Greenspiration News: power shift

Wed Oct 7 09:51:02 EDT 2009

Greenspiration News

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress....
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did and it never will."
(Frederick Douglass 1857)

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Canada wins the Fossil of the Day awards at the UN climate  
negotiations in Bangkok

First Place: Canada

The day's fossil award goes to Canada for blocking agreement on using  
1990 as the base year. Canada is now the only country more focused on  
finding creative ways to hide their emission increases and make their  
weak targets look ambitious than solving the climate crisis.  
Unfortunately, those emissions linger in the atmosphere much longer  
than Canada's embarrassment about them.

http://www.climatenetwork.org/fossil/bangkok-climate- 
talks-2009/2Oct2009FossilAwards.pdf

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The Golden Rule Across the World's Religions

http://www.scarboromissions.ca/Golden_rule/sacred_texts.php#hebrew

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Adapting to Change - Artic Melt-down

Thursday October 8 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld

Tracks two different Arctics - one that is the storybook land of ice,  
snow and polar bears and the other that is covered with petroleum  
plants and pipelines carrying fossil fuels.
Click here to read more.

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Pedal Power

CBC's Pedal Power documentary Investigates conflict between bikes and  
cars. Why can't the drivers of cars and bikes get along, as they do  
in the crowded cities of Europe?

http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/Doc_Zone/ID=1275907713

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Fluoride: great public health victory or toxic waste?

Health Canada wants the levels in our tap water cut. Now the fight to  
ban it outright is back on.

Read full story: http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/09/21/fluoride-is-one- 
of-our-great-public-health-victories-fluoride-is-toxic-waste-that- 
does-more-harm-than-good/

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Nearly 200 Arrested as Police Unleash Tear Gas, Sound Cannons at
G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh
Democracy Now

Listen/Watch
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/28/ 
nearly_200_arrested_as_police_unleash

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5 Things the Corporate Media Don't Want You to Know About Cannabis

Recent scientific reports suggest that pot doesn't destroy your  
brain, that it doesn't cause lung damage like tobacco -- but you  
won't hear it in the corporate media.

http://www.alternet.org/story/142815/5_things_the_corporate_media_don% 
27t_want_you_to_know_about_cannabis?page=1

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Climate Cover Up: the crusade to deny global warming

This book will open your eyes, it will raise your ire and, most  
especially, it will inspire you to take back the truth — to end the  
Climate Cover-up.

http://www.desmogblog.com/climate-cover-up

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350

On October 24th, local actions in more than 128 countries will be  
held to highlight the number 350 – “as in parts per million, the  
level scientists have identified as the safe upper limit for CO2 in  
our atmosphere.” The 350 campaign is calling on people around the  
world to organize an action on October 24 incorporating the number  
350 at an iconic place in their community. Images from around the  
world will be collected and delivered to the media and world leaders  
to show how unified the global climate movement really is.

Learn more at http://www.350.org/

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Power Shift

On October 23-26, over 1000 young people will converge on Ottawa to  
take a message of bold, comprehensive and immediate federal climate  
action to Parliament Hill. Power Shift will be two days of training,  
strategy and action and one mass lobby day to hold elected officials  
accountable for their part to solve the climate crisis, and to build  
a cohesive and effective youth climate movement. Participants will  
also take part in Climate Day: Fill the Hill on the 24th.

Learn more at http://powershiftcanada.org/

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Seeking Billions, Ontario Sues Tobacco Companies

The Province of Ontario filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking 50 billion  
Canadian dollars from several tobacco companies to recover smoking- 
related health costs since 1955.

Ontario follows British Columbia and New Brunswick in attempts to  
recover health care costs from tobacco companies. All three provinces  
passed legislation enabling their legal actions, an approach that was  
upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2005.

Like plaintiffs in some lawsuits against tobacco companies in the  
United States and elsewhere, Ontario is arguing that the tobacco  
makers have known for decades that their products are addictive and  
dangerous to health but have done little or nothing to mitigate their  
effects and have been late to warn consumers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/business/30tobacco.html

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World Streets

HEAVY TRAFFIC ON THE WAY TO SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SUSTAINABLE  
LIVES. . .

THE VOICES OF SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION

http://newmobilityagenda.blogspot.com/

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Psychiatric Drug Side Effects

Psychiatric drugs including antidepressants, antipsychotics and  
stimulants have serious, life threatening side effects and patient’s  
are rarely warned about the full risks of these drugs.  International  
drug regulatory agencies including the U.S. FDA and Health Canada  
warn that commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs can and do cause  
worsening depression, mania, aggression, psychosis,  
depersonalization, diabetes, hallucinations, suicidal and homicidal  
thoughts, heart attack, stroke and sudden death.  And what’s worse,  
these are drugs commonly being prescribed to children and even infants.

Watch the 2 minute video and download the accompanying report:

http://www.cchrint.org/videos/drugs/psych-drug-side-effects/

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Forget about CanWest. For the best, progressive news around:

AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/

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