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Get Nukes Out of Europe ACTION
World  (tags: nuclear energy, nuclear strategy, environment, global zero )

Nancy
- 8 days ago - nukesout.org
On May 20th, world leaders will meet at the NATO Summit in Chicago, where the future of hundreds of US nuclear weapons deployed in Europe is on the agenda. Let's tell them it's time to get these weapons out of Europe, sign the petition below
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Thrive
World  (tags: economics, environment, science, arts, education, thrive )

Nancy
- 18 days ago - thrivemovement.com
Interesting film and website. Thanks to Carlton Ward for the link in one of my threads.
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No Higher Power Than Exxon
World  (tags: Exxon, environment, power, economic footprint, 15 countries, oil power, rules )

Dandelion
- 22 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Rachel Maddox explains how the CEO of Exxon has more power than the President of the USA. That Exxon has a bigger economic footprint than about 150 countries. That when you have that much money you spend it on yourself to make more money.
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Demand Transparency in the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement! ACTION
World  (tags: Trans-Pacifac Trade Deal, transparency, environment, jobs, corporate control, indigenous rights )

Nancy
- 26 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
From past experience, we know what free trade deals brokered by and for corporations look like: they give sweeping rights to private investors while undermining protections for people and the environment. They allow corporations to run roughshod over...
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Tell President Obama and Secretary Chu: Stop Taxpayer Loans for Georgia Reactors! ACTION
World  (tags: nuclear energy, nuclear strategy, US, Obama, environment, tax dollars )

Nancy
- 56 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
This is big. The $8.3 Billion taxpayer loan for construction of two new reactors at the Vogtle site in Georgia, the centerpiece of the Obama Administration's support for the "nuclear renaissance," may be blocked--by the Obama Administration. You can help
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CANADA: How Ottawa Runs on Oil
World  (tags: ecosystems, environment, energy, tar sands, resource management, Canada, world, news, politics, interesting, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', government, society )

Cal
- 60 days ago - www2.macleans.ca
Suddenly Western money and influence are driving everything that happens in the nation's capital
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World Water Day 2012. The World Walks for Water & Sanitation. Join The Walk!! GET INVOLVED!
World  (tags: humanrights, africa, asia, children, water, world water day, eco-friendly, food, healthy, health, green, greenliving, greenproducts, organic, environment, sanitation )

Jim
- 65 days ago - worldwalksforwater.org
The World Walks for Water and Sanitation is a global event demanding action to address the world's largest crisis - water and sanitation. From 17 to 25 March 2012, thousands of people will walk together to demand political change. And you can take part
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AFRICA: Drought in Sahel Affects Urban Cameroonians
World  (tags: weather, climate-change, green, humans, ecosystems, environment, water, world, politics, freedoms, Refugees&Relief, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', africa )

Cal
- 86 days ago - ipsnews.net
Rural populations throughout the region have started to run out of food since early February, six months before the next harvest is expected. And all governments in the Sahel, except for Senegal, have appealed for international assistance as 12 million p
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'Nodding Disease' Confounds Experts, Kills Children
World  (tags: Nodding disease, children's diseases, malnutrition, disease control, prevention, health, environment, Africa, Uganda, children's welfare, civil war, World Health Organization, science )

Julia
- 96 days ago - google.com
Anywar is one of more than 3,000 children in northern Uganda who are suffering from a debilitating mystery ailment known as nodding disease, which has touched almost every family in the village of Tumangu...
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NO RELIEF: "A Catastrophic Year" as Hunger Crisis Looms Over Sahel
World  (tags: ecosystems, environment, hunger, world, africa, drought, politics, news, palestine, government, Refugees&Relief )

Cal
- 101 days ago - ipsnews.net
Seven out of the eight governments in the Sahel - the arid zone between the Sahara desert in North Africa and Sudan's Savannas in the south - have taken the unprecedented step of declaring emergencies as 12 million people in the region are threatened by h
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Chris Hedges: Corporations Have No Use for Borders
World  (tags: barack obama, bush, canada, chris hedges, environment, government, health care, israel, keystone xl, keystone xl pipeline, military, montreal, obama, occupy wall street, toronto, wall street )

Judy
- 116 days ago - truthdig.com
What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial complex. Universal health care. Funding for the arts. A good record on the environment.
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Madagascar: Illegal Rosewood Trade Continues
World  (tags: environment, ecosystems, destruction, world, wildlife, pollution, humans, politics, habitatdestruction, conservation, nature, habitat, world, society, politics, interesting, government )

Cal
- 121 days ago - allafrica.com
Environmentalists and the international community are trying to find ways of limiting the damage caused by an explosion in the illegal logging of precious hardwoods in Madagascar since a major political crisis began there nearly three years ago.
14 comments
Yes! I Stand With Family Farmers Vs. Monsanto! ACTION
World  (tags: food, health, Monsanto, environment, gmo, farmers, legal action, ethics, world, corruption )

Nancy
- 124 days ago - action.fooddemocracynow.org
In what can only be described to be another example of Agribusiness and Government interference in the lives of America's family farmers, if Monsanto's genetically modified (GMO) crops contaminate an organic or conventional farmer's fields and that farmer
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Amazon 'Uncontacted' Tribes at Risk From New Highway Plan
World  (tags: world, native rights, environment, news, development, politics, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', HumanRights, freedoms, violence )

Cal
- 127 days ago - theecologist.org
Tension is mounting in one of the remotest regions in the Peruvian Amazon over plans to build a highway through the country's biggest national park
24 comments
Somalia Famine: "Tens of Thousands Will Have Died," UN Says
World  (tags: world, africa, mass starvation, drought, environment, politics, government, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', society, news )

Cal
- 131 days ago - globalpost.com
A quarter of a million Somalis are still suffering from the famine, and child malnutrition rates remain the highest in the world.
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