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The Fortnightly Review (blog)Excerpt: Science and social reform in America.The Fortnightly Review (blog)From the 1960s onward, scientists themselves did little to enhance their image as spokespersons on crucial issues. Intense specialization, dependence on ...and more »
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Dollars & SenseKeep It In The GroundDollars & SenseWith SIL assistance, Waorani were corralled into a 16000-hectare “protectorate” in the late 1960s, and many went to work for the oil companies who were ...
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Green wardrobesKansas City StarIn the 1960s, plastic clothing was part of the futuristic Space Age look, even though the materials the clothes were made of were carcinogenic and harmful ...and more »
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A Movement of Concern is an excerpt from my short film "Celebrating the Life and Times of Irving Sarnoff", which can be seen in its entirety at www.vimeo.com This section focuses on various Vietnam war protests in Southern California in the 1960s. About Irving Sarnoff: Irv is a lifelong activist who has campaigned openly for human rights, civil rights, world peace and a host of environmental concerns. Irv was an organizer of the 1967 Century City anti-war demonstration in which more than 10000 demonstrators took to the streets outside of the Century Plaza Hotel where then President Lyndon Johnson was attending a fundraising dinner. Outspoken in his opposition to a number of government policies, Irv found himself under investigation by the FBI and the House Committee on Unamerican Activities. Irv founded, co-founded or has been active in the leadership of a number of organizations including the Mississippi Assistance Project, the San Gabriel Valley Council on Discrimination, the Peace Action Council and Alliance for Survival, to name only a few. Irv conceptualized and was a lead organizer of the 1982 "Peace Sunday" concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl and the "Survival Sunday" concerts of the mid-80s. In 1985, Irv founded the organization Friends of the United Nations and dedicated himself to educating people around the world about the importance of the United Nations. This video is not inclusive of all of Irv's activities and achievements, but simply touches on some of the ...
Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) gave this opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. Every Senator who has spoken before me has sworn to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States." And so have I. There are few things that we do that are more important to fulfilling that oath than making sure that the Justices of the United States Supreme Court are brilliant, humane, and just individuals. But these hearings are also a learning experience for Minnesotans and all Americans watching at home. Before I joined the Senate, I watched at least part of every Supreme Court confirmation hearing that was televised. And I think part of my job here is to continue that learning experience for the American people. Now, last year, I used my time during these hearings to highlight what I think is one of the most serious threats to our Constitution and to the rights it guarantees the American people: the activism of the Roberts Court. I noted that for years, conservatives running for the Senate have made it almost an article of faith that they won't vote for activist judges who make law from the bench. And when asked to name a model justice, they would often cite Justice Thomas, who I noted has voted to overturn more federal laws than Justices Stevens and Breyer combined. In recent cycles, they would name Chief Justice Roberts. Well, I think we established very convincingly during the Sotomayor hearings that there is ...
Intersection For The Arts, The Hub, And The Chronicle BuildingThe San Francisco AppealIn fact, Intersection could also fit onto the list of inspiring leaders of the arts and activist communities. Started in the 1960's, Intersection is a ...
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Festival of resistance in DetroitSocialist Worker OnlineFeatured speakers included Grace Lee Boggs, an influential writer and activist in Detroit since the 1950s and 1960s, and General Baker, leader of the Dodge ...and more »
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In the Battle to Save Forests,Yale Environment 360The company has long been notorious in activist circles for its poor environmental record, but major The palm oil industry, which has consumed vast tracts ...and more »
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Problems in the Gulf create few effects hereVentura County StarPart of the reason the Santa Barbara spill was such a catalyst was because it happened at the end of the 1960s, a time of upheaval and change. ...and more »
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How to Succeed in PoliticsThe National Interest OnlineThe Democrats, just as they picked up the free-silver issue in the 1890s and progressivism in the 1910s, adopted the civil-rights cause in the 1960s. ...and more »
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Activist stands ready to be part of big movementDetroit Free PressNo different in fervor and size than the rallies that sparked civil rights and environmental improvements, the forum is to give grassroots activists a ...and more »
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Activist stands ready to be part of big movementDetroit Free PressNo different in fervor and size than the rallies that sparked civil rights and environmental improvements, the forum is to give grassroots activists a ...and more »
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Anger grows across the world at the real price of 'frontier oil'The GuardianOil is estimated to have earned Nigeria more than $600bn since the 1960s, and the oil and gas sector represents about 80% of government revenues; ...and more »
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Anger grows across the world at the real price of 'frontier oil'The GuardianOil is estimated to have earned Nigeria more than $600bn since the 1960s, and the oil and gas sector represents about 80% of government revenues; ...and more »
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New York Times (blog)Live Blogging BP's Tony Hayward in CongressNew York Times (blog)With the possible exception of the space program in the 1960s, it is difficult to imagine the gathering of a larger, more technically proficient team in one ...and more »
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Detroit Metro TimesModern movementsDetroit Metro TimesTo understand the Allied Media Conference that is being held in Detroit this weekend, think 1960s activism meets 21st century technology. ...
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This video is available in its entirety at Vimeo -- www.vimeo.com About Irving Sarnoff: Irv is a lifelong activist who has campaigned openly for human rights, civil rights, world peace and a host of environmental concerns. Irv was an organizer of the 1967 Century City anti-war demonstration in which more than 10000 demonstrators took to the streets outside of the Century Plaza Hotel where then President Lyndon Johnson was attending a fundraising dinner. Outspoken in his opposition to a number of government policies, Irv found himself under investigation by the FBI and the House Committee on Unamerican Activities. Irv founded, co-founded or has been active in the leadership of a number of organizations including the Mississippi Assistance Project, the San Gabriel Valley Council on Discrimination, the Peace Action Council and Alliance for Survival, to name only a few. Irv conceptualized and was a lead organizer of the 1982 "Peace Sunday" concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl and the "Survival Sunday" concerts of the mid-80s. In 1985, Irv founded the organization Friends of the United Nations and dedicated himself to educating people around the world about the importance of the United Nations. This video is not inclusive of all of Irv's activities and achievements, but simply touches on some of the highlights of a life dedicated to activism. About the video: This video was created to be played at a surprise 80th birthday celebration for my friend Irving Sarnoff in May 2010. It ...
This video is available in its entirety at Vimeo -- www.vimeo.com About Irving Sarnoff: Irv is a lifelong activist who has campaigned openly for human rights, civil rights, world peace and a host of environmental concerns. Irv was an organizer of the 1967 Century City anti-war demonstration in which more than 10000 demonstrators took to the streets outside of the Century Plaza Hotel where then President Lyndon Johnson was attending a fundraising dinner. Outspoken in his opposition to a number of government policies, Irv found himself under investigation by the FBI and the House Committee on Unamerican Activities. Irv founded, co-founded or has been active in the leadership of a number of organizations including the Mississippi Assistance Project, the San Gabriel Valley Council on Discrimination, the Peace Action Council and Alliance for Survival, to name only a few. Irv conceptualized and was a lead organizer of the 1982 "Peace Sunday" concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl and the "Survival Sunday" concerts of the mid-80s. In 1985, Irv founded the organization Friends of the United Nations and dedicated himself to educating people around the world about the importance of the United Nations. This video is not inclusive of all of Irv's activities and achievements, but simply touches on some of the highlights of a life dedicated to activism. About the video: This video was created to be played at a surprise 80th birthday celebration for my friend Irving Sarnoff in May 2010. It ...
'R'Oil IndignationAlterNet (blog)Former newspaper and magazine reporter and editor. Former distinguished professor of journalism. Unabashed liberal activist, dating to the 1960s.and more »
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Wash. Times distorts Kagan's record to claim she's a "threat to gun owners"Media Matters for AmericaHowever, as federal regulation increased, first during the Progressive Era, then during the New Deal, and finally during the 1960s and 1970s, ...and more »
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Madness Radio's vibrant voices can be heard over the collective dinThe GuardianThe more I talked with people – service users, practitioners and campaigners – the more it became clear how decades after the rights movements of the 1960s ...
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Cutting the red tapeOregon Daily EmeraldSo I sailed the seas of ASUO-recognized groups until calling upon the Coalition Against Environmental Racism (CAER) to be my vehicle for sponsorship. ...
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Utah energy activist says actions worth possible jail timeGrand Junction SentinelHe is scheduled to speak this morning and also join in a morning breakfast talk with fellow environmental activists Dave Foreman of Earth First! fame and ...
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New York TimesObama's Katrina? Maybe WorseNew York TimesSuch diffidence does not convey a JFK-redux in charge of a neo-New Frontier activist government. Long before Obama took office, the public was plenty ...and more »
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Mexican Revolutionaries in AmericaCanada Free PressDidn't such a realization lead to the “student movement” of the 1960s, of which Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, were prominent members? ...
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Mongabay.comNestle caves to activist pressure on palm oilMongabay.comThe country's forest cover has declined from 82 percent in the 1960s to less than fifty percent today. In addition Indonesia and Malaysia—the world's ...and more »
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How green are the 'childless by choice'?Grist MagazineThere was a time, in the '70s and even in the early '80s, when it was totally cool to be childfree, particularly if you were in environmental-activist ...and more »
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www.archive.org --- "Report from IRON MOUNTAIN" ia341229.us.archive.org --- is a secret study by 15 reseachers ordered by JFK in 1961 , Lyndon Johnsen received the report in 1966, and kept it silent as bottom drawer material. In 1967 one of the researchers who called himself "John Doe" published it, and the media denounced it as a Hoax.... BUT...Never before has a Hoax, "REPORT FROM IRON MOUNTAIN ON THE POSSIBILITYAND DESIRABILITY OF PEACE", developed into a accurate description of the factual plans which are layed out before us, day by day. Iron Mountain is a report created by 15 experts in their field about the problem of how geopolitical strategies must be changed and adapted in order to stay and maintain a successfull global governance, without the need to wage wars. The general conclusion of this report is that at the time of writing , the 1960's, the trend to global disarmament was started, the USA would have to fall under the United Nations, UN and obey them. All souvereign nations borders will disappear, the army's of the USA and USSR will be vanished, a new army, the UN global army will take over, next to a new global federal police. Humanism will become the new theocracy... the old world religions will only be accessable inside museums.
GMC grads urged to act on climate changeBarre Montpelier Times ArgusSenior class speaker, Jull Bunge of Whitehouse, Ohio, told her fellow students that they were a "unique breed" whose environmental activism was felt in the ...and more »
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Toxic legacy: Parker Street cleanup, 5 years in, nearing $13 million price tagSouthCoastToday.comThe city estimated that to have removed all the soil — as the late environmental activist Brian Woolley had recommended — would have cost an additional ...and more »
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Bud Jordahl: conservationist, environmentalist, mentor to Wisconsin's green ...Capital Times“In the early 1960s, he held a variety of positions including director and deputy director with the Department of Resource Development (one of the ...and more »
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Nashville universities shape new generation of activistsThe TennesseanLast week at a Vanderbilt University forum on activism, Lawson, who now teaches at Vanderbilt, wondered out loud how young people steeped in a culture of ...and more »
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Irish TimesLouisiana's wetlands were ravaged long before oil spill, says activistIrish Times“Everything we've talked about comes true,” sighs Benoit, a well-known Cajun blues singer and environmental activist. Benoit once worked as a pilot flying ...and more »
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The award-winning Documentary Director, Robert Stone, discusses his latest film called Earth Days. Earth Days is a story about our growing awareness of the environmental crisis during the 1960s and 70s. TO SEE THE REST OF THIS GREAT INTERVIEW, CHECK OUT THINKTALK.COM
Wired NewsThe DIY Genius of the Original Earth DayWired NewsThe first Earth Day was even bigger than the biggest civil rights march or antiwar demonstration or woman's liberation protest in the 1960s. ...and more »
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Telegraph.co.ukEarth Day at 40: How It Began, Where It's GoingNational GeographicEarth Day's history is rooted in the activist-driven 1960s, when the environment was in visible ruins and people were angry, according to Rogers. ...Earth Day's 40th anniversary celebrated at ARCThe American River CurrentEarth Day 2010 Marks 40 Years and CountingAssociated ContentEarth Day grows from grassroots effort in 1970 to global phenomenonLubbockOnline.comCNN -Ottawa Citizen -Texas Insiderall 1,587 news articles »
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Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer and an iconic figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably the 1950 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950.[1] Members of The Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, and for environmental causes. As a song writer, he is best known as the author or co-author of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)" (composed with Lee Hays of The Weavers), and "Turn, Turn, Turn!", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are still sung throughout the world. "Flowers" was a hit recording for The Kingston Trio (1962), Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962), and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963), while The Byrds popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn!" in the mid-1960s, as did Judy Collins in 1964. Seeger was one of the folksingers most responsible for popularizing the spiritual "We Shall Overcome" (also recorded by Joan Baez and many other singer-activists) that became the acknowledged anthem of ...
Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer and an iconic figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably the 1950 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950.[1] Members of The Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, and for environmental causes. As a song writer, he is best known as the author or co-author of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)" (composed with Lee Hays of The Weavers), and "Turn, Turn, Turn!", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are still sung throughout the world. "Flowers" was a hit recording for The Kingston Trio (1962), Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962), and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963), while The Byrds popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn!" in the mid-1960s, as did Judy Collins in 1964. Seeger was one of the folksingers most responsible for popularizing the spiritual "We Shall Overcome" (also recorded by Joan Baez and many other singer-activists) that became the acknowledged anthem of ...
Shedding Light on Buckminster Fuller's Unknown Collaborator October 30, 2009 Interview with Professor Cheryl Fish. Visiting the Whitney Museum last year, BMCC English professor Cheryl Fish couldnt help noticing that an exhibition of Buckminster Fullers work lacked any mention of his long-time collaborator, June Jordan. A poet, essayist, educator and social activist, Jordan had worked closely with Fuller in the 1960s on Skyrise for Harlem, a conceptually daring architectural redesign of the neighborhoods crumbling tenements. Renderings of the project were featured in the show, but only Fullers name appeared. Correcting an historical omission Fish brought the lapse to the attention of the curators and provided materials that documented Jordans role. Soon thereafter, her name appeared alongside Fullers on a descriptive placard. I was happy to be able to make a difference in getting Jordans name in front of the public, Fish says. Now Fish has taken another step toward raising Jordans profile with the publication of an essay entitled Place, Emotion and Environmental Justice in Harlem: June Jordan and Buckminster Fullers 1965 Architextual Collaboration, published in Discourse, Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture (Wayne State University). The fact is, few people know about Jordan or her collaboration with Fuller, says Fish, whose English course often emphasize environmental justice issues in literature and film (she is also coordinator of BMCCs intensive writing ...
"The Farmer's Curst Wife" is Child ballad number 278. It has been recorded by Pete Seeger and Jean Ritchie Song synopsis: A farmer had a bad woman for his wife, and one day the devil came for her. They reached Hell, and the gates were shut, so she struck him. She made life in hell so bad that the devil brought her back to her husband. Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer and a key figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early '50s as a member of The Weavers, most notably the 1950 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight, Irene," which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, and for environmental causes. As a song writer, he is best known as the author or co-author of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)" (composed with Lee Hays of The Weavers), and "Turn, Turn, Turn!", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are still sung throughout the world. "Flowers" was a hit recording for The Kingston Trio (1962), Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962), and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963), while The Byrds popularized "Turn ...
Weavers), and "Turn, Turn, Turn!", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are still sung throughout the world. "Flowers" was a hit recording for The Kingston Trio (1962), Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962), and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963), while The Byrds popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn!" in the mid-1960s, as did Judy Collins in 1964. ...
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942), better known as Gilberto Gil is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and his political commitment. From 2003 to 2008, he served as his country's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Gil began playing music as a child and was still a teenager when he joined his first band. He started out as a bossa nova musician, eventually writing songs that reflected a new focus on political awareness and social activism. He was a key figure in the Música Popular Brasileira and Tropicalismo movements of the 1960s, alongside artists such as longtime collaborator Caetano Veloso. The Brazilian military regime that took power in 1964 saw both Gil and Veloso as a threat, and the two were held for nine months in 1969 before they were told to leave the country. Gil moved to London, but returned to the Brazilian state of Bahia in 1972 and continued his musical career, as well as working as a politician and environmental advocate. Gil's musical style incorporates an eclectic range of influences, including rock, Brazilian genres including samba and forró, African music, and reggae.
a key figure in the Música Popular Brasileira and Tropicalismo movements of the 1960s, alongside artists such as longtime collaborator Caetano Veloso. The Brazilian military regime that took power in 1964 saw both Gil and Veloso as a threat, and the two were held for nine months in 1969 before they were told to leave the country. Gil moved to London, but returned to the Brazilian state of Bahia in 1972 and continued his musical career, as well as working as a politician and environmental ...
continued to write for publications like The Nation, CounterPunch, The New York Review of Books, Utne Reader and Mother Jones. [edit] Secessionist activism Books •After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination, Duke University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8223-3938-0 •The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream, Free Press, 2001. •Why the Sea Is Salt: Poems of Love and Loss, iuniverse, 2001. •Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution: Lessons ...
Kirkpatrick Sale 01-19-96 Air date Kirkpatrick Sale (Ithaca, New York 1937) is an independent scholar and author who has written prolifically about environmentalism, technology and political decentralism. He has been described as "a leader of the Neo-Luddites"[1] and "the theoretician for a new secessionist movement."[2] Life and work Sale graduated from Cornell University, majoring in history, in 1958.[3][4] He served as editor of the student-owned and managed newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. Sale was one of the leaders of the May 23, 1958 protest against university policies forbidding male and female students fraternizing and its "in loco parentis" policy. Sale and his friend and roommate Richard Farina, and three others, were charged by Cornell. The protest was described in Farina's 1966 novel, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me.[2] Upon graduation, Sale married Faith Apfelbaum (in Cornell, 1958) who later worked as an editor with Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller and Amy Tan. She died in 1999.[5] Sale worked initially in journalism for the leftist journal New Leader and the New York Times Magazine, before becoming a freelance journalist. He spent time in Ghana and wrote his first book about it. His second book, SDS, was about the radical 1960s group Students for a Democratic Society. Subsequent books explored radical decentralism, bioregionalism, environmentalism, the Luddites and similar themes.[4] He has continued to write for publications like The ...
It is worldwide. It began in the 1960s as the Vietnam protest movement, okay? Now add Cuba, Latin America and the Democratic Socialists of Germany. Preheat oven to 360 degrees. Then mix in a little environmental activism. Now blend this concoction with the PLO and Hezbollah... You get the picture. It is the recipe for group insanity. I give you the Messiah, Barack Ooooooo-Bama! ... Hezbollah Green Party Chicago Latino Soros ACORN Barack Internet Black Panther SDS ACLU ...
all this in detail on Talking Points Memo. Where this leaves the realm of farce and enters the realm of actually dangerous is how this whole ACORN lie dovetails with the William Ayers lie - the idea being peddled relentlessly by Sarah Palin that Obama somehow has a secret, long and profound connection to Ayers and 1960s "terrorists." While we're at it, why not demonize those who work with the poor? Remember the Republican convention? "He's a community organizer!" (Sarah Palin) Electorally, I ...
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today's workplaces and ongoing alliances between labor activists and environmentalists. His struggle to address the toxic exposure of tens of thousands of workers led to the passage of the US Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970. Mazzocchi pushed OSHA into being. Mazzacchi led the public campaign that made all the difference. He conducted a series of very public workshops/hearings in the late 1960s at which workers provided detailed information about the horrendous working conditions on ...
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