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04 March 2010
Book Review: Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
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Marilyn Howard
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
By Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Toreno
St. Martin’s Press 2009
298 Page
s Prologue, Afterward

Even without its...
27 February 2010
David v Goliath, Vermont style
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Charlotte Dennett, After Downing Street
A driving snowstorm could not keep Vermonters away from the statehouse in Montpelier yesterday as the Vermont Senate convened a historic debate and then voted on the future of the state’s aging nuclear power plant.

Some...
16 February 2010
Book Review: More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
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Marilyn Howard
More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
by William Julius Wilson

It has been decades since it was fashionable to talk about the poor in the United States, especially if they are black. The last...
07 February 2010
Really inconvenient truth
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Saul Landeau
“The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration show…. 2009 was the second warmest year since 1880, when modern temperature...
15 January 2010
Israel and Palestine - Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations
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Jim Miles
This is a thought provoking if not fully developed work on the ongoing situation in Palestine/Israel. Avi Shlaim has compiled a set of his writings from previous publications that in a broad way cover the events of the region, with a brief...
01 January 2010
System change -- not climate change: A People's Declaration from Klimaforum09
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Klimaforum09
SUMMARY

There are solutions to the climate crisis. What people and the planet need is a just and sustainable transition of our societies to a form that will ensure the rights of life and dignity of all peoples and deliver a...

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