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Dear Friends:

The biggest package of pro-Wall Street, anti-worker trade agreements in over a decade will be voted upon this Wednesday. We need you to contact Congress once more and tell them you've had enough.

The backers of the Korea, Panama and Colombia Free Trade Agreements have been shamelessly and dishonestly promoting them as job creation plans — but you and I know better. Nearly two decades of lived experience under NAFTA, not to mention the federal government's own studies, shows that these pacts will become significant job-killers if enacted. Each of these three trade deals is about corporate greed, plain and simple.

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A newly released book denounces a secret agreement between Argentina/Chile in favor of Barrick Gold Corporation [the largest pure gold mining company in the world, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada]

The author brings to light a "secret agreement" signed by officials of the Governments of Cristina Fernandez and Michelle Bachelet, suggesting a "serious violation of the law."

Written by: Argentine journalist and congressman Miguel Bonasso

Offering up a rough translation, thought this was important, especially in light of the fact that resistance to globalization is much more sophisticated in Argentina that the U.S.

The Book: "The Bad, Model K and Barrick Gold, masters and servants in the looting of Argentina"
Spanish: "El Mal. El modelo K y la Barrick Gold, amos y servidores en el saqueo de la Argentina"

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Reposting this article, although similar versions appeared in the Oregonian and Salem newspapers and possibly the columbian as well. This is awesome work done by Cascadia Wildlands and Oregon Wild.

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Conservationists are trying to stop a kill order for the alpha male of Oregon's first wolf pack. If carried out, the kill order would reduce Oregon's wolf population to 12 and leave a mother and young pup to fend for themselves.

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Stop the slaughter of the Imnaha Pack! Bend, Oregon tomorrow 10/4 at noon, corner of Powers Rd. and Third St, one block from the ODFW office. Signs provided, but bring you own anyway!

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This is a video showcasing the new 2011 Nissan Leaf, part of a movement by Drive Oregon to market all-electric eco-friendly vehicles. This interview was taken at the Moving Planet - 350.ORG event in Portland at the Memorial Coliseum.

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Please help the Great Basin Water Network, indigenous tribes and many others in voicing their opposition to the SNWA's proposed pipeline from the Snake and Spring Valler aquifer system to Las Vegas that is being planned mostly for the benefit of suburban sprawl developers like Harvey Whittemore. The public hearing will be held in Carson City, though this planned extraction of 41 billion gallons per year will destroy an ecosystem that connects to Great Basin National Park and is a national resource that is for all to share in it's natural state, NOT to water Mr. Whittemore's 16 planned golf courses and 100,000 more homes for sprawl development nearly 50 miles north of the urban core of Las Vegas!

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The probable link between the Ruby Pipeline bringing natural gas to Malin, OR where the proposed Pacific Connector pipeline would meet from Coos Bay, OR was too much of a financial opportunity for Jordan Cove Corp's marketing rep Bob Braddock to pass up. Exporting domestic LNG originally intended for CA would raise the price for consumers while depleting domestic natural gas reserves as quickly as they can sell it. The only beneficiaries of the planned natural gas export would be the corporations themselves, NOT the consumer and definitely not the ecosystem burdened with fracking contaminated aquifers and pipeline scars across the landscape.

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Moving Portland - 350oregon - Out takes from the speeches on the main stage

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We hope that you can block off the first half of your day on Tuesday, October 11 and dedicate it to change for Oregon's State Forests. Friends of Oregon's Forests (all of us) will be demonstrating for a new way forward. The State Land Board, made up of Governor Kitzhaber, Secretary Brown and Treasurer Wheeler, will be making a final decision on a proposed 40% clearcutting ramp-up on the Elliott State Forest.

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Federal injunction on all nafta ports , flags of convenience play one port against another while locals finance infrastructure offshore uses.WHile forcing local libraries to close cuz port staff traveljunkets,and deals made force propertytaxes to pay bond payments for transportation bonds lobbied by I.M.O shipping and cruiselines.

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The Department of Fish and Wildlife is facade of an organization. It has become nothing more than a puppet for the livestock and ranching industries. Stop the slaughter!!!

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ODFW plans to kill Imnaha Pack Alpha male plus yearling.

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For the Guardian coverage of this issue, follow this link:
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/17/oil-sands-wildlife

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A sustainable future requires facing the realities of waste and speculation. The economy should be a part of life, not a steamroller crushing creativity and self-determination. The economy should serve humankind, not vice versa.

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Over 200 people gathered in northern Washington state this past Labor Day weekend to learn about the many uses of the fungal kingdom at the world's first Radical Mycology Convergence. For four days, people gathered from several countries and various cultural backgrounds to teach and learn together about mycoremediation, the use of fungi as a tool to help combat mass pollution and ecological degradation. In an age when so many human caused disasters are occurring throughout the world, the fungi are beginning to be seen as a strong option for tackling some of these great problems long thought impossible to solve.

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By focusing the world's attention on the climate crisis for an entire day, 24 Hours of Reality is intended to create a global movement and inspire international action to solve the climate crisis the other 364 days of the year.

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Jewish Community Heroes campaign organized by The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) celebrates the selflessness and courage of those who put others before themselves

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The APIEL conference unites individuals working for environmental justice
throughout Appalachia for a weekend of workshops addressing ecological
problems, as well as the underlying policies that enable these issues to occur.

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"Americans watched in horror as the World Trade Center collapsed. Yet it was a horror no different from what the U.S. government has done with it's bombing of civilian populations in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Korea. The U.S. bombings of just these countries, not to mention many other U.S. acts of war, murdered millions of civilians. Terror against civilians is never justified. Now the U.S. government is preparing to terror bomb Afghanistan... " -Liberation News, September 11, 2001

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"Americans watched in horror as the World Trade Center collapsed. Yet it was a horror no different from what the U.S. government has done with it's bombing of civilian populations in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Korea. The U.S. bombings of just these countries, not to mention many other U.S. acts of war, murdered millions of civilians. Terror against civilians is never justified. Now the U.S. government is preparing to terror bomb Afghanistan... "
-Liberation News, September 12, 2001

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Today, the American continent is still the main front for the biggest operation of imperial conquest. Horizontal, or suburban development, is by far one of the worst ongoing ecological disasters, along with monocultures, the nuclear/biotech industries and the whole natural resources industry, all of these being the only reasons why our former colonies have sprung out of European empires; while imperialism was swept under the carpet in our History classes, while it has become viral, and exponential since the so-called post-war ?decolonization movement?, and especially the ongoing devastating military invasions carried by NATO abroad. More than this, the process of continuous invasion has gone into full battle mode here, right under the veil of social order, and one has to got to live in suburbia for not to see it, because everywhere else, it is an easily observable fact. Obviously, there is something bigger at play behind all the machines of destruction and their restless, mindless soldiers of the construction industry, tying them all together in a same never-ending process.

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Arnie Gunderson, World Renowned Nuclear Expert and Helen Caldicott Discuss the "Holocaust" coming our way from Fukushima. We have already been blasted with hot particles.

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Obama saves $90 billion for capitalists by illegally directing the EPA not to meet the smog requirements of the Clean Air Act while he continues to fail on climate change and job creation.

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Animal Liberation Front cuts away fencing, release elk from farm

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Portland Rising Tide dropped an anti-tar sands banner today from the Burnside Bridge. The group is acting in solidarity with communities, organizations and individuals resisting tar sands development across North America.

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I'm sitting in the rain in Lafayette Square Park, typing while I listen to the chants behind me. There are 243 people sitting, soaked, in front of the White House, including an 86-year-old man from Sarasota Florida wearing a sign that says "World War II Vet, Handle With Care." This is the last day of Phase 1 of this campaign—we've now done three important things:

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Anyone that continues to support Barrack Obama is a fucking asshole.

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Oil companies want to build a huge pipeline from Canada to Texas to open up new markets for tar-sand oil, the dirtiest fossil fuel on earth. But Obama could refuse the permit -- and a wave of protests are trying to convince him to do the right thing. Sign the petition before it's delivered to the White House on Saturday

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obama tells EPA to back off!

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Now over 1,000 have been arrested for recently protesting in front of the White House
 http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8132

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Where is the press? Where is our Government Informants re: Health and Intervention? Where are the measurements? Why has the Press Blacked out on this? Why are we not being told?

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Please do not forget to make an effort every day to put an end to this horrifically destructive exploitation project.

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In The Public Interest
Sun and Sanity
By Ralph Nader

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Bloomberg has left the prisoners behind to die at New York's Rikers Island.

Obama has left the people of the world to suffer climate change.

We must fight!

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The Alberta Tar Sands Project has devastated a vast swath of North America, and its proposed extension, the Keystone XL Pipeline, would further crisscross the entire continent, transporting oil to refineries in Texas to then be Canadian tar oil project distributed beyond.
Please take action on Thursday Sept. 1 in Portland, in solidarity with Tar Sands Activists from across the country.

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