[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 [...]
Archive For July, 2009
Signing election petitions goes high-tech
[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 [...]
Live Feed of the Green Party – US Annual Meeting
(Feed will be live during meeting events, recorded other times.) At the Green Party NY web site. Tags: green party, meeting <BR/>
What would MLK say?
[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 [...]
Robert McNamara, Architect of Vietnam War, Dies at 93
[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 [...]
Money To Burn: CL & P, UI Have Millions In Energy-Efficiency Funds To Offer
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 [...]
Interior Dept. wants 100GW of solar power on federal land
[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. [...]
Israel kidnaps, detains peace activists ~ Mairead Maguire speaks from gaol
Tags: Israel, Mairead Maguire, Gaza, cynthia mckinney <BR/>
Nintendo gives girls “life lessons” on how to achieve their social beauty standards
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 in [...]