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A New Chapter of Food Not Bombs has been brought together in Wilkes-Barre PA

On May 23, in Stockholm, an international treaty was signed, even by the U.S., to ban the "Dirty Dozen" worst POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants). At least 50 of the signatory nations have to ratifiy it to put it into effect.

The toxic/cancer-causing elements are: Dioxin, PCBs, Furans, Dieldrin, Heptachlor, Toxaphene, Aldrin, Endrin, Mirex, Hexachlorobenzene and DDT.

Eight of these have been and/or still are in typical (non-organic) cigarettes. This has, so far, not been pointed out in the press. Though many have been banned for USE in the U.S., some come back to us via the infamous Circle of Poison. DDT, banned since 70's comes to uninformed, unprotected smokers (& 2nd hand smokers) thanks to lax Customs and USDA inspections of import tobacco...plus some DDT residues in some soils.

Dioxins, unwanted by-products of Dow-developed chlorine, is in typical cigs in HIGH levels (!) from chlorine-bleached paper, many contaminated agricultural additives (not on any ingredients label), about a third of the very many pesticide residues, and from the chlorine contaminted industrial waste cellulose that is used (w/out telling cousumers) to make fake tobacco.

It's a long story but....the chances that the GW Bush admininistration, up to HERE in chlorine and petrochemicals and plastics and pharmaceuticals and so forth...all wallowing in chlorine..., will actually work to ban dioxins is Zero or lower....no matter HOW much a threat it is to humans and animals across the globe.
Chlorine isn't necessary for about 99% of its uses. It's just more profitable for the industries than the available benign alternatives (hemp technologies being one of note) AS LONG AS they don't have to pay for the deaths and diseases and animal extinctions and so forth.

A ban on dioxins means, inevitably a ban or severe restrictions on all chlorine uses. Big Petroleum, Big Pesticide, Big Paper, Big Plastics, Big Pharmaceuticals, Big Petrochemical (Why so many p's ?), Big Auto and a host of others WILL NOT give up chlorine, period...without unprecedented Public Action.

Dioxin is literally linked to ALL diseases on earth by just ONE of its many characteristics, that of Immune Suppressor. It's also a KNOWN carcinogen, the worst, highest level. It's still "LEGAL" in typical cigarettes!! It's still "LEGAL" in industrial uses all over the place! You, the victim, have to buy insurance (from insurers which invest in Big Chlorine) and hope for "the cure" from other chlorine-using industries....if you have enough money. This chlorine cartel makes huge fortunes poisoning you and then, to add insult to injury, makes another fortune being your "health care provider". It's all legal because, of course, virtually ALL the government officials get "campaign funding" (bribes) from some or most of these interests...or they are allowed to have other economic links.

Anyway...it just seems important to note that those "concerned" news stories one may read are almost invariably printed on chlorine bleached paper that, in some stage of its life, send dioxins out to create more victims.

A unique school is gone from the map of University City. Parents and friends say the University City New School had achieved the diverse community and the exceptional, experiential curriculum it sought to build.
Why, then, has the neighborhood let the school slip off the map?

Student-teacher-poet June Jordan’s work has powerfully marked the pages of the canon, the towers of the University of California at Berkeley, the walls of grade school classrooms in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City.

He dared to ask questions. Sorry. He was fired. Now he tells the whole world and exposes the myth of helping poor countries.

Cincinnati Ya Basta! Collective calls for a Yellow Overalls Formation for June 2nd.

New York—On April 7, approximately 5,000 people gathered in New York City to demand the right of Palestinians to return to their homeland and to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre of hundreds of Palestinian civilians by the Irgun, a terrorist group led by future Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin . Protesters from many cities in the U.S. and Canada demanded the right of return for the nearly 5 million Palestinian refugees living in exile and protested Israeli forces’ brutal siege of Palestinian villages all over the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

On April 29, 2001, George W. Bush completed his first 100 days in office as President of the United States - the period historically used as a benchmark to measure progress and determine the prevailing political direction of the new government. While Bush campaigned under the slogan "compassionate conservatism," almost all major policy initiatives put forth since his inauguration in January are far more conservative than compassionate. Most of the legislative and policy proposals fall under one of five general categories: environmental issues, women’s rights, tax-cut legislation, missile defense, and faith-based initiatives.

While politicians struggle to find solutions to our city’s problems, Buddhist nun Ani-La Gen Kelsang Norden’s plan for urban blight and street violence is to create more peaceful minds, one Philadelphian at a time, one guided meditation at a time.