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The Dangers of Nuclear Energy and the Need to Close Vermont Yankee Print E-mail
Written by Frank Joseph Smecker   
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
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Photo: Andy Duback/Greenpeace
With nuclear energy, uranium atoms split inside a reactor, and radiation heats water to its boiling point creating steam to spin a giant turbine. It all seems like ingenious, efficient, and clean energy production. So where’s the mess? Now consider plutonium, a horribly carcinogenic and highly fissionable substance, radioactive for more than half a million years. If exposed to air, it will ignite. Like little pieces of confetti, very fine plutonium particles will disperse after ignition.
After the catastrophe in Copenhagen, it's up to us Print E-mail
Written by Johann Hari   
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Time for U.S. Senate to Act on U.N. Women's Treaty Print E-mail
Written by Linda Tarr-Whelan   
Tuesday, 22 December 2009

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Indian Women's Trade Union Rally
On Dec. 18, 1979, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, or CEDAW, making it a watershed day for women around the globe. This international agreement was Eleanor Roosevelt's dream and is one of the pillars of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The global community went on the record to challenge every government to protect the human rights of women and girls by working together.
Can Migrants Save the Global Economy? Print E-mail
Written by Debayani Kar   
Monday, 21 December 2009
Terminator 2009: Judgment Days in Copenhagen Print E-mail
Written by Rebecca Solnit   
Monday, 21 December 2009
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