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      <title>Environmental Activists Expose Dangers of E-Waste</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;November 14, 2008, Delhi, India: In the streets of Mustaffabad, a poor
quarter of Delhi, children in sandals sit on top of piles of broken
glass and twisted metal, smashing computer monitors. Men with
blowtorches melt circuit boards, while nearby, women sort and scrub
other boards with diluted acid. Charred fiberglass and copper dust
litter the ground. &lt;br /&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt; This is the world of the electronic waste (e-waste) recyclers, who make
a living by tearing apart the toxic remains of old home computers, cell
phones and printer cartridges from the United States and other
coun...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:48:26 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1629</link>
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      <title>Environmentalist Preaches Conservation as Chaos Engulfs Eastern Congo</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Environmentalist Preaches Conservation as Chaos Engulfs Eastern Congo &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; November 4, 2008, Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo: With little more
than a motorbike and a mission, Clement Kitambala has been spreading
news about environmental issues in remote communities of the
war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Amid renewed fighting that has displaced more than 130,000, ongoing
food crises and rampant sexual violence, his newsletter, Tunza
Mazingira ("Conserve the Environment" in Swahili), has provided a
steady voice for conserva...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:46:25 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1626</link>
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      <title>Enviro-Friendly Cookies</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Enter Message / description of files attached:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A CBC Montreal news report on Felix &amp;amp; Norton's Urgence-Biscuits mobile cookie bakery, and the owners'&amp;nbsp;social&amp;nbsp;entrepreneurship efforts.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:44:01 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1623</link>
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      <title>Heroes of Healing</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;When I was diagnosed with several dis-eases I was told by doctors I would only get worse, to be on pain pills and life looked grim.&amp;nbsp; Through learning about the mind/body connection I was able to find teachers I resonated with to study so that I could heal myself.&amp;nbsp; Two years later I am healthier than ever.&amp;nbsp; I began to think about how wonderful it would be to have a large resource of inspirational leaders so that&amp;nbsp; people would have one spot to go to -- to view some videos, hear about what others had learned about them and find out more about different modalities to heal...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:44:54 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1615</link>
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      <title>Electric Cars Legalized in Vancouver</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;"Vancouver city council voted Tuesday afternoon to give a green light to low-speed electric vehicles..."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"...The small light cars are already allowed under B.C. law to travel on
roads with a speed limit of 40 km per hour or less, but are only
allowed on roads with faster speed limits when municipalities vote to
permit them..."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At least there is some progress! Way to Go Zenn and the province of British Columbia :)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:59:30 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1612</link>
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      <title>The Bloc Party</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I fondly remember the days when all we&amp;nbsp;
worried about was &lt;span id="lw_1222887917_0" style="cursor: pointer;"&gt;&lt;span class="yshortcuts"&gt;climate change&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!&amp;nbsp; Watching Paulson, Obama,
McCain, Bush, the &lt;span id="lw_1222887917_1" style="cursor: pointer;"&gt;&lt;span class="yshortcuts"&gt;Dow Jones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and everything else makes social
change seem like a &lt;span id="lw_1222887917_2" style="cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; background-attachment: scroll;"&gt;&lt;span class="ysho...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New Post: Finally! - Li Li Parsons</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:25:17 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>It's been a while but here's a new article.  No time like the present, with all of the current chaos, to be Present!
Li Li

http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1608

Feedback appreciated! 
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      <title>Don't Patronize Me: The Economy 101</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I have now seen at least a dozen television commercials and psuedo-short-documentaries and news blurbs about "how we got into this financial mess" and "what exactly is a credit crunch?"&amp;nbsp; I find it to be rude, disdainful, patronizing and insulting that somehow, we (the American public) are deemed too ignorant to understand what has brought us, collectively, to the edge of financial ruin.&amp;nbsp; Some of these pieces of "information" are delivered in cartoon format, no less, which gives me the eery feeling of being four years old and watching School House Rock, learning how a Bill becom...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:55:20 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Otesha is Hiring: High School Programs Director</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Otesha Project is hiring a new High School Programs Director!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See the attached job description, or check http://www.otesha.ca/files/HSProgramsDirector08.pdf for more information.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:00:11 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>International Day of Peace Celebration</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Please join us in a celebration of International Peace Day ! Tickets
are $40 and 25% of the proceeds will be donated to War Child of Canada
to aide in their efforts to provide assistance to war-affected children
around the world. A tax deductible receipt will be issued for every
ticket purchase. For more information on War Child of Canada please
check out their website at: &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.warchild.ca/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.warchild.ca/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Space is limited so please R.S.V.P. before September 8, 2008 to Mr. John Daniele, (416) 799-2173.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:15:26 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1567</link>
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      <title>New Post - Li Li Parsons</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:03:11 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>New posting 

http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1528

My illustration will have to be added soon.  I am posting this from a remote location nowhere near my scanner.  Enjoy!

Li Li
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      <title>I Am NOT My Credit Score: I Am So Much More</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This past month or so I have been busy with a lot of financial investigations.&amp;nbsp; I am looking at beginning to pay off my student loans, perhaps moving to a new apartment, and eventually having to trade in my old automobile.&amp;nbsp; As anyone who has applied for loans or leases has discovered, it matters little who you actually are when the decisions are made about offering you an apartment, an auto loan, an interest rate...&amp;nbsp; What matters most in the eyes of the lending institution (my what a telling word: "institution") is a small three-digit number attached to your Social Securit...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:38:05 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Hello from Big Sur - Alec Henderson</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:14:48 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>Hello everyone, 

After spending two months deep in the mountains of California's Central coast I and the majority of monks at the Tassajara Monastery have been evacuated due to the recent fires. My friends at the LA Times wrote a front page article http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-fires28-2008jun28,0,4613015,full.story
on our plight and this has generated some significant publicity. 

I am hold up in Santa Cruz with the monastery dog, Ginger. She and I are well and blogging at 

http://sittingwithginger.blogspot.com/

I am only back on the grid until we can ret...</description>
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      <title>new post, part 2 of Elder Brothers article - Li Li Parsons</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:12:26 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>here's the link:

http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1469

Feedback always welcomed!!!

Li Li</description>
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      <title>Easy Ways You Can Help Conserve Rainforests</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-large; font-family: Cheltenham-Bold;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-family: Formata-Medium;"&gt;Choose foods grown on farms certified by the Rainforest Alliance&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-family: Formata-Medium;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;p align="left"&gt;Buy coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, bananas, orange juice, g...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:54:33 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/102</link>
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      <title>New post - Li Li Parsons</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 18:03:04 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>here's the link:

http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1399

Feedback and evaluation is always welcomed!!
Some of you are getting this notice twice, as you are also on my personal email list.   Apologies for the duplicate!

Li Li</description>
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      <title>Summer Job with Web Startup Company</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;BetterLesson has summer jobs available in the Research and Field Organizing departments.&amp;nbsp; We are looking for dedicated educators with at least one year&amp;rsquo;s classroom experience to help us dramatically improve the lives of teachers and the quality of the instruction they deliver to students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interested candidates should send a resume, cover letter, and writing sample to cooper@betterlesson.org&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 14:04:41 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/101</link>
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      <title>Founding Director of Product Research</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;We are looking for someone with a keen interest in education technology and policy to head up our product research team.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; We are looking for someone who is anxious to immerse him/herself in education technology and policy in order to help craft the long term vision of the website.&amp;nbsp; The right candidate will: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Have 1 or more years of prior research experience&lt;br /&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Have prior experience in the fields of education technology and/or policy.&lt;br /&gt;3.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Possess strong writing and strategic thinking skills. &amp;nbsp...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 14:02:37 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/100</link>
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      <title>Founding-Level National Field Director</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;We have begun an aggressive grassroots effort to reach out to educators across the country.&amp;nbsp; We are looking to hire someone with a minimum of two years&amp;rsquo; classroom experience to lead this effort.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The right candidate will: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Have some prior experience in outreach, recruitment, or sales &lt;br /&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Be exceptionally organized, creative, persuasive, extroverted, and resourceful.&lt;br /&gt;3.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Possess strong leadership, critical thinking, and writing skills. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;4.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Be committed to the soc...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 13:59:37 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/99</link>
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      <title>News Post: the Kogi Mamas and their Warning! - Li Li Parsons</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:46:22 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>Go to this link:

http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1326

Thank you... be awake, be aware, be engaged!

Li</description>
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      <title>New video posting - Li Li Parsons</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:53:48 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>I have posted a new video and article in the newsfeed.  Please watch/read and support our growing citizen journalism!

Here's the link:

http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1278

I believe that I have that right.  if I got a little dyslexic there, I will remedy it and send another email with the proper link.

Thanks!
Li Li</description>
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      <title>new rethos journalism posts from Li Li - Li Li Parsons</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:54:14 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>Here are the links for my latest pieces.  Great work, everyone, btw!  This month we've seen some really high quality journalism and commentary.  YAWP!

http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1249

http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1251

Li Li</description>
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      <title>New Post - Li Li Parsons</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:54:34 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>Here's the link to the latest post!

http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1195

Thanks in advance for everyone's support.  I am enjoying the latest batch of journalistic inspirations.

Li Li</description>
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      <title>new post/newsfeed - Li Li Parsons</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:09:56 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Hey there everyone... check out the new post!  Here's the link:

http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1152

Please read when you have time, rate it, give feedback... frwrd to anyone who might get something out of it...thanks all!
Li Li </description>
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      <title>Youth Rising Los Angeles Summit</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Evening event as well!&amp;nbsp; A fundraiser for the youth projects created during the day...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Register if you're 15-24 at www.youthnoise.com/summit&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:03:22 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/86</link>
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      <title>Internship Opportunity - Tour Liaisons</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;div class="content"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Internship Opportunity&amp;mdash;Tour Liaison&lt;br /&gt;Otesha Cycling and Performing Tours &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.otesha.ca/"&gt;www.otesha.ca&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Otesha Project is seeking 14 dedicated, organized, fun-loving individuals, aged 18 to 30, to serve as Tour Liaisons for its 2008 cycling and performing tours. As part of a team of 15 to 20 performers, you will take care of all administrative and on-the-road logistics for the tour. Successful candidates will support team members as individuals, foster a positive team environment, support teams in achieving tour object...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:51:37 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/82</link>
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      <title>Correction of the web address! - Philip McMaster</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:21:39 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Sorry, CORRECTION... the web address is:
http://www.sustainabilitysymbol.COM    hope to see you online February 1st --- Don't forget to invite 3 people to share a 3 finger Photo!</description>
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      <title>You're invited to Celebrate the One Year Anniversary of 3 Finger "Peace Plus One" - Philip McMaster</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:39:48 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Hello Sustainability Symbol Friends around the WORLD (Especially in Beijing) - 

IT'S A PARTY / CELEBRATION of the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol... and we're having a WEB-CAM World Party connecting YOUR town with Beijing China, site of the 2008 Olympics.  

You are most welcome to attend our party celebration for the One Year Anniversary of the 3 Finger "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbol on February 1st at 

7pm - 9pm
Friday, Feb 1st
The Bookworm
Building 4, Nan sanlitun Road
Chao Yang District, Beijing
Tel: 65869507
www.chinabookworm.com

Plea...</description>
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      <title>New comment - Lakota Declare Independance from USA</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Lynx, fascinating article, and a really interesting debate; thanks for the post. Hard to beleive it&amp;#8217;s really happening, even when evidence is staring you in the face.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I agree absolutely that the US government has mistreated the Lakota (and all native American people), however I can&amp;#8217;t help feeling that absolute secession is misguided. I worry that people seem to prefer splintering into smaller groups rather than embracing a united humanity.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Okay, that last is a little idealistic&amp;#8230; I totally agree in local, sympathetic government &amp;#8211; like the &lt;span ...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:13:53 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/966</link>
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      <title>Who Will Be The Power Behind The "Throne"?</title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Attention, Voters in 2008!!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;When you step up to the ballot box this year, you will not just be voting for the Presidential ticket&amp;#8230; the man or woman who shall be the next President of the United States for four years and the man or woman who will be the Vice-President for the next four years&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;You are voting for every man and woman whom the President shall appoint to his/her Cabinet, the White House Staff, the Supreme Court, and the Ambassadors to whom shall fall the responsibility of representing us to the rest of the World.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;We do not make this a ...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:00:54 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1041</link>
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      <title>American Imperialism: Second Thoughts on Charlie Wilson&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s War                 &lt;p&gt;           by Chalmers Johnson &lt;/p&gt;</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;As the presidential election approaches it may be tempting to associate US Imperialist behavior with Republicans alone. Try to resist. This article is a clear and intelligent primer on the historical antecedents to our current global nightmare. And the administration occupying the point position here is not GW&amp;#8217;s but rather that of the Noble Peace prize winning Jimmy Carter, America&amp;#8217;s favorite ex-prez. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The events of 9/11 were forged during the Carter administration when then defense secretary, Zbignew Brezinsky, the true architect of 9/11 advised the president to auth...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:10:03 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1039</link>
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      <title>Doing Philanthropy the Google Way</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is a great article about the changing landscape of philanthropy. As it has the worlds of search, advertising and online media, Google is disrupting and evolving the nature of corporate philanthropy by taking an entrepreneurial approach as opposed to a charitable approach to solving societal problems.  Says Susan Raymond, senior managing director for research and chief analyst at OnPhilanthropy, about Google.org and its new, entrepreneurial attitude towards philanthropy: &amp;#8220;Instead of just giving a man a fish, or even teaching him to fish, a social entrepreneur would invest in hi...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:27:07 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1015</link>
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      <title>New comment - Lakota Declare Independance from USA</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Lynx&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Regarding the Lakota Freedom I can agree with you on the manipulation by the government however the tribe needs to take responsibility for the way they have mis-handled the allocated funds and allowed such control.  For the most part the people want change but they are not willing to make the painful but necessary changes that need to be made.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;This article is posted at www.chadrad.com and I think it will interest you.  Not far from where I live (20 miles west) in Crawford, NE. there is a large uranium mine.  the owners want another 2000 acres.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;(NE) Coul...</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;dawn &amp;#8211; bringing more economic activity to the rez would definitely be a good thing, as you trightly point out.  for the record that&amp;#8217;s not what robert suggested, he suggested the rez&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8211; the only land in the country still nominally under native rule &amp;#8211; should be abolished and the tribal governments essentially converted into corporations.  which is a very very different thing then what you are suggesting.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;i think you&amp;#8217;ll find, if you follow the link provided in the article, that the Lakota involved in the independence campaign aren&amp;#8217;t parti...</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;In this modern era, our lives revolve around newer and newer technology. With the development of newer technology the things that we use everyday to carry out the functions of our daily lives now required more sources energy than ever before. That gas powered snow blower used to clear driveways in the winter replaced that hand powered shovel in the corner of the garage.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;The biggest problem that comes from using these modern devices is the energy consumption of it. There is only a limited amount of resources available on the earth that can provide energy. One of the biggest prod...</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I would like to respond to this article. The statistics above are accurate, I should know, I live just south of Pine Ridge South Dakota in Nebraska and I&amp;#8217;m the intake coordinator for a substance abuse treatment center 20 mins from Pine Ridge, Wounded Knee, Porcupine, etc&amp;#8230;  I compile the outcome measures and statistics for our fiscal report and my calculations match up with the stats above.  I understand what Robert is saying about bringing business to the reservations. The tribe is too connected and entrenched in government funding. If they pull funding the tribe will have mo...</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Robert, don&amp;#8217;t be condescending.  of course I know about the history of US imperialism vs. native people, wounded knee included.  that&amp;#8217;s why this move by the lakota is so important.  and nobody&amp;#8217;s talking about shedding blood, this is in&amp;#8217;t a military move, it&amp;#8217;s diplomatic and completely within legal channels.  they&amp;#8217;re not even holding protests that the feds could attack, instead they&amp;#8217;re filing lawsuits and seeking diplomatic recognition.  as far as being &amp;#8220;for the sake of anarchy&amp;#8221;, please do us all a favor and take the time to research a...</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Linx-The U.S. does not have a good track record when it comes to being compassionate about First Nation Issues.  Have you ever come accross Wounded Knee in your studies?  Despite the perceived legality of Secession, the reality of the situation is that US response has been shown through history as being swift and without compassion.  I see no real practicial reason to see my brother&amp;#8217;s blood shed needlessly (except for the sake of anarchy) when there are other means available.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;robert &amp;#8211; it is absolutely &lt;span class="caps"&gt;NOT&lt;/span&gt; an act of treason for a conquered nation to exercise their legal right to withdraw from a union they never willingly joined.  lakota independence is 100% legal and an entirely appropriate response to ongoing genocidal policies by the settler government.   being connected to the land is beautiful, but it doesn&amp;#8217;t require being connected to the empire.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This article and lynx&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s response to my previous comment overlooks a crucial fact:  our heritage is not tied to a piece of real estate.  We are part of the land, despite any and all potilical conditions.  Even though we are a conquered nation, we don&#226;&#8364;&#8482;t have to accept the &#226;&#8364;&#339;benevolence&#226;&#8364;&#157; of the conquering race such as reserves and token handouts.  Our identity is based on the strength of our connection to the land.  The blood that courses through our veins come from the same source that emits the waters for our rivers and lakes, the nutrients and warmth that feed the plants that grow...</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;deb,  the answer is the the &lt;span class="caps"&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;USA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; isn&#226;&#8364;&#8482;t really interested in helping the Palestinians, not when we&#226;&#8364;&#8482;re giving $80 billion + a year in military aid to the Israeli&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s to help murder them.   US presidents for decades now have mad a show of helping to negotiate &#226;&#8364;&#339;peace&#226;&#8364;&#157;because we need oil from Palestine&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s Arab neighbors who are less then pleased at the genocide we are supporting, but it&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s really a stalling tactic that allows Israeli &#226;&#8364;&#339;settlements&#226;&#8364;&#157; to take ever larger chunks of Palestinian land and for us to continue purchasing l...</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;That note of &amp;#8220;who was here first&amp;#8221; sounds so first gradish.  We are adults, the human species &amp;#8211; so far as we have evolved anyway.  NO, I don&amp;#8217;t think this president will.  There   are too many injustices in this world and I can&amp;#8217;t quit living because I can&amp;#8217;t change them; but I can change my heart, my mind. Increase the &amp;#8220;letting go&amp;#8221; experience and hope that mankind will one day find that  we are all from &lt;span class="caps"&gt;ONE&lt;/span&gt; source&amp;#8212;what or how that is I cannot say, but I do believe that.  In the meantime, I am going to live my li...</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;As a person with First Nation ancestry, I have found that using materialism based statistics as social indicators does not provide a clear illustration of social conditions. A more profound approach would relate On-Reserve conditions to those experienced by First Nation individuals living off reserve.  Its fairly well known that conditions experienced in reserves would not be tolerated in other communities (building codes, health codes and such have been developed to deal with substandard conditions).  The apartheid like system of reserves serves mostly to segregate and isolate, and furt...</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;JUSTICE&lt;/span&gt; is  often a dream for those most deserving of it, and well is it known that uncountable are the masses who have lived to wait out the rule of Law (as it is supposedly understood in this greatest of all countries).  But this nation, known as America, was stolen from those who had lived in peace and prosperity with common and cosmic driving forces through not only declarations and treaties entered into with little more than a trusting certificate of title; in a time, unremarkable for anything so heinous as brought about in the language of genocide, on this...</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks for posting this article.  I agree everyone should respect the rights of the Indigenous peoples and recognize the Lakota nation as independent from the US.  Not sure why this would be controversial&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Otesha Project has announced the routes for the 2008 Otesha Cycling and Performing Tours (Check out: www.otesha.ca/bike+tours/index.en.html). Applications are now being accepted for seven regional tours throughout Canada that will take more than 120 inspiring young change-makers on the journey of a lifetime. You could be one of them!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Tour members will share an incredible experience as they live as a mobile and sustainable community for two months. They will cycle from performance to performance, braving the elements, connecting with communities along the route, and explorin...</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;King or Queen of your own sustainability domain&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you so much for posting about this amazing book!  I have just finished reading this, and I congratulate Bill Milliken on his profound faith in our children, our educators and in the transformation of a system that often appears too broken to fix.  
I too have watched Freedom Writers.  Even though I know the true story was idealized a bit for film, the heart of it is true and the persistence of teacher and students&amp;#8230; to tell their stories, to be heard, to &lt;span class="caps"&gt;DEMAND&lt;/span&gt; their own real voice&amp;#8230; is something inspiring and optimistic.
yeah!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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	&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.savedarfur.org/page/event/detail/4jjgb#rsvp"&gt;Click here to sign up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Very awesome. I&amp;#8217;m excited about the 15th!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;the media are bound to pick up on this, good idea&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I hope the change is close Jason&amp;#8212;I need to believe it is close for the sake of all who I love and the beautiful planet we live on. I am going to do my part and encourage others to step up.  Great post! Jenny&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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