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| Japan/Nuclear Power
Fukushima - an ongoing nuclear disaster Eye witness report
“I have engaged in the activities of our Fukushima Network for Denuclearization for more than 20 years, but we are now confronted with the ongoing nuclear disaster”. On April 3, a public meeting of “Fukushima Nuke disaster: an urgent report from Iwaki City” was held in Tokyo. The meeting was sponsored by Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center [CNIC: http://www.cnic.jp], and the 300-seat assembly hall was full in spite of adverse conditions of a short-notice meeting at Sunday evening. -> read article... |
| USA
Detroit: Disappearing cityForty per cent of Detroit today is considered virtually “unoccupied.” The administration of Mayor Dave Bing is trying to figure out how to move the remaining residents of these areas out, in the name of “rightsizing” the city. Of course he hasn’t revealed any specifics — and the devil is in the details! Residents are wary: without the money to relocate people and the services needed, it’s just another round of displacing the urban poor. -> read article... |
| Feminism
Interrogating the Feminine MystiqueAn interview with Stephanie Coontz about her new book, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s. -> read article... |
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