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Tending ‘the Grow’: Marijuana at a Crossroads

Michael Polson February 1, 2010 Michael Polson

Photo by Joshua Smith
In the warm, luminescent glow of the dust encrusted light fixture, the carpeted and dank hallway disappears into unvacuumed recesses. Darren grabs an unobtrusive handle along the wall's flimsy wood paneling, pulls, and a crack of light pierces the gloom. Pushing aside a black screen of Hefty bags intended to block light and trap heat, he reveals his miniature grow closet. A heavy, supple branch tumbles out. It brushes my hand, leaving a telltale streak of sticky, stinky moistness. The resin goes away with a bit of water. The smell stays.

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Iraq Inquiry Panel: Britain’s Pride and Shame

Stefan Simanowitz January 27, 2010 Stefan Simanowitz

By the end of his six hour cross examination by the Iraq Inquiry panel in London, Tony Blair's former director of communications and strategy, Alastair Campbell, must have felt as if he had been, in the immortal phrase of a veteran British politician, "savaged by a dead sheep." Arriving at the Chilcot Inquiry, the bags under his eyes suggested that Tony Blair's former communications and strategy director might have suffered a few sleepless nights.

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Voices of Participatory Democracy in Venezuela

Hans Bennett January 26, 2010 Hans Bennett

There are many different ways that the corporate media continues to misrepresent the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Many critics of this biased media coverage have directly challenged the demonization of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, but very few critics, if any, have exposed the media's virtual erasure of the vibrant and growing participatory democracy in Venezuela.

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Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots – Vermont Event Announcement

Toward Freedom January 21, 2010 Toward Freedom

Toward Freedom presents:

Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots
Book Presentation & Discussion
Join co-authors Carlos Martinez, Michael Fox, and photographer Sílvia Leindecker

Monday, February 1st
6:30pm at Burlington College
Free

Community Room
95 North Avenue, Burlington, VT
Burlington.edu
Call 802-540-2516 for more info.
Organized by Toward Freedom

While Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez continues to capture headlines, a much larger story involving a wider cast of characters has gone largely ignored. Venezuela Speaks!, published by PM Press, is a collection of interviews with activists and participants from across Venezuela’s social movements. From community media to land reform, cooperatives to communal councils, from the labor movement to the Afro-Venezuelan network, Venezuela Speaks! sheds light on the complex realities within the Bolivarian Revolution. read more

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We Have Met the Enemy – and They’re Not in Yemen

Sandy LeonVest January 20, 2010 Sandy LeonVest

Sana'a, Capital of Yemen
In response to the failed Christmas day bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253, US officials and the Obama administration made a very public show of shifting their already turbo-charged 'war on terror' into overdrive. Here in the US, officials - aided by the corporate media - attempted to reassure a terror-weary American public with nationally televised displays of stepped up screenings at airports, increased numbers of air marshals on international flights and the addition of hundreds of names to the CIA's 'terrorist watch list.'