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...spent most of the last two years in politics. For eight months, he was a field organizer for the Dean campaign in New Hampshire. Then, for the general election, he took a job helping America Votes—a consortium of progressive 527s including America Coming Together, the Sierra Club and the Service Employees International Union—coordinate their operation...
...Eastern Luzon is unlikely to recover so swiftly from the typhoon havoc of last week, because the disaster was only part natural-and largely the work of man. Two storms slammed in from the Philippine Sea, hitting the coastal areas of Quezon province north of Manila. Normally, the interior Sierra Madre mountains would block and tame the storms, and the rain would be absorbed by the roots of the trees that line the mountainsides. But the mountains in Quezon have been steadily denuded of trees in the past four decades. (Much of the logging is illegal.) The mountains behind...
...Luzon is unlikely to recover swiftly from the havoc of last week, when two storms slammed into the coastal areas of Quezon province north of Manila, because the disaster was only partly natural - and largely the work of man. Normally, the roots of trees that cover the interior Sierra Madre mountains would absorb the rain. But four decades of logging - much of it illegal - has steadily denuded the island's mountains...
When you couldn’t vote, it was because someone threw away your registration card or directed you to the wrong polling place, not because of civil war or fixed elections or militants who chopped off your hands to physically prevent you from casting a ballot (c.f. Uganda, Sierra Leone, Haiti). Negative campaigns focused on character assassination, not literal assassination (c.f. Congo, Niger, and Burundi). If you thought Nader was hopeless, ask China’s Democracy Party how they feel. And in the end, the biggest retribution you have to fear from your Republican friends is their taunts...
...nest of cooperation where the branches of Harvard’s social justice effort can consolidate and pool their resources. With the help of FCL, the house has also been used by other non-profits such as the League of Independent Voters, Global Justice and the Sierra Club. HSF, which associates itself with a large number of student groups ranging from the Spoken Word Society and Socialist Alternative to the Black Men’s Forum and SASSI-WOOF, hopes to make the space available for all its affiliates...