Washington, DC - As the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change opened today in Poznan, Poland, grassroots climate activists took over the Washington DC office of Environmental Defense. The activists stated that they had targeted ED, one of the largest environmental organizations in the world, because of the organization’s key role in promoting the discredited approach of carbon trading as a solution to climate change.

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The Palestinian Summer Celebration 2009
IS an annual program organized by Siraj Center for Holy Land Studies in Bethlehem Palestine www.sirajcenter.org
hosting people from all over the world, living with local families or guest houses, learning Arabic and History at Bethlehem University, volunteering with local community organizations and tour all over Palestine.

Although Bush got his Status of Forces agreement through Iraq's puppet parliment, the war is nowhere near over! Last week was a brutal time for US forces and their allies in Occupied Iraq. This climaxed in a rocket attack on the Green Zone
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Rahm Emmanuel? Tom Daschle? Eric Holder? HILLARY, f'crissakes? If you're still wondering – no, you're not the only one marveling in awe at the number and quickness of the old Clinton mobsters and liberal interventionists crawling out from under their rocks to score cushy gigs with the incoming Change Administration. Have any Hope'n'Change voters out there begun to sober up and wonder if, by voting against a third term of Bush, you ended up with a third term of Clinton, except without Bubba himself – or, perhaps, even worse…? Yes, now, at last, the truth can be told – your cartoonist has gazed into the future, and it ain't pretty…

Let's Unite Now! Peak Oil, Resource Depletion, Climate Change, and Over Population. These problems really are imminently solvable, but only if we are able to perceive them as problems. Entropy Pawsed < www.EntropyPawsed.org >and Peace Communities < www.PeaceCommunities.org > are working to unite people to help to solve these problems.

Activists release spy documents; encourage participation in two events this week focused on illegal searches, raids, and spying.

An ethical farce

After an animal rights protest with graphic images of force fed ducks calling for the boycott of 'SALT'-an upscale Baltimore restaurant serving 'foie gras', Baltimore cops handcuff a protester, and arrest a reporter filming the scene and an eye witness who protested their action...

Indirect Taxation of packrats

Fri Nov 28 was Buy Nothing day-the day after Thanksgiving.Driving this point home, as many as 40 animal rights protesters drove shoppers away at Andriana's Furs, four fur-selling department stores, and HLS-supplying Staples. In addition, Marlene Nicholson of Barclays got a large and disruptive protest at her home.


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