Jul
31
Israeli Cosmetic Company Is About to Learn It Can’t Cover Up Its Role in the Occupation
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[From AlterNet]
By Nancy Kricorian
Ahava is an Israeli profiteer exploiting the natural resources of occupied Palestine to sell its exotic beauty products.
CodePink protests AHAVA in Tel Aviv
As the dust settled on the destroyed homes, schools and lives in the aftermath of Israel’s assault on Gaza earlier this year, mainstream human rights groups from Amnesty International [...]
Jul
31
Signing election petitions goes high-tech
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[From The Columbus Dispatch]
May 26, 2008
BY ALAN JOHNSON
Photo: SHARI LEWISDISPATCH
A signature made with this electronic pen can be verified against voter rolls.
Technology finally has caught up with the decades-old pen-and-paper process used to gather signatures of registered voters to place issues on the ballot.
A new high-tech system is being pioneered locally by the Ohio Petition [...]
Jul
30
Beerplomancy
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Jul
24
(Feed will be live during meeting events, recorded other times.)
At the Green Party NY web site.
Jul
14
Nintendo gives girls “life lessons” on how to achieve their social beauty standards
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Really, Nintendo? Check out Wired’s take on new games for girls released in 2009, in which all but one (“The Daring Game for Girls”) is about fashion, boys, princesses, modeling, and more fashion. Well, there is a detective game, but you solve mysteries using your “feminine sixth sense,” so I wouldn’t necessarily put that [...]
Jul
14
What would MLK say?
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[From Not Your Average Feminist]
What would MLK say?
Image via Wikipedia
Reverend Eric Lee, leader of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has been a vocal supporter of marriage equality. During the Prop 8 campaigns in California, he attended numerous No on 8 rallies while working especially close with the Courage Campaign.
During an [...]
Jul
6
[See also Noam Chomsky on Robert McNamara from Class Warfare. -RS]
By Thomas W. Lippman
Special to The Washington Post
Robert Strange McNamara, the former secretary of defense whose record as a leading executive of industry and a chieftain of foreign financial aid was all but erased from public memory by his reputation as the primary architect of [...]
Jul
5
Money To Burn: CL & P, UI Have Millions In Energy-Efficiency Funds To Offer
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Image by 80sAustin via Flickr
By LYNN DOAN, The Hartford Courant
Late last year, Connecticut Light & Power Co. was desperate for energy conservation money.
Several programs it runs for the state, which pay for power-saving improvements from lightbulbs in homes to tinted windows in office parks, were oversubscribed. The company had promised $10 million it didn’t have [...]
Jul
5
Interior Dept. wants 100GW of solar power on federal land
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[From Ars Technica]
The US Department of Interior has announced that it will be using some of its stimulus money to do a single environmental review for the best 24 solar sites on western public lands, clearing the way for more than 100GW of solar capacity. That’s enough to power 30 percent of US homes.
By John [...]





