Seventh Native American Generation Youth Connect with Palestinian Youth

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Read the article: Making Things Right for People, pub'd on Commondreams.

Seventh Native American Generation - SNAG - is based in Oakland CA and it uses skits, films, field trips, tours, music, art and culture to engage learning about shared indigenous and tribal journeys and struggles. SNAG's mission provides Native youth the opportunity to achieve balance and harmony, address historical and modern grievances, and explore and develop leadership and community skills through arts and cultural expression. Through a holistic approach that combines spirituality, tradition and multi-media skills, SNAG shapes the next generation of Native leaders.

Co-founder Ras K'dee talks about Native American youth reaching out to youth in Palestine and their commonalities.
Delegate and Haskell University senior Jodi Voice explains how the trip made her a stronger and more resilient organizer in indigenous communities.

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US Navy Bombarding Our Oceans, Land, and Atmosphere

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Over the next 5 years the United States Navy plans to increase the number of its military exercises or expand the areas in which they may occur, and virtually every US coastal state will be affected.
Some of these exercises may occur in the nation's most biologically sensitive marine habitats, including National Marine Sanctuaries and breeding habitat for the endangered North Atlantic right whale. The Navy anticipates more than 2.3 million takes per year or 11.7 million over 5 years. A "take" is a significant disruption in marine mammal foraging, breeding, and other essential behaviors.
Rosaline Peterson, California President and Co-Founder of the Agriculture Defense Coalition (ADC) talks about the impact of these tests.

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Read the Counterpunch article: "Dumping the Navy Way"

Listen to "You can bet that your kid, grandkid, niece or nephew is a target for military recruiters: Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC)"

Youth leader Sothay Meam of Bay Peace - baypeace.org - and Riva Enteen of National Lawyers Guild focus on how Junior Reserve Officer Training corps - JROTC - functions in high and middle schools to recruit youth into the US military.

Read the ACLU report to the UN, Soldiers of Misfortune

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Anti-Islamic trends in the U.S. ...and anti-U.S. trends in the Islamic World

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Dr. Yannis Toussulis is professor of inter-cultural conflict and he focuses on Muslim-majority nations and the U.S. He is a Muslim convert as well as author of a soon-to-be-published book on the Islamic tradition of Sufism. Here, Dr. Toussulis discusses anti-Islamic trends in the U.S. as well as anti-U.S. trends in the Islamic World. He paints a picture of these trends in broad strokes and invites listeners to explore the myths and realities about Islam that are alive and well in our world today.

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"Workers in this country are terrorized!"

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Bio-tech workers - from scientists to lab tech - are being contaminated by patented genetically engineered products and no-one is looking after their health interests.
"There is a systemic corruption in this industry that controls our government," says Steve Zeltzer, chairman of California Coalition form Workers Memorial Day.
What role, if any, do unions play in the bio-tech and high-tech industries today?

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On again, off again: Troy Davis...and war and its effects of people and land

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After 20 years on Georgia's death row and several stays of execution Troy Davis has one more week of life. Or does he? The justice system has refused his appeals and set his execution date four times. Is the fourth time the last?

Veterans tell their stories and the Veterans Health Research Institute advises troops and their families on how to welcome home a loved one from the wars. Then, the Presidio in San Francisco, a former military base, is now the Presidio Trust, a mixed use federal land trust with unique and imaginative ways of transforming what was once a nerve center for war into a nerve center for innovation and people-centered communities.

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Dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico and Theater and the Arts in Kabul

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An update from author activist Dahr Jamail who just returned from the disaster zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Despite what we are being told in the media, all is not coming right in the Gulf -- in fact, it has been turned into a vast toxic lake. 
Then Kayhan Irani, artivista and playwright with the Theater of the Oppressed recently returned from Kabul in Afghanistan where she conducted and facilitated workshops for Afghan actors and artists.

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HuffPost Green article on staph infections, hepatitis, and other diseases from our contaminated oceans