The World Wide Petition to BAN the Plastic Bag is Launched today and be found at The Greenhouse Neutral Foundation web site at http://www.greenhouseneutral.net/blog.asp Sign and make a global stand

Schools would be hit by $680 million in new cuts, while the state's social safety net would lose $1 billion more in funding for the poor, disabled and aged. A 5% salary reduction for state employees would save the state $470 million.

Address by Cesar Chavez based on April 1978 article in Maryknoll Magazine: "My friends, today we honor a giant among men: today we honor the reverend Martin Luther King, Jr....."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. knew that people who banded together to serve have the power to change the world. Pledge to address the root causes of hunger, poverty and injustice. Bring his dream to life!

Barack and Michelle Obama have a request for us: Spend this coming Monday--Martin Luther King Day--volunteering to serve the urgent needs in our communities.

AUGUSTA, Maine - The Maine legislature ended its session last spring with an endorsement of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and began session this fall with a resolution denouncing racism and violence.

NEW YORK - A worker was killed in the crush Friday after a throng of shoppers eager for post-Thanksgiving bargains burst through the doors at a suburban Wal-Mart, authorities said

Deep-rooted inequalities persist in education, condemning millions of children in the world to diminished opportunity and even to poverty. This is one conclusion of the 2009 Education For All Global Monitoring Report,"Overcoming inequality:

In Nigeria, where evangelical religious fervor is combined with a belief in sorcery & black magic, many thousands of children are being blamed for catastrophes, death and famine - and branded as witches, and then abandoned, tortured, starved and murdered

A small yet instructive film about the way politics has become just a series of sudden disasters, that lead us into SHOCK, making it possible to get 'things' by us that we rationally would never allow to occur...