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DEEP FRIED AND STILL ALIVE: Dog Meat Trade Strays To Criminal Billion Dollar Industry
Euthanasied, tortured, beaten, and dying in crude metal cages stacked hundreds high, stray dogs find themselves stealing food crops from farmers to being butchered in dilapidated shacks. These side street businesses, partially obscured from view, hardly...
Tags: Asia, dog meat in Asai, Japan, China, Vietnam, Delicacy food in Asia, stray dogs, food crops in Asia, farming in Asia, eating dogs, Thailand, Euthanasia, activism, Northeast Thailand, rice patties, dog meat exports, Christians, Catholic, dog-trafficing, dog traders, Mekong River, corruption in police, vaccination, valuable exports in Asia, bush meat, extinctionTa Rae, animal cruelty
Win It! Shell Gasoline Gift Card
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
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How can I enter to win the gift card I went and did not see any entry form - Anonymous Posted 11/27/09 04:26 PM I am retired and could really use that Shell “gift” card! - Linda Posted 11/27/09 02:21 PM
Tags: Los Angeles, Internet censorship, Project Chanology, Internet activism, Activism, Scientology and the Internet
Polar Bears Falling To Their Deaths
An airplane engine humming crescendos in the background as polar bears drop out of the sky, slam to the ground and meet their bloody deaths. At first you may be wondering, why am I being subjected to this brutal imagery?It's because Plane Stupid...
Tags: Ed Gillespie, Plane Stupid, bears falling, green, China, Hong Kong, Civil disobedience, Radical environmentalism, Bears, Polar bear, Action on climate change, Polar, Activism, polar bears, Environment
Arrested SOA protester vows not to return for trial
Columbus :: GA :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Mallon Faircloth, protester Michael Walli made it clear he did not want bond. He asked the judge to allow him to remain in the Harris County Jail until his January 2010 trial. Faircloth refused the request, and the 61-year-old protester said he would...
Tags: Michael Walli, G. Mallon Faircloth, U.S, fort benning, SOA Watch, Columbus, School of the Americas Watch, Columbus Georgia, Columbus Georgia metropolitan area, Muscogee County Georgia, Activism, Law Crime
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt ‘Argue Because She Hates Barack Obama’
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility The actress — a U.N. goodwill ambassador — apparently believes the American President is a “socialist in disguise”. “She hates him,” a Jolie insider told Us Weekly magazine. “She’s into education and rehabilitation and thinks Obama is all about welfare...
Tags: Angelina Jolie, Obamas, thinks obamas, Los Angeles, Brad Pitt, Politics, Jolie, Barack Obama, Jon Voight, Internet memes, Creed, Family of Barack Obama, Robert Pattinson, Katie Couric, Social Issues, Celebrity sex tape, Human Interest, American culture, Anonymity, Brangelina, Internet censorship, Project Chanology, Internet activism, Activism, Scientology and the Internet
OU opens Center for Social Justice
New York City :: NY :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility The university recently launched the Center for Social Justice, part of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. With a focus on internships, “activists-in-residence” and information on issues both local and global, the center’s staff aims to connect students...
Tags: Gender Studies Program, Jill Irvine, america, child support, Center for Social Justice, New York City, Economic development, Manufacturing, Sweatshop, Activism, Labor, Community organizing, Anti-corporate activism, Education, Social Issues
Thousands Demand Closure of Fort Benning's School of the Americas
San Salvador :: El Salvador | 9 days ago
Credibility Scott Galindez, t r u t h o u t Report Thousands Rally at the gates of Fort Benning. (Photo: Linda Panetta) This weekend, thousands of people gathered at the gates of Ft. Benning to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the killings of 14-year-old Celia...
Tags: Fort Benning, El Salvador, San Salvador, Columbus Georgia, Russell County Alabama, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, School of the Americas Watch, War Conflict, Columbus Georgia metropolitan area, Muscogee County Georgia, Chattahoochee County Georgia, Law Crime, Religion Belief, Roy Bourgeois, American Friends Service Committee, Nobel Peace Prize, Activism
Fewer flock to SOA Watch protest
San Salvador :: El Salvador | 11 days ago
Credibility The couple joined thousands of other protestors who gathered Saturday at Fort Benning’s gates for the 20th annual event. The protest seeks to close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation — formerly known as the School of the Americas,...
Tags: SOA Watch, El Salvador, San Salvador, School of the Americas Watch, Fort Benning, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, Veterans for Peace, Columbus Georgia metropolitan area, Muscogee County Georgia, Activism, Politics, Excommunication, Priesthood, Ordination of women, Maryknoll, Roy Bourgeois, Religion Belief
Polar bears fall from sky in shock ad
London :: United Kingdom | 12 days ago
Credibility Airline pollution activists Plane Stupid are on a collision course with the advertising regulator after launching a graphic cinema campaign that sees CGI polar bears falling to bloody deaths to highlight the impact of carbon emissions. Plane Stupid's...
Tags: polar bears, bears fall, United Kingdom, London, Sky, Bears, Inuit culture, Environment, Civil disobedience, Plane Stupid, Polar ice cap, Action on climate change, Activism, Climate change
SOA Watch marks 20th anniversary of assassinations
San Salvador :: El Salvador | 12 days ago
Credibility It was 6 a.m. on Nov. 16, 1989, when a gardener named Obdulio Ramos saw that six Jesuit priests and his wife and daughter had been gunned down by soldiers in El Salvador. From these killings came the movement that 20 years later Columbus knows as “SOA...
Tags: jesuit priests, 20th anniversary, El Salvador, San Salvador, Blase Bonpane, Salvadoran Civil War, Society of Jesus, Religion Belief, Activism, School of the Americas Watch, Fort Benning, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, Columbus Georgia, Columbus Georgia metropolitan area, Muscogee County Georgia, Chattahoochee County Georgia
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