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Mine - Story of a Sacred Mountain (Video - 16 min.)
The film documents the resistance of the Dongria Kondh, one of India's most remote tribes, as they face imminent destruction at the hands of Vedanta Resources, a London-based mining company. The tribe live in Orissa state's Niyamgiri hills and worship a mountain as a God. But Vedanta are intent on constructing a vast open-cast mine on their land, a move that will destroy their sacred mountain and with it everything they know.
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Mar 3, 2010, 4:50pm
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Police clash with anti-Olympics protesters
CBC News: "Anti-Olympics protesters clashed with police in downtown Vancouver on Friday night as the marchers tried to approach BC Place, where opening ceremonies for the 2010 Games were underway...Also see No 2010 Olympics on Stolen Native Land
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Feb 13, 2010, 2:05pm
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Host First Nations Bite the Olympic Hand
Zoe Blunt, The Dominion: "Hundreds of reserves across Canada are mired in abject poverty, and thousands make do without safe drinking water, housing, health care, employment and education. Conditions for Indigenous people have only deteriorated since Vancouver and Whistler won the Olympic bid...
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Feb 13, 2010, 1:56pm
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Americans Are Learning Medicine the Cuban Way
Cuba began educating American medical students after members of the Congressional Black Caucus met with Fidel Castro in 2000. Congressman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi told Castro about areas in his district that suffer from extreme doctor shortages. The Cuban president responded by promising scholarships for 500 Americans to attend medical school in Cuba...
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Feb 5, 2010, 11:39am
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Marijuana As a Cancer Cure?
"Nearly all of the evidence about cannabinoids as anticancer drugs comes from lab studies using cell cultures or animals with experimentally implanted tumors. The annals of medical research are littered with drugs that looked promising in the lab but didn't work in people. Still...
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Jan 26, 2010, 2:15pm
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ACORN's Real Crime: Empowering the Poor
Jim Hightower - ACORN helps the poor become political and economic players. That's why the money powers unleashed right-wing politics to go after ACORN with a blood lust...
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Jan 25, 2010, 11:52am
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When the Media Is the Disaster
"I don't believe in looting. The great majority of what happens you could call emergency requisitioning. Someone who could be you, someone in the kind of desperate circumstances ... takes necessary supplies to sustain human life in the absence of any alternative. Not only would I not call that looting, I wouldn't even call that theft.
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Jan 23, 2010, 2:47pm
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How America's Demented Politics Let the GOP Off the Hook for Their Giant Mess
Bill Moyers interviews Thomas Frank on how our short attention span has allowed conservatives to escape blame for their role in the economic meltdown...Before Obama, they turned a budget surplus into a deficit. They took us to war on fraudulent pretenses. They borrowed money to fight it. They presided over a stalemate in Afghanistan. They trashed the Constitution...
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Jan 19, 2010, 2:33pm
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How Corporate Branding has Taken Over America
Naomi Klein: "If there was ever a time to remember the lessons we learned at the turn of the millennium, it is now. One benefit of the international failure to regulate the financial sector, even after its catastrophic collapse, is that the economic model that dominates around the world has revealed itself not as "free market" but "crony capitalist" - politicians handing over public wealth to private players in exchange for political support.
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Jan 16, 2010, 1:52pm
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Avatar is Real: Indigenous Peoples are Being Displaced by Wars and Corporations
Avatar is real: Pandora exists in our planet and it's located in South and Central America, and Africa. The Na'vi peoples, the Indigenous peoples in those regions are being displaced and killed right now, in order to extract the natural resources laying underground. The names of places and peoples may be different in the movie, but the facts of reality are almost the same, like the Andean-inspired music of the film.
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Jan 16, 2010, 9:57am
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33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True, What Every Person Should Know
"What follows are some of these most shocking modern conspiracy theories that turned out true after thorough investigation by our society. Some through congressional hearings, others through investigative journalism. Many of these, however, were just admitted to by those involved. These are just 33 of them, and I still had a long list of others to add.
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Jan 3, 2010, 5:49pm
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Top 10 Events That Will Change the Way We Think About Marijuana
#1 Obama Administration: Don't Focus On Medical Marijuana Prosecutions...#2 Public Support For Legalizing Pot Hits All-Time High..#3 Lifetime Marijuana Use Associated With Reduced Cancer Risk..#4 AMA Calls For Review Of Marijuana's Prohibitive Status...#5 California: Lawmakers Hold Historic Hearing On Marijuana Legalization...
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Jan 1, 2010, 2:00pm
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Monopoly Capitalism Is the Root of All of America's Problems
"People have a really hard time understanding that a corporation is an institution we have licensed to govern a particularly economic activity...Wal-Mart is the Soviet system growing up right in the middle of the American system. It is top-down, authoritarian, non-democratic. It leads to the stripping out of all the systems, and it's rationalization without thought, purpose, or understanding.
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Dec 31, 2009, 12:30pm
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Top Ten Worst Things about the Bush Decade; Or, the Rise of the New Oligarchs
Juan Cole: 10. Stagnating worker wages and the emergence of a new monied aristocracy...9. Health and food insecurity increased for ordinary Americans...8. The environment became more polluted...1. The constitutional coup of 2000, in which Bush was declared the winner of an election he had lost, with the deployment of the most ugly racial and other low tricks in the ballot
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Dec 22, 2009, 4:03pm
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Howard Zinn & Bill Moyers: Right-Wing Demagogues & Progressive Resistance
BILL MOYERS: So, populism isn't really- and people's power, isn't really a left or right issue, is it? It's more us versus them, bottom versus top?
HOWARD ZINN: It's democracy. You know, democracy doesn't come from the top. It comes from the bottom. Democracy is not what governments do. It's what people do.
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Dec 15, 2009, 3:16pm
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