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10-20-09 RedTracker The Case for Year Round Schooling ; NPR Gibbs and Collins Omtervoew pm Women’s Lives ; Dems & WH Fail to Target Women in Health Care Debate 10-20-09 GreenBeings Reevaluating Morality in Animals 10-20-09 IWR Women Thrive & Nicole Kidman Lobby Congress on Global Violence Against Women 10-19-09 Smarty Pants Shakira: Brainiac Activist with Curves 10-19-09 Smart Sensuality The Women’s Revolution in America: Maria Shriver Tells Us ‘What’s Up’ ; 

Cross-posted from Grist . As an activist who has been arrested for civil disobedience, organized national climate mobilizations, protested outside of coal plants and worked for Greenpeace, I am calling on my friends and colleagues to fight for the Kerry-Boxer “Clean Energy Jobs Act” and a strong global treaty in Copenhagen. On Monday Senator Barbara Boxer and Energy Secretary Steven Chu said there is a chance of passing a climate bill in Congress before the international talks in Copenhagen

  Alongside a taxi rank at Tsogang, on the outskirts of Gaborone, the opposition Botswana Congress Party (BCP) attempts to draw a crowd. An activist in a green shirt calls for free secondary education. The ward candidate, Gaborutwe Thekiso, has other worries: "People will not even stop and listen. You won't see a single civil servant at our rallies. They are too scared of being spotted by the authorities." A darling of the West and the producer of the world's most valuable diam

Happy Blog Action Day! Change.org, in partnership with groups like 350.org and the National Resources Defense Council, is pushing a climate change focus for today's Blog Action Day , and I am happy to be one of the 10,000 bloggers taking part. There is no issue more urgent than climate change. Issues like health care and poverty are tragic and pressing, but as scholar-activist Bill McKibben says, climate change is the one issue that our descendants will not be trying to fix in 100 years. The

John Mertens , an engineering professor at Hartford’s Trinity College, has entered the U.S. Senate race in Connecticut, and is seeking the backing of a number of parties. Mertens heads the Connecticut For Lieberman Party , which was Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s vehicle in seeking reelection in 2006 after losing the Democratic primary to Ned Lamont. Despite its name, the party is now controlled by Lieberman opponents. Some of its members are upset by Mertens’s run. Activist Sue Henshaw told the