Former US Marine Carri Leigh Goodwin was like many young Americans from Alliance, a small town in Ohio. She was self-reliant, teaching herself to play guitar at 15. She wanted more out of life than the limited opportunities offered in her home town.
“There is basically no significant change in the fundamental traditional conception that if we can control Middle East energy resources, then we can control the world," says Noam Chomsky.
A major dilemma facing social movements across Latin America is how to deal with the state -- or avoid it -- when working for social change. This Toward Freedom-organized Left Forum panel and discussion will look at this contemporary relationship in Honduras, Bolivia, Venezuela and Argentina.
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The immediate concern is how to contain the crisis in Japan’s nuclear plants. But thoughts are also turning to the future and, in the world’s two big industrial blocs, the politics of nuclear power has already changed.
In Germany, there’s already been a long debate about what to do with the country’s 17 nuclear power stations. Last October, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government decided, with much opposition, to extend their lives by another 12 years so that the last one is now due to be closed in 2035.
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Union leaders urged Vice President Joe Biden during a White House meeting last month to go to Wisconsin and rally the faithful in their fight against Gov. Scott Walker’s move to curtail collective bargaining rights for most public employees.
Request rebuffed, they asked for Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.
So far, however, the White House has stayed away from any trips to Madison, the state capital, or other states in the throes of union battles. The Obama administration is treading carefully on the contentious political issue that has led to a national debate over the power that public sector unions wield in negotiating wages and benefits.
The United Nations’ response to the conflict in Libya may have persuaded members of the Gaddafi regime that they have no option other than to fight for their survival.
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