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Featured Stories

• Fracking in New Brunswick: Elsipogtog First Nation Takes a Stand
  Posted on December 7, 2013 | No Comments

  Since June of 2013 the Elsipogtog First Nation community, in New Brunswick, Canada, has gathered on Highway 11 to protest the seismic testing being conducted by a subsidiary of Houston-based Southwestern Energy Co. Since that time, several violent clashes between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and First Nation people have erupted. AlJazeera's "Fault Lines" went to Mi'kmaq territory, to find out what happens when a First Nation says no to fracking.

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• Dead Sparrow Awakening – By Jerry Collamer
  Posted on December 4, 2013 | No Comments

  Jerry Collamer muses on the sanctity of life, the impact and burden of death, and the awakening of a child to the reality of the world.

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• Francis Bacon About Town: Surrealist Painter, Worth Multi-Millions
  Posted on December 2, 2013 | No Comments

  Francis Bacon, Irish born British painter, whose work recently auctioned for a record $142 million, in his own words in a 1985 documentary for British television, gambling, drinking, and talking about his influences.

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• Healthy Holidays: Gluten Free Vegetarian Wild Rice Stuffing
  Posted on December 2, 2013 | 3 Comments

  Jessica Aldridge, using The Good Cookies Bakery, has crafted a delicious alternative for those gluten sensitive, vegetarian, or just interested in eating healthy for the holidays. Wheat Free, Dairy Free, Corn Free, and Soy Free.

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• Dogtown Redemption: Urban Poor Survive By Recycling
  Posted on December 1, 2013 | No Comments

  A new documentary film, "Dogtown Redemption," delves inside the lives of West Oakland's poor and homeless recyclers. While California must deal with its urban poverty problem, and rogue recyclers steal from recycling funds, overall the state's Bottle Bill has significantly reduced waste.

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• Welcome to Loliondo: Maasai Struggle Against Game Hunters for Land Rights
  Posted on November 27, 2013 | No Comments

  The Loliondo Game Controlled Area (LGCA), one of Tanzania’s most well-known Maasai community concessions and wildlife destinations, is in the spotlight as local stakeholders and outside financial interests clash over its natural resources. Watch "Welcome to Loliondo," a documentary on how the Maasai confront the threat of safari tourism taking away their land.

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• A Wampanoag Thanksgiving: Stolen Land, Massacred Hope
  Posted on November 26, 2013 | No Comments

  The story of a Pilgrim Thanksgiving was a fairy tale told by Lincoln to unite the union. The Wampanoag version of the harvest festival with the English settlers is a day of mourning for a land taken away, a culture subverted and a people disappeared from epidemic and massacre.

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• Asian Rosewood: Soaked in Blood
  Posted on November 23, 2013 | No Comments

  Deep in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia grows a rare and beautiful tree whose wood is so highly prized that men will kill to possess it. In Thailand, environmental organizations and park rangers are fighting back against organized crime syndicates bent on logging it and smuggling it to the burgeoning Chinese market.

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• Blessing for La Moskitia, A Culture and Land in Transition
  Posted on November 23, 2013 | No Comments

  Historically a roadless fishing port with little development nor electricity, Puerto Lempira has transformed into a boom-town, host to drug traffickers, nearby military bases, and oil and gas development. In an effort to overcome this adversity, we participated in a blessing for the people and their land and culture in transition, directed by a local Miskitu sukya, or healer, and members of the community.

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• Spain: Landscape Restoration on the Cataluña Coast
  Posted on November 20, 2013 | No Comments

  In a landscape driven nature restoration on the coast of Cataluña, a former Club Med returns to the wild. Landscape architects EMF teamed up with architecture firm Ardèvol to remove over 400 buildings and transform the landscape into a series of meandering pathways and coastal viewpoints.

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