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		<title>Occupy Wall Street &#8211; Live</title>
		<link>http://gregoryvickrey.com/2011/09/occupy-wall-street-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Live video of the attempted occupation of Wall Street in New York City.]]></description>
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		<title>Where is California Labor?</title>
		<link>http://gregoryvickrey.com/2011/07/where-is-california-labor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is California Labor? Is anyone home?

At the same time that workers are under attack nationally, the California Democratic governor and the Democratic controlled legislature have passed a budget with massive cutbacks in education and social services. Marty Hittleman, the past president of the California Federation of Teachers, has said that, as a direct result of these fee increases at California Community Colleges, 200,000 working class and poor students will be pushed out of the schools.

In order to address this attack that threatens public education, Professor Peter Mathews at Cypress College in Orange County and his colleagues and students are seeking support for an Oil Extraction Tax ballot initiative that would tax oil in California and raise $3 billion for education at Community Colleges, the State Colleges, the UC system and K-12.]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter to Sarah Palin (Past &amp; Present)</title>
		<link>http://gregoryvickrey.com/2011/02/open-letter-sarah-palin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a title="Sarah Palin Letter, CounterCurrents" href="http://www.countercurrents.org/vickrey150211.htm" target="_blank">CounterCurrents</a> &#124; <a title="Sarah Palin Letter, OpEdNews" href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Hi-Sarah-Palin-circa-2006-by-Gregory-Vickrey-110216-307.html" target="_blank">OpEdNews</a> &#124; <a title="Sarah Palin Letter, Political Context" href="http://politicalcontext.org/politics-policy/2011/02/gregory-vickrey-a-letter-to-sarah/" target="_blank">Political Context</a> &#124; <a title="Sarah Palin Letter, RSN" href="http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/78-78/4964-an-open-letter-to-sarah-palin-past-a-present" target="_blank">RSN</a>

Dear Sarah,
<strong> </strong>
You and I first crossed paths on a fairly pleasant day in Ketchikan, Alaska, during the lonely part of your effort to unseat the deplorable Governor Frank Murkowski in 2006. Like you, I had a booth at the Ketchikan Blueberry Festival - and neither of us were very busy. You were the “outsider” tracking down the hometown boy, Murkowski, and I was the “radical” environmentalist undermining his work. The conservative town on Revillagigedo Island didn’t care much for either you or me at the time.
<strong> </strong>
I approached you on your stroll of solitude around the festival, and you saw my approach out of the corner of your eye. If the signs and the t-shirts and the postcards at my booth didn’t label me a “greenie” right away, I know my introduction did: Gregory Vickrey of the Tongass Conservation Society and Alaska Conservation Voters, how do you do?]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska Native Human Rights Violated</title>
		<link>http://gregoryvickrey.com/2011/02/alaska-native-human-rights-violated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release
Contact:
Alaska - Carl Wassilie 907.382.3403 carlwassilie.acyn@gmail.com
Lower 48 - Gregory Vickrey 202.487.1201 gregory@gregoryvickrey.com

Anchorage, Alaska - On February 8, 2011, Alaska’s Big Village Network (ABVN) affiliate Desa Jacobsson began a fast in protest of the comprehensive violation of subsistence rights and continued de-humanization of Alaskan Natives by Governor Sean Parnell, Calista Corporation, and the Federal Subsistence Board.

Ms. Jacobsson began the fast in order to raise awareness of archaic and repressive policies implemented and contrived under Governor Parnell and Federal program managers, as well as to press for sweeping measures that will formally recognize the inherent right of Alaskan Natives to live as sovereign Nations. Policies dictating the management of fish and game have been particularly onerous in removing Tribal government authority from the role of public trustee and the provisions of customary use of Alaska’s vital subsistence resources.]]></description>
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		<title>2011 &#124; The Race to the Bottom Accelerates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By <a href="http://theartofannihilation.com/about-the-author/">Cory Morningstar</a>

<em>This piece is the latest in Cory Morningstar and Gregory Vickrey’s hard-hitting critique of corporate environmentalism, part of their book and multimedia project due out in 2011. </em>]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction: Methane, Propaganda &amp; the Architects of Genocide &#124; Part III</title>
		<link>http://gregoryvickrey.com/2011/02/the-real-weapons-of-mass-destruction-methane-propaganda-the-architects-of-genocide-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An investigative report. [Part 1: http://bit.ly/fV8slf &#124; Part II: http://bit.ly/gMITca ] By Cory Morningstar Part III The Spin Doctors &#124; Spinning the Potential for Abrupt and Catastrophic Climate Change &#8220;Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.&#8221; – Aldous Huxley It is now beyond obvious that those who control the world&#8217;s economy are hell-bent on burning all of our planet&#8217;s remaining fossil fuels – including those that not long ago, were considered impractical to exploit. Corporate-colluded states, corporate-controlled media and corporate-funded scientists will be red-lining the well-oiled engine of the propaganda machine as it works overtime. They will try to convince you the methane hydrates in the world&#8217;s oceans are deep enough that the inevitable increased temperature will not affect them. (Think again. Take a look at the map – the methane hydrates, even outside of the Arctic, are almost all located on shallow continental shelves.) And if that<a href="http://gregoryvickrey.com/2011/02/the-real-weapons-of-mass-destruction-methane-propaganda-the-architects-of-genocide-part-iii/">Read the Rest...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction: Methane, Propaganda &amp; the Architects of Genocide &#124; Part II</title>
		<link>http://gregoryvickrey.com/2011/01/the-real-weapons-of-mass-destruction-methane-propaganda-the-architects-of-genocide-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An investigative report. [Part 1: http://bit.ly/fV8slf &#124; Part II: http://bit.ly/gMITca ] By Cory Morningstar Part II Post Cancún: North America. The New Energy Kingdom On 13 December 2010 directly following the disastrous Cancún conference (&#8220;one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War&#8221; [10]), a revealing post is found on the &#8220;oilprice.com&#8221; website. The article is titled North America: The New Energy Kingdom. From the article: &#8220;Beyond shale oil and shale gas, there&#8217;s the awesome energy promise of methane hydrates, frozen crystals of water and gas that lie beneath the northern permafrost and beneath oceans floors around the world in quantities that boggle the imagination.&#8221; &#8220;Assuming 1 per cent recovery,&#8221; the US Geological Survey says, &#8220;these deposits [in US territory] could meet the natural gas needs of the country (at current rates of consumption) for 100 years.&#8221; The obstructionist corporate-colluded states – the ones responsible for climate change in the<a href="http://gregoryvickrey.com/2011/01/the-real-weapons-of-mass-destruction-methane-propaganda-the-architects-of-genocide-part-ii/">Read the Rest...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction: Methane, Propaganda &amp; the Architects of Genocide &#124; Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An investigative report. [Part 1: http://bit.ly/fV8slf ] By Cory Morningstar Part I World Marches to Methane Annihilation &#8220;[T]he question is not will this methane be released, but when.&#8221; – Robert C. Hendricks, NASA, November 2007 The architects of death: The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction are the melting permafrost, the destabilizing methane hydrates and the corporations such as Halliburton, ChevronTexaco, BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil who, hand in hand with the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Defense, have been planning and waiting to exploit methane hydrates for decades. Methane hydrates are considered the ultimate in climate wealth opportunity because the control of these hydrocarbons could literally shift the balance of global power (US Department of Defense). It is clear that nothing has been done to prevent catastrophic climate change – and nothing will be done. Global emissions are set to skyrocket. This article attempts to clearly articulate why,<a href="http://gregoryvickrey.com/2011/01/the-real-weapons-of-mass-destruction-methane-propaganda-the-architects-of-genocide-part-i/">Read the Rest...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Part II &#8211; Exposé &#124; The 2º Death Dance – The 1º Cover-up</title>
		<link>http://gregoryvickrey.com/2011/01/part-ii-expose-the-2%c2%ba-death-dance-%e2%80%93-the-1%c2%ba-cover-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exposé &#124; The 2º Death Dance – The 1º Cover-up Part two of an investigative report. (Part 1: http://bit.ly/fqm0BI) By Cory Morningstar Above: Courtesy of Stephanie McMillan &#124; CODE GREEN Bolivia Versus the World &#8220;Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable &#8230;&#8221; – George Orwell 11 December 2010. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) 16 in Cancún, Mexico. Bolivia repeatedly opposes attempts to pass the text. Bolivia&#8217;s UN Ambassador, Pablo Solon, objects on the grounds that the draft proposals are far too lax to stop global warming. Solon stands his ground until conference chair Patricia Espinosa bangs the gavel at 3:31 a.m. saying: &#8220;The objections and complaints will be noted duly.&#8221; A key clause of United Nations rules is that all agreements must be reached in harmony. However, Espinosa seems to have a very broad interpretation of this rule. Harmony,<a href="http://gregoryvickrey.com/2011/01/part-ii-expose-the-2%c2%ba-death-dance-%e2%80%93-the-1%c2%ba-cover-up/">Read the Rest...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Manufacturing Discontent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are quite honored that this piece has appeared in several venues before publishing here. Please visit each to show them your support, and share this page widely. We are especially grateful to: United Progressives &#124; CounterCurrents &#124; OpEd News &#124; EcoSocialism &#124; Huntington (WV) News This piece continues the series being presented by Cory Morningstar and Gregory Vickrey and is part of their anticipated and controversial book and multimedia project due out in 2011. It is safe to assume that in modern political arenas, an approach to the climate change emergency through conventional directives will not work. Indeed, across every movement, from single payer health care to American wars and occupations abroad, the conventional has failed. And while we are very skilled at making excuses and providing analysis for some aspects of that failure, we are not very good at determining other, alternative mechanisms for change. The climate change<a href="http://gregoryvickrey.com/2010/12/manufacturing-discontent/">Read the Rest...</a>]]></description>
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