Greenspiration News: Olympics, budget, tasers
Bischoff Angela
greenspi at web.ca
Mon Feb 15 10:56:47 EST 2010
Greenspiration News
"I ride around/I'm like super girl/I never touch the ground
Hey, hey, some days I'm goin' super fast
Hey, hey, n' there's cars stuck in a mass
Hey, hey, n' I feel super kick ass"
- "I Got A Bicycle by Coco Love Alcorn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxtlKIdOxzc
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Olympics Coverage part I:
The Dominion's Olympics issue is available for online perusal and pdf
download. Everything you need to know, but aren't getting from the
corporate press about the 2010 Winter Games:
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/print/issue_64
Olympics Coverage part II:
The Vancouver Media Co-op is sporting a new look and is featuring lots
of critical, on the ground Olympics coverage you will find no where
else. Visit them online, now and when the games begin:
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca
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2010 Rings Hollow
This 15 minute video documentary examines the history of housing in
Vancouver and the impact of the 2010 Olympic Games on the city's
homelessness and poverty.
The film features interviews with legal experts, activists, and people
affected by the housing crisis, with particular focus on hotel
closures, evictions and the criminalization of dissent.
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/3141
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Copenhagen - the Munich of our times?
The Copenhagen Climate Accord was a failure of historic proportions
that is hardly worth the paper it is printed on. The climate
negotiations need to adopt a new
approach that can overcome barriers like national self-interest.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8490935.stm
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Peoples Submission - Copenhagen Accord
A network of leading non-government organizations including Climate
Action Network, Sierra Club of Canada, and the David Suzuki Foundation
made a Peoples Submission to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change on behalf of 150,000 Canadians who signed the
KyotoPlus Petition. Read it here:
http://www.manitobawildlands.org/cc_meetings_cop15.htm#people_submission
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InvAID: The Militarisation of Aid to Haiti
Here is a list of more than 100 web links to articles on the hyper-
militarisation of development assistance to Haiti.
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/65/InvAID.htm
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Stop the Cruel Grey Seal Slaughter
Sign the Petition
Tragically, the government of Nova Scotia allows the commercial
slaughter of grey seals in the protected Scaterie Island Wilderness
Area. The grey seal kill on Hay Island, part of this protected area,
is one of the cruelest seal slaughters HSI has ever documented.
https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4383&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr004=yexzi6vn92.app304a
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We Want Clean Energy Jobs Now!
Sign the clean energy jobs petition and encourage others to do the same.
Join other Canadians in calling on the federal government to make
clean energy jobs and pollution reduction a priority.
http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/8298/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=57
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Suppliers of oil sands fuel shunned
Two big US companies have decided to avoid suppliers that source fuel
from Canada’s oil sands to curb their carbon footprints.
The decisions by Whole Foods Market, an organic grocery chain, and Bed
Bath & Beyond, a household goods company, underline how industry is
moving to fill the void left by inaction at Copenhagen and the failure
of the US Congress to limit carbon emissions.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a9713b16-15e3-11df-b65b-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1
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Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis: Concerns about DSM-V
Mission: To provide information for people (including but not limited
to professionals and journalists) about biases and other problems in
psychiatric diagnosis, an especially important goal in light of the
American Psychiatric Association's preparation for the 2013
publication of the next edition of the psychiatric diagnostic manual.
By the Association for Women in Psychology, it takes on problems with
a number of categories including Female Sexual Disfunction, Parental
Alienation Syndrome, Obesity and more.
http://www.awpsych.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102&Itemid=126
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The Corporate Takeover of U.S. Democracy
By Noam Chomsky
Jan. 21, 2010, will go down as a dark day in the history of U.S.
democracy, and its decline. On that day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
that the government may not ban corporations from political spending
on elections--a decision that profoundly affects government policy,
both domestic and international.
The decision heralds even further corporate takeover of the U.S.
political system.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/main/article/5502/
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McQuaig: Tory chill freezes out Tobin tax
Long resisted by Wall Street, the Tobin tax – or its new broader
version, the financial transaction tax, sometimes called the Robin
Hood tax – is now winning approval in the corridors of power. Since
last fall, the governments of Britain, France and Germany have all
indicated support.
But the Harper government opposes the tax.
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/762427--mcquaig-tory-chill-freezes-out-tobin-tax
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Tasered
CBC documentary
Thursday February 18, 2010 at 9 pm on CBC-TV
Repeating: Friday February 19 at 10 pm ET/PT & Sunday February 21 at
10 pm on CBC News Network
A decade later, more than 400 people have died in North America
‘proximal to Taser use.’ That is raising doubts about those early
claims. Human Rights groups clamor for more independent research into
the weapon and national standards for its use. Newspaper editorials
demand the kind of testing that they say was not done those ten years
ago
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2010/tasered/index.html
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Green Budget Coalition Prioritizes 3 Budget Actions: for Biodiversity,
Water & Energy
The Green Budget Coalition comprises 21 of Canada's leading
environmental and conservation organizations and has been active since
1999. Its detailed budget recommendations are contained in
Recommendations for Budget 2010: Investing in a Prosperous Green Future.
http://www.cela.ca/newsevents/media-release/green-budget-coalition-prioritizes-3-budget-actions-biodiversity-water-ener
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CCPA Online Consultation for an Alternative Federal Budget
As part of this year's Alternative Federal Budget project, the
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has initiated an online
consultation that we hope you will participate in. What our
governments do in the coming months will deeply affect whether the
economic recovery only works for those invested in stock markets or
whether it works for every Canadian household: rich, poor, or middle
class.
What do you think the priorities of the 2010 federal budget should be?
Take part in our Alternative Federal Budget online consultation by
clicking here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9J9FCFV. Appuyer ici pour
la version française:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9JFYRLR.
For more information, visit: http://www.policyalternatives.ca/
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