No Child Left Behind Leaving 70% Of Our Children Behind

May 7, 2008 in USA

STEVE YOUNG
No Child Left Behind Leaving 70% Of Our Children Behind
huffingtonpost.com — You can have as many educators’ symposiums and “dropout summits” as you like. But no matter how hard you work it, continuing the same approach and expecting a different result, is not a description of success. It’s the definition of insanity.

Business Bankruptcies Increase

May 7, 2008 in USA

Business Bankruptcies Increase
usatoday.com — Corporate defaults are reaching levels not seen in years as companies struggle with a fickle bond market and nervous consumers. Already this year, 27 U.S. companies have defaulted on their debt, exceeding the 16 companies that defaulted in all of 2007. Many of these companies have already filed for bankruptcy protection. [...]

Outright Barbarism vs. The Civil Society

May 7, 2008 in USA

SARA ROBINSON
Outright Barbarism vs. The Civil Society
Call it holocaust, lynching, or apartheid — whatever the atrocity, it always begins with language that privileges us, dehumanizes them, and somehow justifies their removal from our midst. The right has scored some very specific and tangible (and otherwise politically untenable) benefits by the simple act of grinding our [...]

Klima-Appell: Kohlekraftwerke stoppen!

May 7, 2008 in Environment Protection - Umweltschutz

Campact-News 09/08
Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008
Den Energiekonzernen ist unser Klima egal: Sie wollen mehr als 20 neue Kohlekraftwerke bauen. Für Jahrzehnte würde eine klimaschädliche und ineffiziente Stromproduktion zementiert. Dabei besteht kein Mangel an Alternativen: Energieeinsparung, moderne Gaskraftwerke, erneuerbare Energien.
Die Deutsche Umwelthilfe hat ein brillantes Konzept gegen die Pläne der Konzerne erarbeitet: Neuen Kraftwerken soll per [...]