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Democracy Now! 2010-05-27 Thursday
- Headlines for May 27, 2010
- Coast Guard Grounds Ships Involved in Spill Cleanup After 7 Fall Ill; BP Reportedly Preventing Fishermen From Wearing Respirators
- Renowned Marine Biologist Carl Safina on the BP Oil Spill's Ecological Impact, on the Gulf Coast and Worldwide
- Historian Bruce Cumings: U.S.
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The press conference was given by two representatives from the autonomous municipality of
San Juan Copala, Jorge Albino Ortiz and Adalberto Hernandez Alvarez and attended by 17
different media organisations, including official and independent electronic media, as
well as magazines and newspapers.
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As we wait for the results of yet another effort to plug the leaking Gulf oil well, it is a good time to review the forces that are impacting on the energy markets and ultimately the cost and availability of our oil.
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Syndicated from Libcom on Thu, 2010-05-27
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Syndicated from The Tyee on Thu, 2010-05-27
The violent horror of Ciudad Juarez.
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In August of 2012, the Republican National Convention will be held in the sunny, humid,
sub-tropical belly of the beast of Tampa Bay, Florida. ---- The Tampa Bay Action Group
(TBAG), a decentralized collective of anarchists strewn throughout the urban and swampy
reaches of Florida, is committed to making 2012 and the RNC in Tampa a truly catastrophic
celebration of liberty.
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Syndicated from The Tyee on Thu, 2010-05-27
The music industry doesn't know its ass from its elbow.
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“The Density of Human Potential at the School of Authentic Journalism Was Orders of Magnitude Above Any Other Room on Earth”
By Jesse Freeston
Class of 2010, School of Authentic Journalism
May 27, 2010
http://www.narconews.com/Issue65/article4130.html
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"Silkwood" is the classic 1983 film chronicling the life and death of Karen Silkwood, employed in a US nuclear facility, who blew the whistle on the dangers of nuclear accidents and safety violations. Starring Meryl Streep. Cheap meal from 6.30pm
Brisbane Activist Centre, 74B Wickham St, Fortitude Valley. Contact Jim 0423 741 734, 3831 2644
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Vancouver- A busload of University presidents from G8 nations gathering at the Fairmont Pacific Hotel in downtown Vancouver literally came face-to-face with resistance by social activists, accusing them of legitimizing a body that is responsible for the word's social and economic inequality.
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By Anthony Fenton - May 27, 2010
While the way forward for counterinsurgency operations in Central Asia and the Middle East is discussed on the inside, on the outside security forces will employ tactics that have become standard fare at international summits. G8/G20 security forces will keep protesters behind an “unscalable” security perimeter, likened to an “urban combat zone”...
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Twice now, in the fall of 2007 and the spring of 2010, the price of oil has risen past $80 a barrel, and each time a multinational debt crisis followed. Coincidence?
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By Monique Woolnough and Marika Heinrichs - May 24, 2010
Toronto’s grassroots community groups are coming together to prepare for the dubious honour of hosting the G20 in the heart of Canada’s financial system...A mass mobilization strengthened by the local work that exists in Toronto is being built by poverty action groups, radical disability activists, migrant justice organizations, artists’ collectives, food justice groups and countless unaffiliated people, some getting involved in organizing for the first time.
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<p>In the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York -- a beautiful, wild part of the country, dotted with farms and homesteads -- activists are fight...
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<p>In my last column, I discussed how Paul Krugman, under the pretense of debunking libertarianism, inadvertently made an argument for anarchy. Kru...
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