The MLSE Team Up Foundation is introducing a new grant program this year – the Team Up Foundation Fund (TUFF) with a total of $200,000 available across four charitable grants.





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]]> The Navajos have nearly 10,000 gallons off water on their land but the U.S. cut it off nearly entirely and gave it to Phoenix, whose people use nearly ten times the daily amount a Navajo does.
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]]> Whatever Bush or his hosts say, we have no doubt he cancelled his trip to avoid our case. The message from civil society is clear – If you’re a torturer, be careful in your travel plans. It’s a slow process for accountability, but we keep going.”
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A panel of experts debunks some of the myths surrounding the "crisis" of the Canadian public health care system and the need for further privatization.
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]]> On April 20, 2010, the deep sea drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, belonging to the British energy giant BP, experienced an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven people died...
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]]> We call on you to put a moratorium on the introduction of GM crops into Europe and set up an independent, ethical, scientific body to research the impact of GM crops and determine regulation.
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]]> German Shepherd from Dorset, England lost one of her rear paws after being trampled on by a horse. Since her paw was too damaged to salvage, Mitzi’s owners sought help in vet Dr. Noel Fitzpatrick (pictured far left) who gave the dog a new artificial paw.
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]]> Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper believes in capital punishment: The Liberals believe he has a hidden agenda and the NDP finds the Prime Minister’s position troubling.
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]]> The discussion of violent and paranoid rhetoric in the media is long overdue, whether or not it is ever determined that accused Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner was somehow influenced or motivated by such rhetoric.
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]]> There's 100 million tons of plastic trash in the North Pacific concentrated by the oceans currents into a toxic soup twice the size of Texas where plastic outnumbers plankton 40-to-1. All this plastic pollution in our oceans poisons, strangles, starves,
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]]> For more than six years, multinational energy companies have targeted southern Oregon for a proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import facility in the Coos Bay estuary and a 234-mile gas pipeline across Coos, Douglas, Jackson and Klamath counties.
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]]> Ezra Nawi, a Jewish Israeli of Iraqi descent, is a threat to the settlers and the Israeli government because he has brought international attention to efforts to illegally remove Palestinians from the Hebron region. He will be sentenced August 16th.
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]]> SARAH PALIN and the stealth attack of DOMINIONISTS -- be afraid, Palin is not a joke, but a danger
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]]> Canadian judge rules against deportation of outspoken anti-Iraq war resister
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]]> Recently the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), an advocacy group, along with Specialist Jeremy Hall filed suit in federal court in Kansas. This case being held in front of civil authorities
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]]> The McGuinty government wants to spend billions rebuilding Canada's oldest and most dangerous nuclear station. The Pickering nuclear station is just 30km from downtown Toronto---closer than any other nuclear
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]]> The number of Iraqi orphans increased in the last few years due to the war. According to official Iraqi government statistics released in December 2007, the number of Iraqi orphans had reached at least five million over the last three years. Many due to
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]]> Not everyone has the time or money to travel and march on Washington, or confront political figures with signs flying and cameras rolling. However, activism comes in many forms, and effectiveness can be
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]]> Families torn apart to make way for mining companies? Uranium [link to fact sheet] exploration without consultation? Political prisoners?
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]]> Dan Rather Reports presents conclusive evidence of the failure of touch screen voting machines across the country. The episode, "The Trouble with Touch Screens", is an entire hour devoted to new information
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]]> On May 4, 2006 during a police operation in response to protests by activists from a local peasant organization in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico, Bárbara Italia Méndez, along with 25 other women, was arrested
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]]> At first glance, the mugshots appear to be a gallery of roguish grandfathers, but the octo- and nonagenarians are the 10 most-wanted fugitives of one of the most heinous regimes the world has ever seen.
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]]> Andrea Gibson, poet, activist at the peotry slam '06
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]]> So now we are approaching the 2008 election. The same crooked elections officials are in control. The same secret vote counting machines will be used. Once more the government will ask you politely if you want to
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]]> While political parties are losing members and voter turnout is sinking, Germans are discovering direct democracy. Their referendums, such as this Sunday's on Tempelhof Airport, are beginning to make life difficult for politicians and the business
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]]> FEMA announced recently that they will be conducting a national disaster exercise called National Level Exercise 2-08 (NLE 2-08) from May 1st through May 8th. The purpose from May 1st through May 8th.
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]]> House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has threatened to subpoena several former officials in the Bush administration if they do not agree to testify about their roles in the preparation of the
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]]> A former street-fighting neo-fascist won a crushing victory in Rome’s mayoral election last night, crowning the victory two weeks ago of Silvio Berlusconi and the centre-right in the general
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]]> Marisa has been locked in a small, windowless room for the past three days. The 14-year-old girl is angry but says that she understands why her mother, Blanca, has refused to let her out. “If I walk out


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]]> WASHINGTON - Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including failed projects that are being
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]]> The report of the Paris World Congress, organised by Together Against the Death Penalty with the help of the World Coalition in Paris in 2007, has just been published. Its aim is to serve as a “guide to


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]]> On 27 March, a US federal appeals court overturned Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence, but not his conviction for murder.
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]]> The Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged having 7,000 pages of documents pertaining to President George W. Bush's secret rendition and detention programs, according to three international


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]]> Prime Minister Stephen Harper might have reminded the U.S. yesterday how much it depends on Canadian energy imports – and thus, on NAFTA – but he neglected to mention the onerous terms for Canada.
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]]> A "SILENT tsunami" unleashed by costlier food is threatening 100million people, the United Nations has warned, revealing that its World Food Program has begun cutting the provision of school meals to some
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]]> Why is this not bigger news? Remember when the nation was brought to a virtual standstill over Bill Clinton's affair with a White House intern?
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]]> Residents of Port Hope, Ont., are up in arms about a proposed shooting range and tactical facility that would train a contingent of private security guards how to use assault weapons, shotguns, sniper rifles
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]]> An American expert in torture techniques has denounced his government for allowing "waterboarding" to be practised against terror suspects, just as a graphic advertisement showing the brutal reality of the technique is unveiled to British cinema-goers
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]]> The Army doubled the number of waivers it issued to allow convicted felons to enlist between 2006 and 2007, while felony waivers issued to Marine recruits increased by nearly 70 percent, according to newly

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]]> In the United States, Americans at least have veteran journalists like Harvard-educated Lou Dobbs from CNN, and Jerome Corsi, who have sought to warn Americans about the Security and Prosperity Partnership North
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]]> In Riyadh, the college day begins for female students behind a locked door that will remain that way until male guardians come to collect them.
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]]> Pilots for 9/11 Truth, an international organization of pilots and aviation professionals, petitioned the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) via the Freedom of Information Act to obtain
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]]> When two police officers came to interview Jamie Bauld, a polite, friendly Down’s syndrome boy with a mental age of about 5, he welcomed them with a big smile and a handshake.
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]]> The psychological toll of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has touched one in five servicemen and its consequences will be long-lasting, a study suggested yesterday.


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]]> The parents of a 10-year-old boy who was handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a police cruiser for being too noisy intend to file a complaint against Ottawa police today, alleging that at least one
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]]> In the article titled "Martin should resign as MP, Layton says" by Elizabeth Thompson, that was published in the Montreal Gazette on 2 April 2008 "New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton, is
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]]> New documents have been uncovered that reveal how heads of state of the U.S., Mexico and Canada are beseeching business leaders they privately meet with to launch public relations campaigns in order to
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]]> Yale University student, artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages for her art project.
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]]> VANCOUVER — The country's only armed transit police have been tasering passengers who try to avoid paying fares.

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]]> NEW YORK - What's scary, funny and boring at the same time? It could be a bad horror movie. Or it could be the fine print on your Internet service provider's contract.


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