politics
Fossil fuel industry has stranglehold on Australian government
March 21, 2017Adopting renewables as the main energy source and phasing out fossil fuels should be a primary objective, but the Conservative government still caters to the big mining companies.
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“Battleship Potemkin,” next up of Ten Films That Shook the World
March 17, 2017This screening is part of a monthly film series to commemorate and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the February and October 1917 Revolutions in Russia.
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Trump’s budget robs from the poor, gives to the rich
March 17, 2017Every dollar taken from programs to help low-income people “will go to unaccountable defense contractors.”
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“Transition” imagines the Obama-Trump meeting in the Oval Office
March 16, 2017This is a piece of fun for the moment that tickles our sympathies without a hint of challenge.
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Seniors tell Ryan: Kill the bill before it kills us
March 16, 2017Busloads of senior activists from Illinois and Wisconsin braved heavy snow storms to protest at House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office in Racine, Wisconsin March 14.
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