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Join the Collingwood Lions Club
9 Feb – 7-8 pm - Collingwood Library Lions clubs support sight programs, assist the disabled, feed the hungry and provide disaster relief assistance. And that’s not all. Each Lions club chooses their own projects and activities to fit the lifestyles of its members and benefit their community the most. You have an opportunity to become [...]
Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution?
For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive… The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination… The worldwide yearning [...]
The Cove – Video of Japan Dolphin Kill Exposes Lies
By Ric O’Barry – When we released “The Cove” in Japan last Summer, I knew it wouldn’t be easy. Of course, I also had no way of knowing just how vigorously our opponents would fight the truth. A small, but very vocal group engaged in a massive campaign of misinformation and intimidation against us. They [...]
Why Finland’s schools are the best in the West
In what’s often called the real world, successful businesses are those that encourage their best employees, respond effectively to their clients needs and invest continually in their programs and infrastructure. But does the same hold true when we talk about public education and substitute students for clients and teachers for employees? As far as I’m [...]
What happens when mom unplugs teens for 6 months?
Susan Maushart lived out every parent’s fantasy: She unplugged her teenagers. For six months, she took away the Internet, TV, iPods, cell phones and video games. The eerie glow of screens stopped lighting up the family room. Electronic devices no longer chirped through the night like “evil crickets.” And she stopped carrying her iPhone into [...]
What if 9/11 was not hijacked by the U.S. extreme right and Zionists?
9/11 was, and still is, the most politicized terror attack this century; hijacked by the American extreme right and Zionists to advance their political agenda; exporting wars, death, destruction and misery, eroding civil liberties at home and disrespecting human lives including those of Americans’. But what if America’s extreme right and Zionists had not hijacked [...]
China in the mind of America
WELL before the presidents of America and China sat down for dinner at the White House on the evening of January 18th, word went out from Barack Obama’s people that the very smallness of this working supper marked a new intimacy in relations. Instead of the usual throng of hangers-on, only six diners would be [...]
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