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(Please include your email address on your check.) Joseph Boutilier | Undercover COP Joseph Boutilier, Truthout: Ignored by mainstream media and in the midst of protests of inaction, our leaders meeting in Warsaw have ensured that - at a time of colossal urgency - it will be at least one more year before the world stands together at the UN Climate Change conference to possibly do something about the Earth's greatest threat to date. Read the Article The Workplace Needs to Adapt to People's Needs Taliesin Nyala, Truthout: The conventional way we do business crushes workers' lives and community vitality. The democratic workplace provides an alternative, argues Nyala. Read the Article Test Score Driven Education Ignores Students Jeff Bryant, Campaign for America's Future: As 2013 closed out, the education world was roiled by yet another controversy over the calculation and interpretation of statistical data used to govern teachers and school services. Read the Article Could Crowd-Sourced Organic Seed Banks Save Our Agricultural Future? Paromita Pain, Occupy.com: Fifty-three-year-old farmer Jaswant Sainhara never thought he could be an activist. But in August he was among the thousands of farmers from across 20 Indian states who braved sweltering heat to demonstrate in New Delhi against the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India Bill. Read the Article Youth Can Handle the Truth Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance: Instead of creating an environment for honest discussion of the past and present which would facilitate reconciliation, school text books and programs perpetuate the status quo. Despite this, students are questioning the injustice that they can't help but see around them. Read the Article GOP Refuses to Extend Jobless Benefits s.e. smith, Care2: After losing his job over the summer, Dale Sexton has become one of the more than four million faces of the new American economy: the long-term unemployed, people who have been seeking work for six months or more. Read the Article Climate Protection: The New Insurgency Jeremy Brecher, Foreign Policy in Focus: Faced with the failure of conventional lobbying, the climate protection movement is now turning to mass civil disobedience—but we can take it further still. Read the Article Can Childhood Trauma Shorten Your Life? Charlotte Silver, AlterNet: Ten percent of Americans die of coronary heart disease yet have none of the risk factors. Some of these people may, however, have something else in common: childhood trauma. Read the Article Sikh Community Fights to Stop Meat Plant Next to Its Temple Kristina Chew, Care2: A Sikh community has appealed to the High Court in Bradford, West Yorkshire in the U.K. to stop the building of a meat processing plant next to the Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara, one of the oldest Sikh temples in England. Read the Article | 
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