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Global opposition in wake of 'Key of Knowledge' award to Morgan Freeman in Toronto
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22.5.2013 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The Toronto gala celebration has become the subject of powerful international criticism, with Desmond Tutu and anti-apartheid icon Ahmed 'Kathy' Kathrada adding their voices to those opposed.
A number of Toronto organizations -- including Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Faculty for Palestine, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, Students Against Israeli Apartheid, Independent Jewish Voices (Toronto), the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Women in Solidarity with Palestine, and Labour for Palestine (Toronto) -- recently protested an award gala where actor Morgan Freeman was given the 'Key of Knowledge.' They have now released this follow-up statement.
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Should We Rebuild After Natural Disasters?
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22.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| To rebuild or not to rebuild? As recovery slowly begins after deadly tornadoes flattened subdivisions in Moore, Okla., and tore through nearby areas, the complex... |
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Many Insurance Payments Won't Cut It After Oklahoma Disaster
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22.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| As people in central Oklahoma emerge from the wreckage of the tornado that flattened entire neighborhoods, some will face another bitter realization: Residents of Moore... |
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LOOK: The Deadliest States For Tornadoes
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22.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Recent extreme weather events seem to reach into unlikely corners of the U.S., but the massive tornado that devastated Moore, Okla., on Monday tore right... |
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Child Identified As Tornado Victim
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22.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Nine-year-old Ja'Nae Hornsby was confirmed dead by multiple news sources following a tornado that tore through Moore, Okla., on Monday. Ja'Nae's father confirmed the girl's... |
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Melting Glaciers
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21.5.2013 |
Green Technology and Environmental Science News - ENN |
Most of the world's frozen water is locked up at the poles. 99 percent of Earth’s land ice is located in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Yet the remaining ice in the world’s glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two major ice sheets combined from 2003 to 2009, says a new study led by Clark University and involving the University Colorado Boulder. The new research found that all glacial regions lost significant mass from 2003 to 2009, with the biggest ice losses occurring in Arctic Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes and the Himalayas. The glaciers outside of the Greenland and Antarctic sheets lost an average of roughly 260 billion metric tons of ice annually during the study period, causing the oceans to rise 0.03 inches, or about 0.7 millimeters per year. |
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Young designers impress at ICFF
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21.5.2013 |
TreeHugger |
Between the Designboom Mart, the Bernhardt Design exhibitors and the student work, young designers give ICFF its spark. |
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Video: Palestine solidarity activists protest Toronto awards gala featuring Morgan Freeman
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21.5.2013 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
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May 21, 2013
CAIA protested outside the venue where Morgan Freeman accepted an award from Canadian Friends of Hebrew University, ignoring the cultural and academic boycott of Israel.
Best-of-the-Net video: On May 6 CAIA protested outside the venue where Morgan Freeman accepted an award from Canadian Friends of Hebrew University, ignoring the cultural and academic boycott of Israel launched by Palestinian civil society in 2005. Radio host Jian Ghomeshi was emcee of the event. ... |
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Getting to One-Planet Living
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21.5.2013 |
Worldwatch Institute |
| Worldwatch Institute"s State of the World 2013 explores new ways to measure sustainability and live within our planet"s boundaries
Washington, D.C. —As the world continues down the path of unmitigated and unsustainable development, it is becoming increasingly clear that we have successfully pushed ourselves out of the stable geological era of the Holocene and into the more volatile and unpredictable Anthropocene. Nevertheless, many remain blissfully unaware of this truth due to the fact that ecosystem thresholds are not always marked with warning signs of impending danger. Unfortunately, this means that we may actually pass through a tipping point unaware because it is quite possible that nothing significant will happen at first.
In State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? , the Worldwatch Institute ( www.worldwatch.org ) discusses the need to collectively stay within our planetary boundaries if we wish to achieve environmental sustainability and return ... |
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Texas Ends Major School Curriculum System Amid Concerns It Was 'Anti-American'
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21.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Texas will discontinue the state-run curriculum system used by at least 875 of the state’s school districts amid complaints that it contained lessons with an... |
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PHOTOS: Tornado Aftermath Leaves Trail Of Destruction
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21.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| By Alice Mannette Ian Simpson MOORE, Okla., May 21 (Reuters) - Pre-dawn emergency workers searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, primary schools... |
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Majority Of Americans Still Believe In JFK Conspiracy, But Not As Much As Before
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21.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Fewer Americans now believe that the JFK assassination was part of an elaborate conspiracy. In a matter of ten years, the belief that Lee Harvey... |
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Her Invention Could Change How You Use Your Cell Phone (VIDEO)
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21.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Eesha Khare, an 18-year-old student at Lynbrook High School in California, made a technological discovery that has the potential to change the future of how... |
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How To Help Oklahoma
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21.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| A massive tornado touched down Monday in Moore, Okla., near Oklahoma City, leveling the area to little more than debris. According to the Associated Press,... |
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PHOTOS: Tornado Devastates Moore, Oklahoma
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21.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| A tornado hit the city of Moore, Oklahoma on Monday, leaving behind significant destruction. The twister is one in a series of tornadoes that swept... |
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Politics in the Pub: Education - the way forward
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21.5.2013 |
Green Left Weekly issue #780 |
| The Rod Brooks Memorial Forum. Hosted by the Blue Mountains Unions Council.
Speakers:
Kenneth Davidson - Senior economic columnist, Melbourne Age
Jude Pearce - Sydney university student
Genevieve Kelly - NSW secretary, National Tertiary Education Union
2.30-4.30pm
Saturday June 1
Blackburn's Family Hotel, 15 Parke St, Katoomba
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Sat, 01/06/2013 - 2:30pm 4:30pm
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Tue, 01/01/2013 - 2:30pm
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The Chicago Board of Education Votes This Week Whether to Shut Down Fifty-four Schools
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21.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
 Public school teachers cheer outside the Chicago Board of Education district headquarters on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong) Chicago is braced for a critical vote by the Board of Education this week to determine if fifty-four schools will be closed.
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Non-native goats and iguanas threaten Pacific islands
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20.5.2013 |
Environmental News Network |
Feral goats and green iguanas wreaking havoc with the ecosystems in the small islands in the Pacific, biologists warn, in two separate studies published in Pacific Science last month, calling for control or elimination of these animals. The animals have been introduced there by humans, but are now threatening the survival of native wildlife. |
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What Do We Eat? New Food Map Will Tell Us
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20.5.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought. Same goes for soda.... |
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WATCH: 'Monty Python' Star's Second Amendment Joke
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20.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| British comedian Eric Idle took a swipe at former President George W. Bush and the Second Amendment as he counseled graduates in his commencement address... |
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