Friday warning that the FBI&#39;s wiretapping expansion <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/29-7">proposal</a> is &quot;unwise, ineffective&quot; and &quot;poses serious security risks.&quot;</p>

  • Experts: Fed's Push for More Wiretapping a Recipe for Security Disaster

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-17

    <div class='node-body'><p>A group of security experts have issued a <a href="https://www.cdt.org/files/pdfs/CALEAII-techreport.pdf">report</a> on Friday warning that the FBI&#39;s wiretapping expansion <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/29-7">proposal</a> is &quot;unwise, ineffective&quot; and &quot;poses serious security risks.&quot;</p>