Greenspiration News: Olympics, budget, tasers

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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