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International trade agreements force the U.S. and other participting countries to "harmonize" food and envrironmental safety standards to the lowest common denominator. Often these agreements are negotiated behind closed doors, shutting out Congress and the public, while granting corporations and trade associations a seat at the table. It's no surprise that these agreements give transnational corporations "special rights", allowing companies to challenge individual countries' environmental, worker and food safety laws and regulations.
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June 25, 2006
San Francisco
ONE of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s family mementos is a boyhood photo of himself in the Oval Office with his uncle President John F. Kennedy. Then 9, Mr. Kennedy who is still known as Bobby had just given the president a spotted salamander in a small vase. The salamander appears to be dead.
"He does not look well," President Kennedy told Bobby as they observed the slimy pet. The president is prodding it with a pen, to no avail. "I was in denial," Bobby Kennedy said, explaining that he had probably doomed the salamander by keeping it in chlorinated water. Read more
ONE of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s family mementos is a boyhood photo of himself in the Oval Office with his uncle President John F. Kennedy. Then 9, Mr. Kennedy who is still known as Bobby had just given the president a spotted salamander in a small vase. The salamander appears to be dead.
"He does not look well," President Kennedy told Bobby as they observed the slimy pet. The president is prodding it with a pen, to no avail. "I was in denial," Bobby Kennedy said, explaining that he had probably doomed the salamander by keeping it in chlorinated water. Read more
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June 22, 2006
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A Few Ideas About Building a Movement
This is the talk Peter Montague gave June 10 at the national precaution conference in Baltimore. The original PowerPoint slides can be found here. The slides were accompanied by a longer printed handout and a list of potential allies that we could join with to develop a movement for precaution and prevention.
Getting to Prevention and Precaution: Building a Movement
This is the printed handout that accompanied Peter Montague's PowerPoint talk, "A Few Ideas about Building a Movement," Read more
A Few Ideas About Building a Movement
This is the talk Peter Montague gave June 10 at the national precaution conference in Baltimore. The original PowerPoint slides can be found here. The slides were accompanied by a longer printed handout and a list of potential allies that we could join with to develop a movement for precaution and prevention.
Getting to Prevention and Precaution: Building a Movement
This is the printed handout that accompanied Peter Montague's PowerPoint talk, "A Few Ideas about Building a Movement," Read more
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June 21, 2006
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June 22, 2006
"Sometimes an intended epithet can be turned to good advantage. In the sole surviving issue of the Decatur, Texas Times one finds the way Populists not only accepted the label `calamity howler' but insisted that they had ample reason to howl and would continue to howl until their objectives had been attained." --- THE POPULIST MIND, edited by Norman Pollack
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June 20, 2006
Three dollars a gallon for gas. Soaring home heating costs. Record oil company profits. Billions in taxpayers dollars raked in by those same oil companies in subsidies and tax breaks promoted by the Bush administration and passed by the Republicans in Congress who rake in Big Oil campaign contributions.
And African Americans get gassed. Largely urban, we pay the highest part of our incomes in home heating and cooling bills, living in old buildings often with miserable insulation. But we are locked out of much of the industry as it consolidates.
Americans ought to be up Read more
And African Americans get gassed. Largely urban, we pay the highest part of our incomes in home heating and cooling bills, living in old buildings often with miserable insulation. But we are locked out of much of the industry as it consolidates.
Americans ought to be up Read more
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June 19, 2006
Momentous change is approaching in American politics. Conceivably, the turning point has already arrived, too indistinct to recognize. We are witnessing the demise of the reigning economic ideology. A deep shift of this kind is a very rare event, one that comes along only every thirty or forty years. Economic disorders accumulate that the orthodoxy cannot answer and may even have caused. Eventually, the ideological presumptions are discredited by real-world contradictions.
The last time this happened was in the 1970s, when economic liberalism foundered and collapsed. Ossified Read more
The last time this happened was in the 1970s, when economic liberalism foundered and collapsed. Ossified Read more
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So you pull into your neighborhood gas station one morning to fill `er up. Pop the gas cap. Swipe your card. Stick the nozzle - hey, it doesn't fit! What the __?!? "We're sorry," says a disembodied voice over the speaker, "Your vehicle's gas tank isn't compatible with our Exxon Gasoline Service. Also, you don't seem to be a member of the Exxon Gasoline Portal. Would you like to order our Exxon Gas Cap today for only $39.95, and get your first month's membership free?"
"Hey, I Read more
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June 15, 2006
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A Personal Report from the Baltimore Precaution Conference
The Baltimore conference on precaution was a smashing success in more ways than one. The workshops were fabulous, the speakers were great. And our old nemesis white privilege <http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?issue_ID=2187 reared its ancient head, giving us all one more opportunity to Read more
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Featured stories in this issue...
A Personal Report from the Baltimore Precaution Conference
The Baltimore conference on precaution was a smashing success in more ways than one. The workshops were fabulous, the speakers were great. And our old nemesis white privilege <http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?issue_ID=2187 reared its ancient head, giving us all one more opportunity to Read more
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June 15, 2006
"Before his swearing-in, Bilbray said he looked forward to replacing the images of airplanes that used to decorate the walls with photos of surfboards and sailboats." < USA Today
Unfortunately, the immigrant-bashing Brian Bilbray wasn't talking about decorating his dorm room. California's newest congressman is moving into the Rayburn House Office Building, specifically the office vacated by Randall "Duke" Cunningham, bribe taker extraordinaire, who is now serving eight years in prison. Bilbray edged past Democrat Francine Busby in a special, allegedly closely watched election Read more
Unfortunately, the immigrant-bashing Brian Bilbray wasn't talking about decorating his dorm room. California's newest congressman is moving into the Rayburn House Office Building, specifically the office vacated by Randall "Duke" Cunningham, bribe taker extraordinaire, who is now serving eight years in prison. Bilbray edged past Democrat Francine Busby in a special, allegedly closely watched election Read more
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