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Jan. 14, 2011, Issue #164 HUDSON VALLEY ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER jac...@earthlink.net, P.O. Box 662, New Paltz, NY 12561 ALL ARTCLES AT http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ 1. A REVOLUTION OF VALUES The birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. is Jan. 15. Here's a good quote to remember him with. 2. CLIMATE CHANGE: SOONER THAN THOUGHT New report says temperatures could rise by more than a devastating 10.8 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century. 3. BRIC BECOMES BRICS: CHANGES ON THE GEOPOLITICAL CHESSBOARD The BRICS countries are positioning themselves to speed up the transition from unipolar world leadership by the U.S. alone to a multipolar leadership that includes several emerging countries as well as some developed industrialized powers. Washington is doing its best to retain the dominant role. 4. CHARGES DROPPED IN WHITE HOUSE PROTEST The government released remaining defendants without charges in the Dec. 16 civil resistance demonstration where 131 were arrested. 5. DELAY IN U.S. TROOP WITHDRAWAL? Maybe, in both Afghanistan and Iraq. 6. DOMESTIC SPYING NETWORK IN U.S. Washington is creating a vast network to collect information about Americans. 7. DOES FRACKING CAUSE EARTHQUAKES? Plenty of relatively small ones, says this article. 8. THE RIGHT WING AND THE GIFFORDS TRAGEDY Conservative "lock and load rhetoric," and the ranting of cable TV reactionaries helped create the climate for the Tucson shootings. 9. U.S. POVERTY NUMBER MAY BE MILLIONS HIGHER Census bureau changes recent estimate of 43.6 million in poverty to 47.8 million, using improved methods. 10. DEFEND PUBLIC UNIONS AND WORKERS Conservative politicians mostly Republicans but some Democrats as well are intensifying their campaign to cut pay and benefits. 11. BUDGET CUTBACKS TARGET PUBLIC WORKERS State budgets that have been driven near bankruptcy largely by the Wall Street-led crash. Now the workers must pay for it. 12. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES: MYTHS AND REALITIES This article from Labor Notes debunks five specific anti-worker claims with the real facts. 13. CANCER-CAUSING CHROMIUM IN OUR WATER Tap water from 31 of 35 U.S. cities tested contains chromium-6, a carcinogen. 14. ONE MORE DEATH IN PALESTINE It happened on New Years Day: one more Palestinian dead at the hands of the authorities, and many more will follow. But repression breeds resistance in Palestine, and the worldwide solidarity movement is growing. 15. SHARIA CHARADE Oklahoma's anti-Muslim ballot initiative approved last November is having trouble in court. 16. DOMESTIC NEWS BRIEFS 17. INTERNATIONAL NEWS BRIEFS 18. MISERY WITH PLENTY OF COMPANY New York Times columnist Bob Herbert outdoes himself in this article. We had to reprint it. 19. "PHIL OCHS: THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE" A documentary film has just been released about Ochs, one of America's greatest topical and protest songwriter-singers. Here's a link to a good left review, and we reprint one of his songs. 20. GROUPS CAUTION U.S. ON WIKILEAKES REPRISALS A coalition of 30 free speech organizations sent an open letter to public officials cautioning against prosecuting "third party publishers." ALL ARTCLES AT http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/ ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
