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Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark: “Let’s make our voices heard BEFORE the U.S. Congressional war vote. All out! Saturday, September 7

And I’d say before that, call, write, email your senators and representatives. Avalanche them. Tsunami them. Overwhelm their offices with the clarity and urgency of our message. NO . . . MORE . . . WAR!!! War is obsolete, the refuge of cowards. War degrades all who get dragged in, all the innocents — and […]

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Joanna Macy: “Our pain is the covering of our love for the world.”

Laura Bruno commented on a recent piece that I wrote about how I was still looking for the commentary that would move people out of their denied, paralyzed grief into action re: Fukushima. She wondered if I was familiar with the work of Joanna Macy. Of course, I was. But had I ever really stopped […]

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Whenever someone spouts the line, “GMO is necessary, to feed the world,” tell them no, and here’s why.

TO GM OR NOT TO GM? Evolution favours diversity and decentralisation. GM food favours monopoly. September/October 2013 by Satish Kumar resurgence.org In a recent speech, the UK government’s environment minister, Owen Paterson, promoted the idea that farmers should embrace genetically modified (GM) seeds in agriculture. Our minister – together with Monsanto – wants the world […]

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Frances Moore Lappe, on how to blast through the sense of powerlessness

As we continue to be riveted by the admittedly, possibly world-transforming kaleidoscope of perspectives on Syria, the current target of an Empire that appears to be flailing as it fades — including all the conflicting crosscurrents and players in this ongoing, possibly climactic, global human drama, let’s remember why we are here: not just to […]

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Obama’s “change of heart”: cynicism? weakness? or REAL.

Update: Forgot to mention: Please sign Congressman Alan Grayson’s petition (and note that the petition points out that stock for Raytheon, maker of Cruise missiles, rose 20% in the last two months . . .) As Grayson says: “Nobody wants this [war] except the military industrial complex.” dontattacksyria.com   A cursory look this morning at […]

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