Alex Jones from the Alex Jones Show, talks with columnist and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, Paul Craig Roberts.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is the author of How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds
and other titles. Dr. Roberts official website is http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/

Related information:
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.prisonplantet.tv/

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What: MARIJUANA REFORM: A Continuing Conversation
        

• Next Steps Southern California
• A statewide conference to discuss the future of marijuana policy reform efforts in
  California.

When:

• Saturday, March 19, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Where:

• Ricardo Montalbán Theatre
• 1615 Vine St, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Sponsored by CaNORML, Drug Policy Alliance, and the Marijuana Policy Project, this conference builds on the success of a similar gathering in Berkeley in January, and will feature a public discussion with drug policy reform leaders, medical marijuana advocates, legislators, attorneys, physicians, and marijuana reform activists from across the state. Your participation and input are welcome!

Registration, ticketing, and parking information will be available by March 1.
(A modest registration fee will be charged.)

Event sponsorship opportunities are available. Please contact Susan Soares, Vibenation MultiMedia LLC at or 310-923-3857, or Sarah Lovering, MPP or 310-351-2639.

Hope to see you there!

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Millions of Americans are preparing to celebrate Independence Day with backyard BBQs and picnics. As people flock to supermarkets and shopping centers to stock up, those ending up at Costco Wholesale might be surprised at what they find.

In the Costco warehouse you’ll find freezers and coolers full of unsustainable fish. Greenpeace surveys found that Costco continues to sell fifteen of the twenty-two red list seafood items.

Costco is the largest wholesale club operator in North America. While Costco continues to grow bigger and bigger, so does its footprint on the environment. Did you know that Costco is destroying our oceans through its harmful seafood purchasing practices?

It’s time to shine a spotlight on Costco and expose the truth behind their destructive seafood policies. Costco can be a leader in ocean conservation, not a contributor to ocean destruction.

Costco can and must do better!

Greenpeace is urging Costco to implement a sustainable seafood policy, to offer transparency in its seafood labeling, and to stop selling red list seafood starting immediately with orange roughy and Chilean sea bass.

Sign the Green Peace pledge telling Costco that our oceans deserve better.

The power is in your hands. Remember by working together, we were able to improve Trader Joe’s seafood operation through public pressure and campaigning. We can do the same with Costco. Please take action today.

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As reported on the People For the American Way website

People For the American Way Foundation is pleased to share with you a new report titled, Texas Textbooks: What happened, what it means, and what we can do about it.

Religious Right leaders in Texas have been waging war against science and history for the past few decades. A primary target and battleground has been the state’s public schools, in particular the statewide approval process for textbooks. People For the American Way Foundation first started working with Texans to resist Religious Right takeovers of textbooks back in the 1980s.

The Religious Right has invested so heavily in Texas textbooks because of the national implications. School districts in Texas have to buy books from a state-approved list, and Texas is such an enormous market that textbook publishers will generally do whatever they can to get on that list. Textbooks written and edited to meet Texas standards have in the past ended up being used all over the country. So Religious Right leaders in Texas see the opportunity to doom millions of American students, not just in Texas, to stunted, scientifically dubious science books and ideologically slanted history and social studies books.

The most recent battle, over the standards for new social studies textbooks, culminated in May with the adoption of social studies standards by the State Board of Education that give the board’s far-right faction and its Religious Right advisers far too many victories in their efforts to replace history with ideology and turn public school classrooms into Heritage Foundation seminars.

Read the full report here. Be sure to download the pdf version for the fully formatted report including pictures, charts and quotes.

– Ben Betz, Online Communications Manager

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