New Orleans Something very exciting seems to be happening in this presidential race. The fact that the McCain campaign refers Obama as “the One” just about says it all. Seeing the pictures on television and the newspapers of the crowds that listened to Obama speak in Berlin were amazing. German police estimate that …
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San Francisco In one of the final, powerful sets of Tides Momentum presentations a woman named Mary Anne Hitt, the executive director of Appalachian Voices, spoke about “mountain top removal” or what coal mountain removal and the destruction of 450 mountains in Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. There was a standing ovation from the crowd. …
An Urban Hesperian Connection
San Francisco Recently we saluted the new book, A Community Guide to Environmental Health by Jeff Conant and Pam Fadem that was published as a huge contribution and through a herculean effort by the well regarded Hesperian Foundation, previously well known for its seminal work, Where There is No Doctor. As ACORN International tries …