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Friday, July 04, 2008   21:09 GMT


ENVIRONMENT: Major Climate Campaign Hits U.S. Airwaves
Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, 2 Apr (IPS) - Building on his Oscar for the documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth' and his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore Wednesday launched a 300-million-dollar media campaign to mobilise the public for concrete action to reduce global warming.
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ENVIRONMENT: A Contest for the Biggest Loser
Haider Rizvi
NEW YORK, 31 Mar (IPS) - Toyota, the world's largest automaker, is facing the wrath of U.S. green groups and corporate watchdogs for its constant opposition to legislative proposals aimed at increasing fuel efficiency standards in California and other states.
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RIGHTS-MIDEAST: Govts Ever More Draconian, Group Says
William Fisher
NEW YORK, 27 Mar (IPS) - One of the Arab world's most widely respected non-governmental organisations is charging that at least 14 Middle East and North African governments are systematically violating the civil liberties of their citizens -- and most of them are close U.S. allies in the war on terror.
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POLITICS-US: Anti-War Grannies Arrested Trying to Enlist
Matthew Cardinale
ATLANTA, Georgia, 17 Mar (IPS) - As part of actions across the United States to mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, 10 'Grandmothers for Peace', ranging in age from 57 to 80, were arrested Monday while trying to enlist in the United States Army. Acts of civil disobedience are planned this week in at least 17 other U.S. cities.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Evictions High on Atlanta Agenda
Matthew Cardinale
ATLANTA, Georgia, 26 Jan (IPS) - Some 400 activists from Atlanta, Georgia and around the U.S. South gathered for a People's Movement Assembly Saturday, in solidarity with the Global Day of Action organised under the World Social Forum process.
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ENVIRONMENT-US: Voyages of the Green Armada
Mark Weisenmiller
TAMPA, Florida, 18 Jan (IPS) - name of one of the hottest new environmental non-profit organisations in the United States reflects the eternal optimism of its founders.
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LABOUR-US: Under Siege, Unions Seek Int'l Support
Abra Pollock
WASHINGTON, 13 Dec (IPS) - In the face of globalisation, the U.S. labour movement is striving to reinvent -- and reinvigorate -- itself by establishing closer ties with the world's network of international unions.
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ECONOMY-US: Stemming the Trickle-Up Effect
Abra Pollock
WASHINGTON, 10 Oct (IPS) - When he took office last year, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said he was increasingly concerned about the widening gap between the nation's rich and poor.
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ENVIRONMENT-US: A Budding Market for Food Less Traveled
Enrique Gili* - IPS/IFEJ
SAN DIEGO, California, 4 Oct (IPS) - The scent of portobello mushrooms wafts through the air as two of the three co-owners of Roots prep for their morning customers.
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RIGHTS-US: Low-Income Housing on the Chopping Block
Matthew Cardinale
ATLANTA, 30 Aug (IPS) - Even as people around the United States and the world recall the horrors of Hurricane Katrina two years ago, which displaced tens of thousands of the Gulf Coast's poorest residents, government-subsidised housing has come under increasing attack by policymakers in the U.S.
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