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The Aborigines who've walked for 40,000 years
"Aborigines have handed down songs and legends about their lands for generations. Today they form an unbroken link to a mythical past – and a key to the future...Imagine a beginning, when man and woman first named the world. A "Songline" or "Dreaming Track" in the Australian outback can still be walked...
Mar 8, 2010, 10:54am
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Racism in America: Hurricane Katrina to the US/Mexico border
Brenda Norrell: New Orleans: After Hurricane Katrina, police officers shot six unarmed blacks, killing two people, as they walked on Danziger Bridge. One police officer confessed to attempting to cover up the crimes with planted evidence, a gun...West Texas: the story of the volunteers who carried the remains of a migrant out because the authorities were too out of shape...
Mar 6, 2010, 10:26am
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Women's History Month: Remembering Vietnamese Female Freedom Fighters
Dennis Rahkonen: "Having already fought in two wars against foreign aggressors, Vietnamese females played a pivotal role in beating the third. Beyond involvement in direct combat, they transported war equipment, medicine, and food to the frontlines, and took over traditional male jobs to free more men for battle. They also participated in clandestine and specialized activities requiring remarkable courage...
Mar 5, 2010, 12:08pm
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US: Leaking a Trail of Toxic Racism
Brenda Norrell: "Secret and blatant toxic dumping on Native Americans and along the border"
EL PASO - Asarco's copper smelting plant is a monument to environmental racism, a visual proclamation of how corporations poison communities. By locating in downtown El Paso, on the border ...
Mar 3, 2010, 11:38am
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Remembering Wounded Knee '73
Carter Camp, Ponca Nation AIM: "In some areas of conflict between our people and those we signed treaties with, it is best to negotiate or "work within the system" but, because our struggle is one of survival, there are also times when a warrior must stand fast even at the risk of one's life...Our land and sacred sites are threatened as never before even our sacred Mother herself is faced with unnatural warming caused by extreme greed....
Mar 1, 2010, 11:38am
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Whale Talk!
From the book - Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden Story of Animal Resistance: "Resistance in zoos and aquariums, in truth, is anything but unusual...These creatures resist work, and can occasionally land a counterpunch or two of their own."
Feb 27, 2010, 12:21pm
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Why Growing Numbers of Baby Boomers & the Elderly Are Smoking Pot
"More and more of the nation's 78 million Boomers are discovering they'd rather smoke marijuana than reach for a pharmaceutical....As early as 2004, an AARP poll found that 72 percent of its members (all 50-plus, with the lion's share over 65) supported marijuana for medical purposes
Feb 26, 2010, 12:37pm
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The Aid Racket
Ashley Smith documents how the NGOs in Haiti have provided the means for the U.S. government to circumvent the Haitian state and impose neoliberal polices..."While some NGOs like Partners in Health have done and are doing amazing work to provide services for quake victims, overall, the catastrophe in Haiti revealed the worst aspects of the U.S. government and the NGO aid industry.
Feb 24, 2010, 12:28pm
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Uranium Mining Begins at Grand Canyon
Klee Benally: GRAND CANYON, Ariz. -- In defiance of legal challenges and a U.S. Government moratorium, Canadian company Denison Mines has started mining uranium on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. According to the Arizona Daily Sun the mine has been operating since December 2009.
Feb 23, 2010, 11:32am
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Another Side of a Movie Legend
Joe Allen: "What's been omitted from the many plays and biographies about Tallulah Bankhead are the courageous stands she took against Jim Crow in American theater, and in support of campaigns to stop lynching, expose the horrors of the Southern sharecropping system and defend accused murderer James Hickman.
Feb 21, 2010, 1:41pm
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The Year Of The Tiger
"The Year of the Tiger, 2010, in the Hsia calendar, is symbolized by two elements – with metal sitting on top of wood. According to the cycle of birth and destruction, which governs the inter-relationship between the elements, metal is the destroyer of wood and so they are on the destructive cycle and have conflict relationship...
Feb 14, 2010, 3:19pm
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State of Denial: Robert Fisk searches for Peace in Israel
Can peace in the Middle East be achieved while both Israelis and Palestinians refuse to give ground? Robert Fisk takes a road trip through a divided land, from Ben-Gurion's Tel Aviv villa to Jerusalem, Bethlehem and the besieged Gaza Strip
Feb 11, 2010, 11:07am
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Uranium Mining In The Black Hills
"The planned uranium mine site in the southern Black Hills can impact four aquifers. Powertech, Inc. USA plans to begin uranium extraction in 2011 and operate for 15 years in the permit area of 10,580 acres located in Dewey and Burdock Counties, north of Edgemont, SD. PT plans to drill 4000-8000 wells to a depth of 400-800 feet...
Feb 6, 2010, 3:30pm
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There's real hope from Haiti and it's not what you expect
Johann Hari: "When people are living so close to the edge, even small increases in prices can break them. The IMF systematically disregards the fact that every country that has lifted itself out of poverty has done the opposite of its commands... For the first time, the IMF was stopped from shafting a poor country – by a rebellion here in the rich world.
Feb 5, 2010, 10:47am
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I Call It Murder
Cynthia McKinney: "They shot this Black man in his genitals and in his back. It sounds like a hate crime to me. How else could one describe it? Well, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it was self-defense. But how many times have we heard self-defense by cops used as a cop out?
Feb 1, 2010, 3:36pm
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