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• Pablo Picasso: Dangerous Art and Political Posturing in Paris
  Posted on February 25, 2015 | No Comments

  "Art is never chaste," said Pablo Picasso. "Art is dangerous." One of the 20th century’s greatest painters was born in Málaga, Spain, but Jonathan Jones argues he came into his own amid the sleaze and bohemianism of Paris – the only city that could have matched his peerless imagination.

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• Fracking Boom Surrounds Sacred Chaco Canyon
  Posted on February 19, 2015 | No Comments

  The fracking boom threatens Puebloan and Hopi ancestral homelands around New Mexico's sacred Chaco Canyon and local Diné communities are fighting drilling, pipeline projects and just general industrialization of their region without bringing real economic development. See the videos from the Solstice Project.

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• Pod Cars: Autonomous Vehicles vs. Personal Rapid Transit
  Posted on February 17, 2015 | 1 Comment

  The age of the pod car might be upon us, but not necessarily as the long-envisioned Personal Rapid Transit. Good for amusement parks and Google's main campus, as well as small newly-built cities or airport shuttles, PRT systems have too many limitations in dense urban areas. The real future for the pod car, like it or not: Autonomous (Self-Driving) Vehicles.

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• Coffee and Climate Change: Morning Java Won’t Survive
  Posted on February 11, 2015 | No Comments

  Climate change affects coffee crops throughout the world, with extreme weather and virulent pests causing damage to yields and ruining the industry. Thus, kicking our addiction to oil will benefit coffee farmers as well as consumers.

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• Free Trade Cities in Honduras: A Dangerous Experiment
  Posted on February 2, 2015 | No Comments

  The tiny forgotten Pacific port town of Amapala, among volcanic island sands and stifling heat, is proposed as the site of a radical libertarian experiment: an autonomous free trade city, a haven for multi-national corporations. And the locals are not celebrating.

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• Gov. Brown: March for Real Climate Leadership on Feb 7th
  Posted on January 16, 2015 | No Comments

  Join SoCal 350 Climate Action Coalition and Californians from across the state gathering Feb 7 in Oakland — Governor Brown’s hometown — to demand real climate leadership in the face of the impending climate crisis and ongoing drought, with an unconventional oil boom that includes fracking, oil trains, and expanded refinery capacity.

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• Laguna Beach “Ranch” Hotel Renovation Violates Coastal Rules
  Posted on January 8, 2015 | 17 Comments

  The California Coastal Commission failed to enforce the Coastal Act and did not require a Laguna hotel renovation to address destruction of affordable rooms and environmental habitat as well as finish the long-awaited Trail to the Sea.

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• ‘Above All Else': Fighting the Keystone XL in Texas – Jan 22 LA Screening
  Posted on January 3, 2015 | No Comments

  Join SoCal 350, Tar Sands Action SoCal, and WilderUtopia in Pasadena, January 22nd for a fundraiser screening of Above All Else, a documentary on the fight against the Keystone South. Reserve Tickets TODAY! We must sell at least 78 tickets by January 15th to make the event happen! TIX: https://www.tugg.com/events/12825

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• Disappearing Cod: Sustainable Populations Require Long-Term Action
  Posted on January 2, 2015 | 4 Comments

  The NOAA is shutting down cod fishing for six months, from Provincetown, Mass., up to the Canadian border, in an effort to reverse plummeting numbers of the iconic fish in the Gulf of Maine. Jeffery Bolster argues humans have depredated the Atlantic’s fish stocks for centuries, and the focus on short-term fixes only compounds the problem.

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• ‘Selma': Martin Luther King Jr. as Radical Peace and Anti-Poverty Activist
  Posted on December 28, 2014 | No Comments

  A new film reinstates the radical legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., speaking out against war and poverty and marginalized by the political establishment, in a review by Zaid Jilani.

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