Dear famous actresses: Your looks scare me
I’ve gotten so tired of Photoshop Plastic World that lately I’ve been shooting film because film is more real. From Salon:...
View ArticleNiece of Cuba’s Fidel Castro denied permission to pick up gay rights award in...
From Gay Star News: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/niece-cubas-fidel-castro-denied-permission-pick-gay-rights-award-philadelphia260413 Equality Forum calls the visa denial ‘shocking’ By Greg...
View ArticleArch Coal Denied Permission to Blow Up West Virginia Mountain
From Corp Watch: http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15835 by Puck Lo, April 25th, 2013 A subsidiary of Arch Coal of St. Louis, Missouri, has been denied permission to dump nearly three billion...
View ArticleLos Angeles to San Onofre: “Not So Fast!”
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/27 by Harvey Wasserman Published on Saturday, April 27, 2013 by Common Dreams A unanimous Los Angeles City Council has demanded the Nuclear...
View ArticleMaddow: Right wing fringe is now a cynical money-making ‘racket’
From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/27/maddow-right-wing-fringe-is-now-a-cynical-money-making-racket/ By David Ferguson Saturday, April 27, 2013 Friday night on MSNBC’s “The Rachel...
View ArticleEverything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
This is one worth buying a hard copy of Rolling Stone in order to read it carefully. From Rolling Stone:...
View ArticleOur Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer
From The New York Times Magazine: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/our-feel-good-war-on-breast-cancer.html?ref=magazine By PEGGY ORENSTEIN April 25, 2013 I used to believe that a mammogram...
View ArticleBradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is...
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/27/bradley-manning-sf-gay-pride A seemingly trivial controversy reveals quite a bit about pervasive political values Glenn...
View ArticleDon’t Let Monsanto Kill the Humble but Wholesome Dandelion
From Truth Out: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/15982-dont-let-monsanto-kill-the-humble-but-wholesome-dandelion By Phreddy Wischusen Thursday, 25 April 2013 I was watching TV the other day....
View Article‘We Speak for the Bees’: Marchers Urge EU-Wide Ban of Killer Pesticides
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/26-2 ‘This is not abstract theorizing. Bees are dying out. Now.’ Jon Queally Published on Friday, April 26, 2013 by Common Dreams They...
View ArticleU.S. Activists Outraged Over So-Called ‘Monsanto Protection Act’
From Inter-Press Service: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/u-s-activists-outraged-over-so-called-monsanto-protection-act/ By Matthew Charles Cardinale Monday, April 29, 2013 ATLANTA, Georgia, Apr 28...
View ArticleSlaves to Our Stuff: A Creative Vision to Break Away From Consumer Culture’s...
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/environment/slaves-our-stuff-creative-vision-break-away-consumer-cultures-destructive-grip Billy Talen, known as Reverend Billy, talks about his new book and...
View ArticleThe Digital Education Divide
From In These Times: http://inthesetimes.com/article/14870/the_digital_education_divide/ Massive Open Online Courses threaten to aggravate the problems they were designed to solve. BY Susan J. Douglas...
View ArticleNo Rich Child Left Behind
From The New York Times: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/no-rich-child-left-behind/ By SEAN F. REARDON April 27, 2013 Here’s a fact that may not surprise you: the children of the rich...
View ArticleWhy I’m Kind of Over “Pride Day”
For one thing I remember when “Pride Day” commemorated the Stonewall Uprising. Back in those days it was political. I didn’t go to the Christopher Street West Gay Liberation Marches until 1974. The...
View ArticleGlobal carbon dioxide levels set to pass 400ppm milestone
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/29/global-carbon-dioxide-levels The concentration of carbon in the atmosphere over the next few days is expected to hit record...
View ArticleNortheast US Ocean Temperatures Highest on Record: Report
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/29-6 Temperature spikes causing drastic shifts in ecosystem Jacob Chamberlain Published on Monday, April 29, 2013 by Common Dreams...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia blocks climate change from UN poverty goals
From Responding to Climate Change: http://www.rtcc.org/saudi-arabia-blocks-climate-change-from-un-poverty-goals/ By John Parnell 26 April 2013 Saudi Arabia is leading calls for climate change to be...
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