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Whynot-Mobile Broadcast News Report back from the 2009 Veterans for Peace Convention, From “hope to ACTION”

August 11th, 2009

Playlist of VFP Convention
What is Veterans for Peace?
To the Movement
…In these times more than ever, we need to support and engage in the effort of Peace. Look at the path we are taking, the wars are only increasing like it is winner take all.
This Media is our Media, and we have work to do…No Major [...]

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June 22nd, 2009

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Early Show Coverage of Hearings on EPA Discrimination under Carol Browner’s Administration

February 19th, 2009

This is CBS’s coverage of the House Science Committee’s oversight hearing of the Environmental Protection Agency in 2001, after the Agency and then-Administrator, Carol M. Browner, were found guilty of racial, sexual, and color-based discrimination by a jury in the landmark case Coleman-Adebayo v Carol Browner. The case led to the unanimous passage in both [...]

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February 9th, 2009

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Saint William Thomas - January 23, 2009

February 9th, 2009

Thomas’s Obituary in the Washington Post

A LOCAL LIFE: WILLIAM ‘DOUBTING’ THOMAS
From Lafayette Square Lookout, He Made His War Protest Permanent
By Colman McCarthy
Special [...]

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EPA Whistleblower Illegally Fired While Carol Browner- Energy Czar Soars Through Transition

December 17th, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Kevin Berends
585.520.1025
kbstreetlevel@mac.com

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WASHINGTON, D.C. Time magazine reported that Carol M. Browner’s nomination Monday for the newly-created Energy Czar position, raises embarrassing questions in the Environmental Protection Agency’s employee relations history due to Ms. Browner’s loss in Coleman-Adebayo v. Carol Browner on charges of discriminating against employees based on sex and race, as well as retaliating [...]

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Discriminatory practices within the Federal bureaucracy.

December 7th, 2008

Are you a current or former Federal employee who has been or are currently being intimidated, retaliated against, or are experiencing discriminatory practices within the Federal bureaucracy?
If so, please contact: nofearcoalition@aol.com .

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A brief excerpt of Mr. Salizar’s testimony befor the W3 Tribunal in May, 2008

July 13th, 2008

A brief excerpt of Mr. Salizar’s testimony befor the W3 Tribunal in May, 2008. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and No FEAR Institute Chaiman, Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy head a panel investigating alleged governmental waste, fraud and abuse at the 2nd Annual Whistleblower Week in Washington (W3) conference convened by NFI.
The NoFEAR Institute convenes W3 with [...]

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No Fear Act II Press Conference

January 29th, 2008

Rep. Albert Wynn (D-MD) was joined by the No FEAR Coalition (Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation) and former federal government employees who have experienced retaliation as a result of blowing the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse in the Federal government. The press conference highlighted the legislation, recently introduce by Congressman Wynn to [...]

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Jon Grand, Imprisoned for testifing against the EPA

January 5th, 2008

Jon Grand was sentenced to serve four months in an Indiana federal prison and four months house arrests and two years probation, demanded by the EPA Office of General Counsel. On the surface, this inhuman sentence is based on a financial error — recognized by the courts and the Department of Justice. But, behind the [...]

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Is PA Guilty of Undermining BDS Campaign?
Samah Sabawi [Palestine Chronicle] 10 March 2010 - In 2008 Netanyahu announced during his election campaign that he plans to 'weave an economic peace alongside the political process which will give a stake in peace for the moderate elements in the Palestinian society'. (1) � read more
Truth in labeling: EU court challenges "Made in Israel"
Phon van den Biesen and Adri Nieuwhof, [Electronic Intifada], 10 March 2010 - On 25 February, the European Court of Justice ruled that imports manufactured in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank shouldn't benefit from a trade agreement between Israel and the European Union. � read more
Join the Second Global BDS Day of Action 30 March 2010
(Spanish and French in PDF) The BDS National Committee (BNC) is calling on you to unite in your different capacities and struggles for a Global BDS Day of Action on 30 March 2010 in solidarity with the Palestinian people and for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. � read more
COSATU Statement in support of Israeli Apartheid Week
In Palestine there lives a peace-loving people like all of us, who look forward to enjoying a life of decency and dignity. These people once had a place they called their own; the land, the peace, the environment, the natural resources and all that they possessed then. � read more
Video: Russell tribunal says sanction Israel
8 March 2010 [Real News Network] This week the Russell Tribunal on Palestine ruled in Barcelona, Spain on six questions concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. � read more

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