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As internet technologies have developed, corporations have moved towards putting more restrictions on what you can freely download. Partially in reaction, a whole new movement has been created to give people access to high quality video and music. Legally.

“Garbage Monsters” are teaching a lesson in recycling and reuse of everyday items to students at the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.

Look to the Left (LTTL) is a new search facility designed to help you navigate the massive volume of information continuously being published by lefty web sites. It is geared towards helping activists search the web more effectively by eliminating the corporate clutter.

North American Theology: Pastors call for progressive change in Christian thinking.

(Munising, MI) - Two Midwest pastors are calling for a fundamental change in Christian thinking about other religions, the environment, Native American heritage and the future of the planet.

A Michigan family folk group will hold a free concert on August 12, 2007 to benefit America's first Native American battered woman's shelter in Mission, South Dakota.

The concert honors 30 years of service to the women and children of the Lakota Rosebud reservation.

The motto of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc.: Domestic Violence Is Not A Lakota Tradition.

The benefit concert is at 5 pm local time on August 12, 2007 at the Custer Lutheran Fellowship, a Custer, S.D. Church.

(Reposted because Churchill is struggling for his academic life right now, as we speak... Macdonald)

Macdonald Stainsby | Original to Resist.ca

Yes, many of our best were able to look at the McCarthyizing of Sunera Thobani and see it for what it was. The womens studies professor from Canada who had the nerve to allow the phrase "[T]he path of U.S. foreign policy is soaked in blood!" to escape her lips without asking what John Ashcroft thought (before his fortunately early, unforeseen retirement) was defended by many of us. From across the settler state of Canada, and even well into the belly of the militaristic oil monster itself, the United States, people saw the hunting of Thobani for uttering such a benign and observable fact as a threat against their own right to utter benign and observable facts. People stood with her. She was invited to speak at conference after conference, given a prominent place in many antiwar demonstrations, and often seen as a heroine for her defiance of the gag on ideas--for indeed, it seemed she was, for the time being, just that.

Yet, as I said, many of us still felt a solid need to take part in the tar-and-feathering of our more erstwhile colleagues. [...]

Ron Collins | March 21, 2007

After reading Stephen Lendman's article, "Hugo Chavez's Social Democratic Agenda", I'm left wondering where Chavez is going with this? Is the endpoint of Chavez's "social revolution" simply a "more fair" form of capitalism? Or is he really determined to bring in some true form of socialism?

Diebold - Total controlRon Collins | Mostly Water | Aug 20, 2006

The flaws in the technology that Americans trust to count their ballots, are becoming increasingly exposed. On the heals of news that Diebold's voting machines can be opened by common keys available on eBay, comes a video showing how the machines can have their software compromised, and how a modified machine can then infect others, removing any trace of the altered code at end of an election.

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In the race against time to prevent the Canadian population of spotted owls from going extinct, biologist Andy Miller reports that this is one of the strangest things he's seen. "Why would a logging company purposefully fall trees in an area with a documented nest of one of Canada's most endangered species?"

Vancouver environmentalist Betty Krawczyk, 78, is back in jail pending trial for her protests at Eagleridge Bluffs in West Vancouver. On Friday, July 7, Justice Brown ordered Krawczyk to remain in custody at Surrey Pre-Trial Centre until her next hearing at BC Supreme Court on September 15.

Dave Olsen | April 7, 2006
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Imagine a highway built for 2 cars...that's right, a road where only 2 cars can reach the destination every 2 hours...Of course, no car owner would stand for it.

But this highway does exist for cyclists: Translink and BC Ferries have created a system that allows only 2 cyclists to travel from Vancouver to Nanaimo (and vice versa) every 2 hours. Okay, I exaggerate: only 2 cyclists can connect with the first two sailings each day. The other 6 sailings each day can accommodate 4 cyclists!

by Zoe Blunt | Special to Mostly Water | Feb 24, 2006

An international development company has already moved blasting equipment and heavy machinery onto the site at the Eagleridge Exit on Highway 99, about one kilometer south of Horseshoe Bay. Work is set to begin in about one month. Angry residents are rallying this Sunday (Feb 26) and promising to block Highway 99 to demand the contractor, Peter Kiewit Sons Inc, abandon the overland route and return to the tunnel option endorsed by the residents and the West Van municipal council.