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Unable to recover from financial woes and scandal, community-organizing group ACORN announced March 22 it was disbanding. Since 1970 the group had fought to raise the minimum wage, counseled low-income homeowners and registered the poor to vote. In September a video sting operation run by conservative activists hit the group hard: Congress cut its funding, the Census dropped its partnership, and donations plunged...
...were the stolen e-mails of Climategate that purported to show an attempt to cover up data disputing global warming, the much ballyhooed summit in Copenhagen that ended in disappointment, and the revelation of several errors in the work of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. By March, congressional Republicans were calling for a McCarthy-style investigation into global-warming scientists, and researchers were being inundated with hate mail. Note to science students in search of a major: entomology is looking nice these days...
...possible that Google's defiance of china--on March 22 it stopped censoring its search engine there and redirected traffic to a Hong Kong site--is linked to co-founder Sergey Brin's roots. His parents, Soviet Jews, emigrated from Moscow to the U.S. at the Cold War's height, and Brin has a keen awareness of anything that smacks of political censorship. Google, of course, knew about the compromises one must make to do business in China when it entered the market in 2006. But it seems that Brin decided this year that the company could no longer abide...
Nearly 50 years ago my father, who died March 20 at 90, wrote The Quiet Crisis to warn Americans against the overuse of natural resources and the loss of open spaces. He urged the adoption of a new land consciousness to protect the environment and argued that the ideals inherent in the preservation of wilderness, watersheds and recreation areas must be given the same value as the benefits derived from exploiting our abundant resources. Such convictions were consistent with his commitment to public service and social justice. During his time at the Interior Department, he also required the Washington Redskins...
...whether it be financial reform, immigration, or climate change. It is our responsibility as students to continue to elect motivated representatives who are passionate about progressive change—who will fight for our values and our ideals in our nation’s capital. While the march toward progress is often slow and frustrating, the American government—with the active participation of its constituents—can and will create a better tomorrow...