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[From: The Seattle Times ]
By Jerry Hirsch
Los Angeles Times
More than a billion dollars a day, $45 million an hour, almost $340 for every living American — that’s what Exxon Mobil reported in third-quarter revenue Thursday.
For the oil giant, that translated to $9.9 billion in net income.
The financial results drew outrage from politicians and consumer advocates [...]

[From Educational Justice]

Thank you sister Rosa for bringing struggle to our movements and inspiring us to fight on!
Thank you for not just taking on racism and segregation just that one day in Montgomery, Alabama, Dec. 1. 1955. But also for strategizing with E.D. Nixon, organizers and community groups, before and after that day, and for [...]

By Robert Roy BrittLiveScience Managing Editor
Biological activity in some Arctic lakes has ratcheted up dramatically over the past 150 years as a result of global warming, according to a new study.
In six lakes, researchers dug deep into the sediment to measure the amount "chlorophyll-a," the main pigment involved in photosynthesis. When plants convert sunlight [...]

[From Green Party UK]
The Green Party today expressed shock and concern as satellite pictures revealed that the destruction of the Amazon rainforest has been underestimated by as much as 60%.
Advanced satellite images reveal the true extent of the damage caused by selective logging, the practise where one or two trees are logged leaving the surrounding [...]

[From feministing]
According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), women in New Orleans are more likely to be impoverished and heading single-parent families: The poverty rate among female-headed families — which comprise 56 Women of New Orleans and the Gulf…
Continue reading Women, single moms disproportionately affected by Katrina at feministing

[From swissinfo - Switzerland's news and information platform]
The residents of Bülach in canton Zurich are casting text, internet, postal and ballot box votes on proposals to introduce a 30kmph speed restriction for vehicles. The result will be known on October 30.
The pilot project will then be extended to Schlieren and Bertschikon, also in canton Zurich, [...]

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