ELECTION THEFT AND THE RESTORATION OF DEMOCRACY are center stage as BOB FITRAKIS joins the Green Power & Wellness Show to talk about the litany of ways we are denied our voice. A new generation of Jim Crow laws deny people of color, elders, young people, poor people and …
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Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground reservoirs that help supply more than half of the nation’s drinking water. In many cases, the Environmental Protection Agency has granted these so-called aquifer exemptions …
In East Texas, members of the Tar Sands Blockade started their eleventh week of opposition to construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline with a new act of civil disobedience against the onrush of global warming, sealing themselves inside a mile-long segment of the pipeline itself. In Doha, Qatar, other protestors at the U.N. World Climate Conference found themselves in just as dark and …
When the smartest guys in the room designed their credit default swaps, they forgot to ask one thing – what if the parties on the other side of the bet don’t have the money to pay up? Credit default swaps (CDS) are insurance-like contracts that are sold as protection against default …
The World Social Forum calls itself “an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neoliberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely …
LEGAL MARIJUANA, NO MORE DRUG WAR & GETTING TO PAPER BALLOTS are at this greatly liberated GREEN POWER & WELLNESS SHOW. HarveyW is joined by election rights pioneers Sheila Parks, Bob Fitrakis & Cliff Arnebeck as we celebrate the legalization of pot in Colorado and Washington State and explore …
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On one historic day in 1992, I marched through the State Capitol Building and adjoining Senate Offices with hundreds of recreational fishermen, commercial fishermen and environmentalists working for the passage of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA). Arrayed in yellow and green commercial fishing slickers and colorful recreational fishing …
Does AARP really speak for the elderly? Or the AMA for doctors? In Washington, AARP (the American Association of Retired Persons) is said to represent the interests of retirees in arguments about medicine. Their endorsement of President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was mentioned reverently during the October …
Lest you think this is just partisan propaganda, these are real, recorded votes in the House of Representatives [3]. The Republicans seem to have it in for women and not just against health insurance covering reproductive health care, Planned Parenthood’s other services, or privacy for the medical records of victims of rape …
How the big corporations are involved in the deaths of our U.S. infants. Shocking statement to make and whoever states such had better be able to prove it. Read the proof! U.S. capitalism equates that money/profits are more important than the deaths of our people. The salaries/bonuses of wealthy Directors …
The World Bank rejected a call by aid group Oxfam International to freeze the lender’s investment in land-intensive agricultural projects, saying such a move would not help prevent abusive practices in the purchase of acreage. Oxfam, in a report released yesterday, urged the Washington-based bank to declare a moratorium on its agricultural …
What’s been ongoing for over 18 months looks all too familiar. It could continue for some time. It took most of the 1990s to fully balkanize Yugoslavia. America was the lead belligerent. Whether or not Washington plans the same for Syria remains to be seen. Only the fullness of …
Health freedom-loving New Jerseyans are concerned by State Senator Loretta Weinberg’s Senate Bill No. 1759. Introduced this past March, Senator Weinberg’s bill is a bid to make the exercise of a vaccine religious exemption more difficult for New Jersey parents. If passed, this bill would require parents to state their religious beliefs …
Across the country, families facing foreclosure and homeowners with “underwater” mortgages are fighting back against the big banks that stripped them of their one valuable asset and crashed the economy. The resistance takes many forms – homeowners refusing to leave when the sheriff arrives with an eviction notice, community groups …
When President Obama spoke at the United Nations, he did his usual thing. He made some great points, he soared on the updrafts of his oratory, he distorted the U.S. role in the world, and after denouncing violence, he issued a veiled threat of war against Iran. He spoke powerfully …