Category: Environment
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Propaganda: North Korea Perspective on US, Western Civilization
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in Business, Crime, Culture, Economy, Education, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Homelessness, Housing, Human Interest, Immigration, Land Use, Law, Media, Opinion, Politics, Religion, Sports, WarOn a trip to visit family in Seoul in April, I was approached by a man and a woman who claimed to be North Korean defectors. They presented me with a DVD that recently came into their possession and asked me to translate it. They also asked me to post the completed film on the…
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Farming Activists Preempt Secret Albany Council Harvest
As many as 75 Occupy the Farm farmers and activists preempted Saturday an Albany Council invite-only harvest of crops planted by the group in April at the Gill Tract, a 5-acre plot of class 1 agricultural land owned by UC Berkeley and used for crop research, and delivered to the UC Berkeley Chancellor a barrow’s-full…
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Reports of Occupy’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated
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in Economy, Education, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Homelessness, Housing, Immigration, Labor, Media, Opinion, PoliticsIt should be no surprise that the mainstream media is eager to report on Occupy’s supposed demise. Even ignoring the fact that the corporate-owned media has a strong desire to never see social movements such as Occupy succeed, the media, as a rule, generally needs to put a dramatic narrative to everything it reports. To…
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Food Authors, Writers and Academics Urge UC Berkeley to “Embrace the Gill Tract Farm, Not Police it”
We urge the administration and campus police to drop all charges against the farmers and protesters, and to engage in good-faith negotiations to ensure that the Gill Tract is reserved for community-based agricultural use to be governed as a form of commons in conjunction with the farmers and local community.
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Presidential Debate: San Francisco Greens Love Jill Stein and Roseanne Barr
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in Economy, Education, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Homelessness, Housing, Immigration, Labor, Land Use, Politics, WarThe world described by Stein and Barr bears little resemblance to that described by incumbent President Barack Obama and Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney.
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Gill Tract Farm Essential for Post-Peak Oil Food Security
Without food, we cannot survive and without local farms to grow and supply food in a post-peak oil world, the costs associated with traditional long-distance, oil-reliant food production will continue to soar and become unsustainable.
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Bay Area May Day Protest Action Marred by Pockets of Non-Occupy Violence
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in Economy, Education, Environment, Events, Healthcare, Homelessness, Housing, Immigration, Labor, Land Use, News, PoliticsBut May Day was also one in which thousands attended mostly peaceful, non-violent protests in support of immigrants, workers and others who comprise the 99 percent of Americans who feel they are at the mercy of an unregulated capitalist system run amok by unfettered greed and political corruption, a system that benefits the few over…