Monthly Archives: August 2012
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Landowners and Climate Change Activist Blockade Truck Carrying Materials for Keystone XL
Leave a commentAugust 31, 2012 by Posted by Peter Rugh
Via Tar Sands Blockade: On Tuesday, four landowner advocates and climate justice organizers locked themselves to the underside of a massive …
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Marx and Engels as activists
Leave a commentAugust 30, 2012 by Posted by Peter Rugh
“Standing up in front of real, live people and holding forth to them directly and straightforwardly, so that they see …
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Haifa court exonerates Israeli military for the death of Rachel Corrie
Leave a commentAugust 29, 2012 by Posted by Peter Rugh
Common Dreams, Aug. 28, 2012 Family’s lawyer: ‘Court has given its stamp of approval to flawed and illegal practices that failed …
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‘Don’t frack with New York’
2August 29, 2012 by Posted by Peter Rugh
Several thousand people flooded New York’s state capital Monday, delivering letters to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office containing pledges to take nonviolent direct …
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Is New York about to get fracked?
Leave a commentAugust 28, 2012 by Posted by Peter Rugh
By Kelli Daley New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was most likely not expecting a cheesy magic act during a recent policy …
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Call for labor and environmentalists to come together on one-year anniversary of OWS
Leave a commentAugust 25, 2012 by Posted by Peter Rugh
A message from the Labor Network for Sustainability: On the occasion of its one-year anniversary, Occupy Wall Street has invited …
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New Obama campaign ad touts coal and fracking record
Leave a commentAugust 24, 2012 by Posted by Peter Rugh
He’s already established an intergovernmental task force to encourage the proliferation of fracking, opened up the arctic for Shell to drill, …
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Study: 40% of US food is wasted
Leave a commentAugust 23, 2012 by Posted by Peter Rugh
Getting food from the farm to our fork eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 …
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Finally, an anti-fracking ad on the TV
Leave a commentAugust 21, 2012 by Posted by Peter Rugh
In upstate New York, one of the last frackable terrains not yet opened up to drillers, and where New York …
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Julian Assange addresses supporters from a window at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London (video and text included)
Leave a commentAugust 19, 2012 by Posted by Peter Rugh
Julian Assange addressed crowds from a window in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London Sunday. The famed whistleblower faces extradition to …
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