Operation Zero Tolerance Still Needs You
Dear Friend of Sea Shepherd, Thank you so much for your support throughout Operation Zero Tolerance, it has been unbelievable. The Institute of Cetacean Research, the...
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Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper: Transform Your Public Spaces Now
A low-cost, high-impact incremental framework for improving your community in short order Via Project for Public Spaces “Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper” (LQC) describes...
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Detroit Leads the Way on Place-Centered Revitalization
You may have heard about downtown Detroit’s big comeback story. Campus Martius has become one of America’s great urban squares. Demand for housing has...
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What Steubenville Tells Us About Rape Culture
Here’s the thing about rape culture. It’s scary. Via Collectiveactiondc.org It reminds us that sexual assault necessarily involves the dehumanization of victims,...
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We’re taking the fight to MONSANTO. Are you in?
Friends, Last year, you joined us as we occupied biotech giant Monsanto headquarters across the country and in St. Louis at Monsanto’s home base. Later in the year,...
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Don’t Tell Us Fairytales
The armed conflict between the Kurdish insurgency and Turkish forces has killed around 40,000 people since 1984. Via Al Jazeera Trabzon, known for its Turkish identity...
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UN ordered to compensate whistleblower
The United Nations has been ordered to pay a former employee $65,000 in a lawsuit that has raised questions about the UN’s commitment to protecting whistleblowers...
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Citizens’ campaign to arrest Blair continues
Blair’s schedule is now a closely guarded secret to avoid protesters who stalk his public appearances [AFP] London, United Kingdom- It was only...
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Corruption in Malaysia laid bare as investigation catches Sarawak’s ruling elite on camera
A new investigation by Global Witness today reveals the systemic corruption and illegality at the heart of government in Sarawak, Malaysia’s largest state. A film,...
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Time to take a stand against the NRA
“LBJ LBJ, how many kids have you killed today?” During our days at Student magazine, this is what we used to chant outside of the US Embassy in an attempt to...
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How to Map the New Economy in Your City
Groups all over the world are resisting the status quo of profit maximization by putting society’s happiness, health and the Earth first. This work, though,...
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What Can We Learn from the Bike-Sharing World Map?
Though I’ve used bike-sharing programs in three different countries (Spain, America and Canada), it wasn’t until I saw a news story about a bike-sharing...
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Japan’s Jaded Public Pushes for Nuclear Truth Post-Fukushima
Posted 15 March 2013 7:06 GMT. Written byAyumi Nakajima via GLOBAL VOICES ONLINE Two years after the powerful earthquake and resulting tsunami off...
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Stopping Rape Starts At Home: How Not to Raise A Rapist
There are two uncomfortable realities about sexual assault in America. By Danielle Belton for Ebony.com No matter who it happens to (male, female, teen, adult, elderly...
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Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped
Zerlina Maxwell is a political analyst and staff writer for The Loop 21. You can follow her on Twitter: @ZerlinaMaxwell Read more at EBONY...
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5 Ways We Can Teach Men Not to Rape
Zerlina Maxwell is a political analyst and soon-to-be attorney. You can follow her on Twitter @ZerlinaMaxwell. Read more at EBONY...
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Teaching Men Not to Rape: Survivor Zerlina Maxwell Defies Threats After Speaking Out
Over the past week, political analyst Zerlina Maxwell has received racially fueled death threats for speaking out against rape. Maxwell, who is a rape survivor, appeared...
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Girl Scouts Start Change.org Petition for GMO Free Girl Scout Cookies
Do you have any idea how far your activism is going? You are not only helping to ignite necessary changes in the food supply today, you are paving way for change for...
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Youth are teaching dialogue skills in Cairo
Cairo – Two years after the Egyptian people took to the streets demanding an end to the dictatorial regime of the former president Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians are now...
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Start accepting credit cards today…with your phone
Square.com has created a revolutionary new technology through which you can process credit cards with your phone. All you have to do is register online at square.com and...
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Maine Town Declares Food Sovereignty
Sedgwick, Maine has done what no other town in the United States has done. The town unanimously passed an ordinance giving its citizens the right “to produce, process,...
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Money for People: Grillo’s Populist Plan for Italy
Default on the public debt, nationalization of the banks, and a citizen dividend could actually save the Italian economy. Via Nationofchange.org Comedian Beppe...
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Our common ground of suffering (and why not to be star struck)
Something happens when someone moves into the public eye. Other people think Spotlight Person has it all together....
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Skateistan November 2012 News!
Welcome! Welcome to the fourth issue of our quarterly newsletter! As always, it’s been a crazy couple of months filled with excitement,...
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How GMOs can be beaten
I just released an article on Huffington Post with an update on some big news in the struggle to reclaim our food systems. Here are a few highlights: Following an...
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Future Policy Award 2012 goes to Palau
In the small Micronesian Republic local people live in peace with sharks / Exemplary policies from Namibia and the Philippines win Silver Awards New York, 26 September...
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Russia bans use and import of Monsanto GMO corn following study
Following the groundbreaking French study that graphically linked the lifetime consumption of Monsanto’s GMO corn in rats to massive tumors and direct organ...
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via GRAIN: http://www.grain.org/e/4572 LVC, GRAIN, ETC Group, FoEI, MMM, CLOC, Re:Common | 14 September 2012 | Other publications 14 September 2012 La Via Campesina...
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Into the Heart of Guatemala
What I saw and what I experienced in Guatemala are more amazing than all I could express through words. Guatemala, has settled in my heart ever since. by Lola Zhang for...
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20 Must-see U.S. Co-working Spaces
Coworking spaces are a really cool option for a lot of workers that, for whatever reason, don’t really fit in to a traditional office space....
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Sam Muir goes Open Source Everything!
Sam Muirhead will have to turn his rather non-handy hands to all forms of making and DIY as he attempts to live without proprietary products for a year. If you...
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UN Captain Ban Ki Moon on INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY
UNITED NATIONS. The Secretary-General – MESSAGE ON INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY DOWNLOAD in arabic, chinese, english, french, russian, spanish. 12 August 2012 ...
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US military scandal: A culture of rape?
Two US air force trainers have been sentenced in connection with a widening sexual abuse scandal at one of the busiest military training centers in the nation. Via Al...
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GMOs cause animals to lose their ability to reproduce, Russian scientists discover
A study presented at the Days of Defense Against Environmental Hazards in Russia has unveiled once again the implicit dangers associated with the consumption of...
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Punks vs. Putin: How ‘Pussy Riot’ Managed to Give Putin His Biggest Political Headache Yet
“For two very full, very long days in Moscow, I have talked constantly to people about Pussy Riot. About how, back in February, three young women from a feminist...
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How Arduino Extends the Limits of Imagination
The microcontroller and software platform Arduino is an open-source interface between the physical and the digital. It’s a very simple computer with sensors...
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Scientific Gerrymandering of Boundaries of Overpopulation Debate Review of The Royal Society report – People and the Planet
Here’s another insightful article by Tony Judge. Please visit this link to see the original article. Introduction The Royal Society has published the results of a...
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Farmlandgrab.org weekly- Making a Difference
Read the current newsletter from farmlandgrab.org here . We recommend readers to subscribe to their newsletter to receive more about this important issue.This...
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0.1% GMOs, But Also Only 3.7% Organic In Europe.
Public resistance to genetically modified crops has ensured that the area grown in Europe in 2011 remained at 0.1 per cent of all arable land, shows figures released...
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10 Demands for Concrete Proof by We the Peoples of the World
Thanks to Tony Judge for this amazing article! Produced in a period when the USA is demanding concrete evidence from Iran that it is halting efforts to produce ...
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