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Now in its 32nd year, Project Censored finds there is still no shortage of important news that isn't being covered by the major commercial media.
{mp3remote}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/10-8-08.mp3{/mp3remote}Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
- #1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
- # 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA
- # 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
- # 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?
- # 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets
- # 6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
- # 7 Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
- # 8 Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly
- #9 Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify
- # 10 APA Complicit in CIA Torture
- # 11 El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror
- # 12 Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind
- # 13 Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq
- # 14 Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste
- # 15 Worldwide Slavery
- # 16 Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights
- # 17 UN’s Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights
- # 18 Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers
- # 19 Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction
- # 20 Marijuana Arrests Set New Record
- # 21 NATO Considers “First Strike” Nuclear Option
- # 22 CARE Rejects US Food Aid
- # 23 FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs
- # 24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
These stories and more are included in Censored 2009 , the new addition to Project Censored annual review of important, overlooked journalism worldwide. To view the book, along with previous editions, click here .
To visit the Project Censored website which has a listing of their ongoing lecture series click here.
It's one thing to set ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but quite another to map out exactly how Sonoma County can reach the goals it has set.
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Sonoma County's Community Climate Action Plan will be unveiled tonight at the Climate Protection Campaigns office in downtown Santa Rosa, at 31 D Street. The community is invited to the free event which is scheduled 6:30 - 8 pm. For more information, click here. A link to the action plan will also be posted there after Oct. 8.
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Read more about Sonoma County's greenhouse gas reduction goals here
Same sex weddings and Community Impact Reports could both have a notable effect on the Sonoma County economy.
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On October 6, the Petaluma City Council is expected to vote on a resolution requiring Community Impact Reports (CIRs) for new large retail developments in the city, including those shown on this map.
The Living Wage Coalition of Sonoma County is the leading local advocate forCommunity Impact Reports.
For a visiting group of educators from Ukraine, seeing American school classrooms in action was a learning experience.
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To read about the mission and design for the Open World Leadership Center, click here .
The Open World exchange program was established to increase partnership and sharing of economic and democratic practices between the two nations. Sonoma County is one participant in the education program of having Ukraine educators visit for two weeks.
To find out more about the US-Ukraine non profit organization, click here .
Is believing in gods harmful to humankind? Sunsara Taylor believes it is.
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Throughout human history cultures around the globe have developed complex systems of gods and religion. But Taylor questions the idea that these beliefs grow out of an innate aspect of human nature.
{mp3remote}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/myth.mp3{/mp3remote}You can read an excerpt from Away With All Gods here. Or scan the table of Contents here .
From the author's website: Bob Avakian is the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, and he is more than that. He's an innovative and critical thinker who has taken Marxism to a new place; he's a provocative commentator on everything from basketball to religion, doo-wop music to science; and he's a pit-bull fighter against oppression who's kept both his solemn sense of purpose and his irrepressible sense of humor.
