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Clean Stoves Can Save Lives

By On January 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The World Health Organization reports that around three billion people cook and heat their homes with an open fire that burns biomass such as wood and coal. That’s HALF of all people in the world! Nearly two million people die prematurely from illness attributable to indoor air pollution from household solid fuel use. [...]

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An Obama/Edwards ticket?

By On January 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment

No disrespect to my friends who support John Edwards. I believe he is a excellent Presidential candidate. But imagine this. What about a Obama/Edwards ticket? What if John Edwards ran with Obama as his Vice President? A white Southern man who serves beside a black President from Chicago. We could have this soon. It could [...]

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Palestinians break out from Gaza seige

By On January 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Check out this amazing video of tens of thousands of Palestinian people rushing into Egypt to feed themselves and find supplies. Amazingly a major section of the Israeli wall has been torn down. My first look at major American news media reveals few reports. But the NYTimes has a few slide shows. [...]

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Dissent is NOT Disloyalty

By On January 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Another great speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam. It seems so relevant today. Check out the full text after the fold.

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Beyond Vietnam and Iraq

By On January 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment

See the full text of Dr. King’s speech Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence bellow the fold.

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John Edwards at Google

By On June 19, 2007 · Leave a Comment

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Chapel Hill Town Council Resolution on Immigration

By On February 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Tonight the Chapel Hill Town Council has on its agenda a petition from the Orange County Bill of Rights Defense Committee proposing A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A POLICY ON ARREST FOR CIVIL IMMIGRATION VIOLATION and A RESOLUTION TO REDRESS SOME OF THE HARM CAUSED BY THE ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT OF SIMA FALLAHI. See the

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Egyptian Blogger Gets 4 Years in Prison

By On February 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The AP on WaPo is reporting that Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil, aka Kareem Amer, has been sent to prison for blogging.

Abdel Kareem Nabil, a 22-year-old former student at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, had been a vocal secularist and sharp critic of conservative Muslims in his blog. He often lashed out at Al-Azhar [...]

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Bridging the Digital Divide RDU style

By On February 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Big props to Fiona Morgan for writing about all the work people are doing in the Triangle to bridge the digital divide. The Independent has the following stories:

Goodwill in Raleigh trains thousands on computers around the world Teens teaching teens to connect Developing a laptop for the children of [...]

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The General Assembly belongs to the people, not the powerful

By On February 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

HKonJ: Big March in Raleigh Tomorrow
Historic Thousands on Jones Street, aka HKonJ, is tomorrow. Check out this video of Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, President of the North Carolina State NAACP.

From the HKonJ website:

HKonJ: The People’s General Assembly

In order to make substantial and progressive change [...]

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