Janet Biehl, author of a newly published book about Vermont social ecologist Murray Bookchin, will be speaking in Burlington, VT on November 19thabout her recent visit to Rojava, Kurdistan where Kurdish men and women have organized themselves into a democratic autonomous region based in part on principles advanced by Bookchin.
The Drug War’s reach is global. As illicit drug use is on the rise in Vermont, another dimension of the Drug War is playing out with unprecedented violence south of the US-Mexico border. Join author Dawn Paley in Burlington, VT on Wednesday, December 17th for a book launch and discussion on her new book Drug War Capitalism.
Join Marina Sitrin, co-author of the new book They Can't Represent Us: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy for a discussion in Burlington, VT on October 5th at the Peace and Justice Center.
Destination Île-à-Vache is a government-driven tourist project planned for a small island off the northern coast of Haiti. Groundbreaking on the project occurred in August, 2013, without the inclusion or participation of the community.
For ongoing updates on protests in Istanbul, Turkey, visit http://www.whatishappeninginistanbul.com/
For background and context to the protests see this page: “It is only the beginning, our struggle continues”
Excerpt:
It started with hundreds of peaceful protesters resisting the demolition of Gezi Park, one of the very few green spaces left in the center of Istanbul. There are plans to replace it with yet another shopping mall. The disproportionate police response to the peaceful Gezi protests has triggered a nationwide revolt within a matter of days. What we have witnessed since the early hours of 30 May is not only a display of the collective will of Istanbul residents claiming their right to the city but also a broad-based rebellion against the authoritarianism of Turkey’s conservative neo-liberal Islamist government.
Source: The Guardian Unlimited
An exclusive golf course backs onto a spacious two-storey house. A coiled green garden hose lies on the lawn. The grey-slatted wooden shutters are closed. And, like the other deserted luxury houses in this gated community near Bryan, Texas, nothing moves.
Retired Colonel Jim Steele, whose military decorations include the Silver Star, the Defence Distinguished Service Medal, four Legions of Merit, three Bronze Stars and the Purple Heart, is not at home. Nor is he at his office headquarters in Geneva, where he is listed as the chief executive officer of Buchanan Renewables, an energy company. Similar efforts to track him down at his company’s office in Monrovia are futile. Messages are left. He doesn’t call back.
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