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Volunteering report (May 1st) Will K. 2010-05-01 7:09 PM
Still Looking for a clear path: Day and a half later I have a call back from from the government/BP hotline. They called back to correct the spelling of my name. No questions about my availability, location, ability to travel. I asked if they were putting people in the field yet, they dodged the first time, said yes the second, and then were unable to say where. This is the number, get on the list anyway: Oil Report Line/Volunteer Line – (866)-448-5816 I think we are all biting at the bit trying to figure out a way to help, and one of the sad truths for our wetlands is they aren't like a beach were you can run out and try and help. Protecting the wetlands takes time, planning, dedication, and legislation. So, how to help remains the question of the day. The organizations in alabama and Mississippi seem to be doing the best work so far. They are cleaning beaches, blocking inflow points for critical areas, they seem to be providing outlets for volunteers readily. For Louisiana wetlands I expect volunteer opportunities to open up in the next couple days as the horror unfolds, but until then the Bayous and Wetlands Hold us at bay from our hearts dream of helping to protect them from oil, just as they hold the storms back from our cities. A barrier hard passed. Here are some list of resources: (text/plain + 3 comments)

Et in Arcadia, Oil! Darwin BondGraham 2010-05-01 4:57 PM
The Cajun "paradise" lost in southern Louisiana. The entire Gulf Coast wetlands ecosystem is a delicate and profound balance of tides, winds, and ocean temperatures. It's almost cosmic. Tides push and pull vast and deep columns of water through narrow passes into lakes and bays and back out to the open ocean. This is a marine cardiovascular system on a continental scale, one supporting waters that roil with life. Winds move shallow layers of salt water toward the shore and push back with undercurrents of brackish and freshwater from lakes like Pontchartrain, Borgne, and Salvador. The coastal prairies and cypress swamps breath. Water temperatures and salt concentrations from the edge of the continental shelf and as close as the shallows of Chandeleur Sound and Barataria Bay trigger complex movements of sea life, telling them when to spawn and where to feed. Larger seasonal shifts provide signals to migratory birds, ushering them to land upon horizon-to-horizon beds of grass where they feed from the bounty all around. (text/html + 2 comments)

Governor Candidate Ask: Is Wall Street in the California Governor’s Race? Richard Perry 2010-04-30 11:02 PM
Two California governor candidates, Republican Candidate Steve Poizner and PFP Candidate Stewart Alexander are sharing the concerns of millions of Californians; how deep was Meg Whitman’s involvement during the period when she serve on the board of Goldman Sachs. Stewart Alexander says “California is in a deep financial crisis and Californians need to know how much did Goldman Sachs contributed to the state’s financial crisis and what part did Meg Whitman play.” (text/plain)

Free Job Enrollment Assistance Available Community Center of St Bernard 2010-04-29 9:12 PM
Get free job assistance enrollment from Catholic Charities on May 6, May 20 and June 3 at the Community Center of St Bernard, 1107 LeBeau St, Arabi from 10 AM until noon. (text/plain)

For a Proletarian and Communist May 1st! PCint 2010-04-29 2:16 PM
Workers! The general conditions of life and work have been deteriorating for years, becoming ever more intolerable. (text/plain)

The Truth about Crystal Meth Antonella Antonecchia 2010-04-29 1:31 AM
Crystal meth is short for crystal methamphetamine. Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs. It has many nicknames – ice or glass being the most common. (text/plain)

Art Exhibit Portrays a Haiti of Hope and Promotes the Right to Play Lisa Mansell 2010-04-28 8:15 PM

CLEARWATER: On Friday, April 30th, starting at 6pm, international photographers Gracia Bennish and Brad Kugler will showcasing their photos of Haiti at “For the Future/For the Children: Two Views of Haiti” exhibit at System Productions in downtown Clearwater. (34N. Garden Ave). (image/jpeg)

Deepshit Horizon: Earth Day began with a blow-out, has it finally ended with one? repost 2010-04-28 2:05 AM

Ironically, and tragically, this year's Earth Day celebrations coincided with another oil rig blow-out, this time offshore of Louisiana. Like other recent mining disasters, the explosion and sinking of the rig caused by a well blow-out has claimed the lives of at least eleven workers. (image/jpeg)

Postmodernism Is Dead Craig Louis Stehr 2010-04-27 5:15 PM
POEM FOR MAY DAY (text/plain)

BP boasts of record profits as men and sea creatures die in Gulf of Mexico D. Grant Haynes 2010-04-27 11:00 AM
Evo Morales was correct in his recent observation that capitalism is the main enemy of the Earth. (text/plain)

At Angola Prison, Does Jesus Christ Save? Stan Moody 2010-04-27 6:39 AM

Between the glowing press reports on Burl Cain's work, there are hints that gaining access to prison programming — education programs, for example — may be conditional on whether a prisoner is willing to embrace evangelical Christianity. (image/jpeg)

Privatization of Courthouse Security Awarded to G4S Wackenhut Draws Criticism Steve Schultze of the Journal Sentinel 2010-04-26 11:58 PM
Guy James, President of the Federal Contract Guards of America FCGOA said " the privatization of courthouse security awarded to G4S Wackenhut shows how the county can save money, however the need for tougher background checks of all private contract guards needs to be addressed at both the federal, state and county levels to ensure the safety of all who may enter these buildings are protected". (text/html)

Feds Ask Questions about GEO Group, Formally Known as Wackenhut Prison Deal Whitney Ray 2010-04-25 9:47 PM
According to our source the feds may be searching to see if Sansom received any kickbacks from the company. GEO Group, formally known as Wackenhut, gave Sansom’s campaign 500 hundred dollars for his 2007 campaign. (text/html)

The Deepwater Horizon disaster D. Grant Haynes 2010-04-25 9:54 AM
The Deepwater Horizon rig disaster underlines again the dangers to men and the environment inherent in offshore drilling. The Obama plan for drilling on the East Coast should be abandoned. (text/plain)

The USA Took My Freedom Away scott huminski 2010-04-23 11:09 PM
The U.S. Government’s attack on it’s citizens and the Bill of Rights. A Music Video. (text/plain)

"The People Speak" Showing in New Orleans Gimena Gordillo 2010-04-22 8:56 PM
For the first time, The People Speak, narrated by Howard Zinn, will be screened in New Orleans. (text/plain)

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY RECOGNIZES FIVE GROUPS FOR NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK AT HISTORIC FORT Pat Harney 2010-04-22 2:24 AM
The Church of Scientology recognizes the dedicated actions of the volunteers from five groups who have committed themselves to senseless acts of kindness. (text/plain)

Sarah Palin Versus A Dumb Blonde Standard Andy Amigo 2010-04-21 9:53 PM
Too bad Sarah Palin is not blonde. Fore if she were bleached, whenever she said anything remotely stupid or vapid, or her words could be twisted as such, she would be called on it. But more importantly some “male” dumbos of the Tea Party coalition, that is those who have sprung to pay her fees to speak at their conventions, too could eventually get it. They too, some of them that is, would finally see beyond her “charm,” and look for someone more than a playboy bunny to inspire their political consciousness. (text/plain)

Holocaust Museum For Persecuted Heretics? Mike Mitch 2010-04-21 12:37 AM
Verily, if the origin of the word ‘holocaust’ meant ‘whole’ + ‘burning’ then surely the history of the persecution and killing of pagans and various heretical sects would qualify to this nomenclature? After all, how many supposed witches, were tortured and/or burned over the centuries? How many believers in the ‘wrong’ religions or denominations, according to those fanatics who thought themselves within ‘thee’ singularly right religion, were persecuted and murdered? We don’t know any kind of exact number but it is a frightening reality to behold nevertheless. (text/plain)

Deciphering the media campaign against Nicaragua Sugar Estates and the Pellas Group Jacob Parker 2010-04-20 9:10 PM
A stone in the shoe In a recent article, the most conspicuous organizer of ANAIRC´s disinformation campaign against Nicaragua Sugar and the Pellas Group (Grupo Pellas) and the boycott against Flor de Caña finally decided to make an incursion into a new territory, without completely abandoning his repetitive disparaging epithets, in an attempt to give a new appearance to ANAIRC’s claims and make them seem serious. Let’s carefully examine what this is all about. (text/plain)

Truth About Drugs Documentary Paola Martinez 2010-04-20 5:43 PM

The Truth About Drugs documentary, produced by the Foundation for a Drug Free World, was screened at Baywalk Muvico in Downtown St. Petersburg to an enthusiastic audience of over 65 teens and judges (image/jpeg)

Hate Is Not A Family Value; American Apartheid Shawnna Armstrong 2010-04-20 4:38 PM
"The news that the United States tortured prisoners in the war on terror has brought shame to the nation, yet little has been written about the doctors and psychologists at these prisons. In Oath Betrayed, medical ethics expert and physician Steven H. Miles tells how doctors, psychologists, and medics cleared prisoners for interrogation, advised and monitored abuse, falsified documents—including death certificates—and were largely silent as the scandal unfolded. This updated and expanded paperback edition gives newly uncovered details about the policies that engage clinicians in torture. It discusses the ongoing furor over psychologists' participating in interrogations. Most explosively this new edition shows how interrogation psychologists may have moved from information-gathering to coercive experiments, warning all of us about a new direction in U.S. policy and military medicine—a direction that not so long ago was unthinkable." (text/plain)

Hate Is Not A Family Value; American Apartheid Shawnna Armstrong 2010-04-20 4:35 PM
"The news that the United States tortured prisoners in the war on terror has brought shame to the nation, yet little has been written about the doctors and psychologists at these prisons. In Oath Betrayed, medical ethics expert and physician Steven H. Miles tells how doctors, psychologists, and medics cleared prisoners for interrogation, advised and monitored abuse, falsified documents—including death certificates—and were largely silent as the scandal unfolded. This updated and expanded paperback edition gives newly uncovered details about the policies that engage clinicians in torture. It discusses the ongoing furor over psychologists' participating in interrogations. Most explosively this new edition shows how interrogation psychologists may have moved from information-gathering to coercive experiments, warning all of us about a new direction in U.S. policy and military medicine—a direction that not so long ago was unthinkable." (text/plain)

Hate Is Not A Family Value; American Apartheid Starfishgirl 2010-04-20 4:19 PM
"The news that the United States tortured prisoners in the war on terror has brought shame to the nation, yet little has been written about the doctors and psychologists at these prisons. In Oath Betrayed, medical ethics expert and physician Steven H. Miles tells how doctors, psychologists, and medics cleared prisoners for interrogation, advised and monitored abuse, falsified documents—including death certificates—and were largely silent as the scandal unfolded. This updated and expanded paperback edition gives newly uncovered details about the policies that engage clinicians in torture. It discusses the ongoing furor over psychologists' participating in interrogations. Most explosively this new edition shows how interrogation psychologists may have moved from information-gathering to coercive experiments, warning all of us about a new direction in U.S. policy and military medicine—a direction that not so long ago was unthinkable." (text/plain)

A30 MayDay Action Trouble 2010-04-19 7:46 PM

A30 Call for Actions Against the Banking System (image/jpeg)

St Bernard Health Center offers free healthy eating tips Community Center of St Bernard 2010-04-19 1:32 AM
Free tips on Healthy Eating at the Community Center of St Bernard, 1107 LeBeau St, Arabi on April 17 from 10 AM until noon. (text/plain)

Seabrook Nuclear Officers Votes AGAINST UGSOA and Their Acting President Desiree Sullivan UGSOA Member News 2010-04-18 11:52 PM
With the upcoming UGSOA International election coming in may "This Seabrook Nuclear Election Clearly Sends a NO Confidence Vote AGAINST Desiree Sullivan and the Future Existence of UGSOA" stated a UGSOA member who is thinking of challenging Desiree Sullivan for the presidency in may of 2010 (text/html)

Rwandan President Paul Kagame wants a safer Rwanda. . . safer for whom? Ann Garrison and Godwin Agaba 2010-04-18 2:47 PM

Rwandan journalist Godwin Agaba writes: What is clear though is that Paul Kagame, having commanded the forces that he says ended the genocide and helped restore order in chaotic Rwanda, has embarked on a self-destructing campaign. He will stop at nothing to make himself clear and louder to all that Rwanda belongs to him and only he knows what is good for the country. He does not even appear bothered by the idea of ruling the country as if it is some family ranch, because according to what he knows, he is popular, charismatic and knows his country’s history better than anyone else. And who are we to challenge him? What exactly do we know? To him we are rejects who should either shut up or put up with whatever nonsense is being paraded as long as we rise up at the end of the day to toss to the monsieur – only this time, in English! (image/jpeg)

Who Wants to Take over the Education System? Ezra Niesen, Certified Instructor 2010-04-18 3:15 AM

I was a volunteer in the War on Terror and I come from a large family of teachers. A lot of people are trying to do something about the education system. This is a blueprint of science education in America anyone can use to prove how the "education" system trains Americans to depend on imperialism. (image/jpeg)

Descifrando la campaña mediática en contra de Nicaragua Sugar Estates – Grupo Pellas Jacobo Parker 2010-04-15 6:52 PM
Una piedra en el zapato En un reciente artículo, el más conspicuo de los organizadores de la campaña de desinformación que en contra de Nicaragua Sugar, del Grupo Pellas y de Boicot a Flor de Caña impulsa ANAIRC, se decidió finalmente a incursionar en un terreno novedoso para él: sin abandonar totalmente los repetitivos epítetos descalificadores, trata de innovar, pretendiendo darle un cariz de seriedad a sus planteamientos. Adentrémonos con interés para ver de qué se trata todo esto. (text/plain)

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