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Transition Towns: Interview with Rob Hopkins
Transition Towns is a video that explains the term Peak Oil and how a Transition Town model gives us a strategy of how to deal with the challenges of prohibitively expensive oil prices and climate change.
From Post Carbon Rhode Island
National Jobs with Justice Conference in Providence
The kick-off of the Jobs with Justice National Conference in Providence May 2, hosted by Rhode Island Jobs With Justice, included some rousing speeches and an exciting march through the streets of Providence to the Rhode Island State House.
Winter Soldier Testimonials
You can learn bout and watch explosive Winter Soldier testimony on the Iraq Veterans Against the War website. Here's a sample from YouTube:
Cost of War
Video from the AFSC:
58% Military Families Want Troops Home Within 1 Year
This from the RICCP list thanks to John Gallagher:
Bush Loses Ground With Military Families
By Faye Fiore
The Los Angeles Times
Friday 07 December 2007
Families with ties to the military, long a reliable source of support for wartime presidents, disapprove of President Bush and his handling of the war in Iraq, with a majority concluding the invasion was not worth it, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found....
early six out of every 10 military families disapprove of Bush's job performance and the way he has run the war, rating him only slightly better than the general population does.
And among those families with soldiers, sailors and Marines who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan, 60% say that the war in Iraq was not worth the cost, the same result as all adults surveyed.
for the full story see http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/timespoll/la-na-militpoll7dec07,0,4843202.story