by John Zangas Activist Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK Women for Peace, says she was detained overnight at Cairo International Airport on her way to join an international delegation of women traveling to Gaza. She claims that she was confined in a frigid cell there and beaten before being deported to […]
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by Anne Meador Now that it’s come down to the wire whether the proposed Keystone XL pipeline will be allowed to proceed, students objecting to the cross-border conduit for tar sands crude oil are putting President Obama on notice: if he gives his approval, it will have consequences. More than […]
by John Zangas Several hundred students met at the Thurgood Marshall Center in Washington, DC for teaching, training and preparation for a massive rally against the Keystone XL pipeline to be held Sunday, March 2. The students traveled from 42 states and over 80 campuses–some as far away as California and Maine–because […]
by Anne Meador Opposition to a proposed natural gas liquefaction facility in Southern Maryland has taken on a added dimension with an influx of new participants attending a Baltimore rally on Thursday. People from Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, believing that they too will be affected by the Cove Point terminal […]
By John Zangas By the banks of the Dan River near Eden, NC, there is a sign that says, “This is your drinking water… help keep it clean!” Apparently Duke Energy didn’t pay attention to it. On February 2, toxic coal ash leaked into the Dan River from a pit […]
“Welcome to North Carolina,” reads one sign. “Turn your watch back 50 years!” You could say that the “Moral Monday” movement and Saturday’s “Mass Moral March” are the backlash against a backlash–against modernity. Since gaining the upper hand in the legislature in 2010 and securing the governorship in 2012, North Carolina’s GOP […]
by John Zangas Environmentalists rallied at the White House Monday night with a giant faux pipeline, intensifying efforts to stop the Keystone XL pipeline just days after the State Department published its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS). It was one of more than 280 actions coordinated across the country to […]
by Anne Meador UPDATE below A secret non-disclosure agreement between Calvert County, MD officials and Dominion Cove Point LNG may have concealed financial projections crucial to calculating the full benefit Dominion will receive from property tax breaks passed by the Board of County Commissioners last November. A public information request […]
By Anne Meador About twenty protestors with a large yellow banner that said “Democracy Not Corporatocracy” waited in the dark to greet President Obama as he arrived at the U.S. Capitol last night to deliver his State of the Union address. They shivered in the 10-degree wind chill. “We are out […]
Three people were killed and four injured at a shopping mall in Columbia, MD when a shooter opened fire Saturday morning. The shooter was among the fatalities. Rob Brune interviews Columbia Mall employee Patti Lareau, who works at the kiosk directly across from the Zumiez skate shop where the shooting […]
By Anne Meador The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on January 16 on a bill that would renew Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the President, allowing trade treaties to be “fast tracked” through Congress. The measure was introduced by Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-MT) last week, just as […]
By Wade Fulmer On the first day of the 2014 legislative session, South Carolinians arrived in Columbia with energy and determination to hold the first “Enough Is Enough, Truthful Tuesday” rally at the State House. More than 600 citizens and community and group leaders, joined by a few legislators, made […]