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The Power of Bravery
Hydeia Broadbent:1984-2014 HIV/AIDS activist Hydeia Broadbent, known for her inspirational talks as a young child, dies at 39 Her appearance on a Magic Johnson TV special at 7 years old gave voice to those […]
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Seriously? Freedom of Information “Control Act”
Source: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
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The Hidden Truth: Why Environmental and Labor Laws Don’t Work
Source: Thomas Linzey, CDER: Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights PM Press: On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability: The Community Rights Movement in the United States Production: Mobilized News
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Greenland’s Green Tax: A Win for All
Source: Positive News, Mobilized Research Production: Mobilized
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How to resist major corporations while enabling healthier local economies?
A network of over 250 social movements, civil society organizations (CSOs), trade unions and communities Fighting Monopoly Power: How States and Cities Can Beat Back Corporate Control and Build Thriving Communities, Big Box Toolkit Investigating […]
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Why Capital Punishment?
Courtesy: ACLU
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How to use non electric energy where you are
One strategy being pursued to address the climate crisis has been to shift from fossil fuels to electric power as the energy source for common activities. But electric power has environmental costs, too, even when […]
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How to go Carbon Neutral in your Community
“Going Carbon Neutral” campaigns not only push for reduced energy usage and carbon emissions, they also strengthen community. The small town of Ashton Hayes in the UK launched the concept by conducting an audit […]
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How to Support fundamental change of the financial system.
Local finance and banking alternatives can help communities and local economies, but their impacts will not be big enough to fundamentally remake the global financial system. For that, policy changes that extend beyond the local level […]
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News Dissector Danny Schechter on The Need for a new media system
“A well informed public is the most powerful natural resource of all.”
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High schoolers build solar car that can go 70 miles an hour
Climate Connections is a 90-second daily (M – F) module that moves climate change away from debate and focuses on how it’s impacting listeners’ lives. The features report on what diverse people and organizations are […]
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Veterans for Peace: Remembering Artist and Activist Tom Lewis
Veterans for Peace:VFP member Paul Gingrich shares his memories of Tom Lewis – artist, peace activist and one of the Catonsville 9 and his efforts since 2008 to produce a documentary on Tom Lewis […]
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Puppets Teaching Kids About Climate Change
Puppets teach Minnesota kids about climate change One puppet show tells the story of a wasteful king and how he learns to live more sustainably. Dawn Pape Climate Connections is a 90-second program that moves […]
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Understanding: LGBT+ at Risk from the Climate Crisis
Why LGBT+ folks are at higher risk of climate death than straight folks, the risks women face in disasters, and why we shouldn’t ignore silly arguments denying climate change. XR Radio uploads a half […]
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Uncovering the History of the Massacre of Black Wall Street
In the first of our 3 part series leading up to Black History Month, we focus in on how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Race Massacre. KalaLea, producer and host of the […]
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The Global Gag Rule is making a comeback?
Republicans in Congress are refusing to re-authorize AIDS funding abroad unless the global gag rule is incorporated into the legislation. Program goes into the origin and effects of this rule, which was at its highest […]
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Ecojustice: Restoring Landscape
Restoring the Landscape: Indigenized Futures & the Land Back Movement First we share a report from Yurok country, in the Pacific Northwest. The largest dam removal in U.S. history has entered a critical phase, with […]
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Mining: Documenting the Undocumented
A warming world is pushing us off the snow cliff. Snow drought is increasing. Dry fire-filled summers with low rivers and crop loss surely follow. We talk with Lead Author Alexander Gottlieb from Dartmouth. Satellites […]
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Why fertilizer from sewage is a bad idea
New York Sierra Club’s Tracy Frisch talks about the “forever” chemicals known as PFAS, and why spreading sewage sludge on farmland, as recently recommended by NY Governor Hochul, is a really, really bad idea that […]
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Ecojustice: How to Embrace our Wild Predatory Relatives
In this industrialized country, we have had a war on wild what we call “predators,” helicopter gunners shooting wolves to protect caribou herds in Alaska, or taking them out in Idaho to benefit elk — […]