Hope, Love and Strategy in the Time of the Zombie Apocalypse Stephen Lerner, Truthout: If we can marry the intensity of love with the committment of solidarity - bonding love for those increasingly left out and behind with dedication to a better world for all of us - we may have the missing link in developing an ideology that simultaneously contains class struggle and a path to the Promised Land. Read the Article Pennsylvania Court Deals Blow to Secrecy-Obsessed Fracking Industry Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet: A Pennsylvania judge in the heart of the Keystone State's fracking belt has issued a forceful and precedent-setting decision holding that there is no corporate right to privacy under that state's constitution, giving citizens and journalists a powerful tool to understand the health and environmental impacts of natural gas drilling. Read the Article Small Farms Fight Back: Food and Community Self-Governance Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds: Small farmers who sell their food locally will tell you that the nature of their business, based on face-to face relationships with the people who eat their food, creates a built-in safety protection. Read the Article The Struggle to Reclaim Paradise Imani Altemus-Williams, Waging Nonviolence: Hawaii is currently at the epicenter of the debate over genetically modified organisms, generally shortened to GMOs. Because Hawaii is geographically isolated from the broader public, it is an ideal location for conducting chemical experiments. Read the Article Are School Closings Racist? Curtis Black, Community Media Workshop: Some people think so. At the most basic level, there's the fact that decisions about African American communities are being made without their consent. Read the Article Truthout TV With Mark Karlin on White Males and Guns Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: Mark Karlin argues that for some white males, a gun is a symbol and weapon of their power in society. After publishing a widely read commentary on BuzzFlash, Mark Karlin spoke with Truthout TV host, Ted Asregadoo, about the main points of his op-ed. Watch the Video NPR Attacks Disability, Bolsters 'New Consensus' Against Welfare Jesse Bernstein, Labor Notes: Any success in maintaining disability benefits will require a movement of poor people focused on keeping them. Such a movement has yet to emerge, but without it we may soon be looking at the "end of welfare as we know it" - again. Read the Article Hearts, Minds and Dollars: Condolence Payments in the Drone Strike Age Cora Currier, ProPublica: The U.S. drone war remains cloaked in secrecy, and as a result, questions swirl around it. Who exactly can be targeted? When can a U.S. citizen be killed Another, perhaps less frequently asked question: What happens when innocent civilians are killed in drone strikes? Read the Article It's Time to Shine a Light on the Poverty Creation Industry Joe Brewer, Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk, Think Africa Press: Poverty is human-made. It is created – knowingly and with scientific efficiency – by a vastly sophisticated industry that includes private companies, think tanks, media outlets, government policies, and more. Read the Article This week in SpeakOut: Ann Wright reminds Americans that official apologies from Israel are meaningless unless action is taken to lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip; Lee R. Haven responds to the cheating scandal in the Atlanta public school system; Mikey Weinstein discusses conservative superstar Chuck Norris' latest attack against the Military Religious Freedom Foundation; Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed new legislation to break up banks that have grown too big to control; Dennis Trainor Jr. at AcronymTV releases a new video on Obama's "Grand Betrayal"; the United National Anti-War Coalition announces drone protests across the nation this April; and more. Read the Articles |
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