http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/15/who_goes_to_jail_matt_taibbi
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Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on American Injustice Gap from Wall Street to Main Street | Democracy Now!
Posted on April 20, 2014 by hanshowe
Novel Open Source Seed Pledge aims to keep new vegetable and grain varieties free for all
Posted on April 18, 2014 by hanshowe
Novel Open Source Seed Pledge aims to keep new vegetable and grain varieties free for all
April 15, 2014 by Nicole Miller
Jack Kloppenburg (left), professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, Irwin Goldman (center), chair of the Department of Horticulture, and Claire Luby (right), graduate student in the UW’s Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics program, fill envelopes with non-patented seeds in the Horticulture office in Moore Hall.
Photo: Bryce Richter
This week, scientists, farmers and sustainable food systems advocates will gather on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to celebrate an unusual group of honored guests: 29 new varieties of broccoli, celery, kale, quinoa and other vegetables and grains that are being publicly released using a novel form of ownership agreement known as the Open Source Seed Pledge.
The pledge, which was developed through a UW-Madison-led effort known as the Open Source Seed Initiative, is designed to keep the new seeds free for all people to grow, breed and share for perpetuity, with the goal of protecting the plants from patents and other restrictions down the line.
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Call climate change what it is: violence … Rebecca Solnit
Posted on April 16, 2014 by hanshowe
… 
if you’re tremendously wealthy, you can practice industrial-scale violence without any manual labor on your own part. You can, say, build a sweatshop factory that will collapse in Bangladesh and kill more people than any hands-on mass murderer ever did, or you can calculate risk and benefit about putting poisons or unsafe machines into the world, as manufacturers do every day. If you’re the leader of a country, you can declare war and kill by the hundreds of thousands or millions. And the nuclear superpowers the US and Russia still hold the option of destroying quite a lot of life on Earth.
So do the carbon barons. But when we talk about violence, we almost always talk about violence from below, not above.
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The Woody Allen Allegations: Not So Fast – The Daily Beast
Posted on February 2, 2014 by hanshowe
So proud !! WooHoo…
Posted on January 31, 2014 by hanshowe
Aren’t you too ? Incarceration Rates. YAY!! WE WIN !!
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