World-News: 07 September 2009

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/07-0

Activists Demand Real Change as Foreclosures Mount
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/06-0

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=trade+unions
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheryl+Gay+Stolberg
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steven+Greenhouse

rudkla - 7. Sep, 22:10

Caught in the crossfire: The Forgotten Casualties of War in Afghanistan

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/07

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rudkla - 7. Sep, 22:03

Join Borneo's Penan Indigenous Peoples in Standing up to Malaysian Rainforest Destruction

ACTION ALERT

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By Rainforest Rescue, https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/ with Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal, https://www.rainforestportal.org/ September 7, 2009

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: https://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=malaysia_penan_blockade

Malaysia is the world's leading rainforest destroying nation. Insist Malaysian authorities respect native customary land rights and boundaries of Penan's last remaining ancestral rainforest reserves; halt rainforest destruction in Sarawak for oil palm, pulp plantations and hydro-electric dams; and ensure rainforest destruction and abuse of indigenous rights by Malaysian companies end globally.

NOTE: After sending this protest you are forwarded to several crucial ongoing alerts, which we ask you to please send as well.

MORE INFORMATION AND TAKE ACTION NOW: https://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=malaysia_penan_blockade

DISCUSS THIS ALERT: https://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2009/09/alert_join_borneos_penan_indig.asp

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rudkla - 7. Sep, 18:11

Recession Over? Depends Who You Ask

Mark Brenner, Labor Notes: "Today's Great Recession should have been the curtain call for an economic model that has left most workers with less buying power than they had in the mid-1970s, swelled the ranks of the uninsured to 46 million, created income inequality not seen since the Great Depression, and left most of us drowning in debt. But apparently no one in Washington got the memo. The government's top economists have been preoccupied with nursing Wall Street back to health so that the speculators can continue on their merry way unchanged."

https://www.truthout.org/090609V?n

The CEO Pay Debate: Why Reform is Going Nowhere

Chuck Collins and Sam Pizzigati, The Institute For Policy Studies: "Would you let shareholders regulate their CEOs' reckless behavior? Your friendly local Fortune 500 company is dumping toxic chemicals into the river that runs through your town. You want the problem fixed. Who do you expect to do the fixing? The company's shareholders? Of course not. That same Fortune 500 company, you've just learned, is paying a woman who lives next door to you less than a man who does the same work? Who do you expect to end that discrimination? The company's shareholders? That thought would never enter your mind. No sensible American would expect shareholders, and shareholders alone, to fix problems like these. So why do we expect shareholders to fix executive pay?"

https://www.truthout.org/090609W?n

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rudkla - 7. Sep, 14:45

Art as Resistance

Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "Soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have tough truths to tell, and it has been well demonstrated that the establishment media does not want to broadcast these. Given the lack of an outlet for anti-war voices in the corporate media, many contemporary veterans and active-duty soldiers have embraced the arts as a tool for resistance, communication and healing. They have made use of a wide range of visual and performing arts - through theater, poetry, painting, writing, and other creative expression - to affirm their own opposition to the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq."

https://www.truthout.org/090609R?n

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veteran
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dahr+Jamail

rudkla - 7. Sep, 14:35