Activism

Whistleblower Edward Snowden Releases Statement from Moscow: Still Seeking Asylum

Christina Sarich, Staff Writer Waking Times As the Obama administration strongly chides Edward Snowden for whistle-blowing on the entire US government, namely the NSA and CIA who has been tapping cell phones and sneaking a peek at Internet transactions via forced hand-overs from the likes of Google and Facebook utilizing a program called PRISM, the

EPA to American People: ‘Let Them Eat Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Cake’

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info Waking Times The EPA, whose mission is to “to protect human health and the environment,” has approved Monsanto’s request to allow levels of glyphosate (Roundup) contamination in your food up to a million times higher than have been found carcinogenic. If you haven’t already heard, it’s now official. Monsanto’s request to have

Wireless, Chemtrails, and You

William Thomas, Wake Up World Waking Times Next time you’re on a cellphone looking up at those long lingering plumes spreading across the sky, you might decide to end that call. If you spot any cell towers, roof-mounted transmitters or high-voltage power lines within a mile of your location, you may wish to evacuate the

Fluoride: The Hard to Swallow Truth

Waking Times From our friends at Collective Evolution: A couple of years ago CE released a documentary called ‘Fluoride: The Hard to Swallow Truth’ The documentary has done very well on YouTube and we have received countless emails from people looking for more information on how they can remove fluoride from their drinking water. Some

Fracking, Fracking and More Fracking

Stefanie Spear, Guest Waking Times It’s virtually impossible these days to read, listen to or watch a news program that doesn’t mention hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Nearly every day, EcoWatch posts at least one article on fracking and last week was no different. Big news last week was the announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that

Becoming Real and Taking Action: Eschewing Indifference

Christina Sarich, Staff Writer Waking Times When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. ~ Anais Nin In our stories of ‘once upon a time’ we are like Pinocchio turning back to wood, or like a robot that stands idly in the corner waiting

3 Reasons Why You Should March Against Chemtrails and Geoengineering on 8/25/13

Elizabeth Cook, Guest Waking Times 1.  The March Against Monsanto was a huge success in bringing the public’s attention to the dangers of genetically modified foods. Nearly fifty percent of U.S. states introduced bills requiring labeling or prohibiting genetically engineered foods since the date of the protest on May 25, 2013. And all without the

Industrial hemp

A New Amendment to the Farm Bill May Allow Industrial Hemp Research

Waking Times The new Bipartisan Polis-Massie-Blumenauer Amendment would permit America’s colleges and universities to conduct important agricultural research in states that support industrial hemp farming Many supporters of the medical marijuana and industrial hemp movements would agree that the antiquated and ineffective war on drugs is preventing us from growing a plant that aides in managing physical and

Proof That Big Pharma Doesn’t Care About Vaccine Harm

Heidi Stevenson, Gaia-Health Waking Times Big Pharma’s corruption goes back decades. Wyeth’s attempt in 1979 to find a way to make it difficult or impossible to track batches of vaccine when something goes wrong—like when children die—clarifies that there’s nothing new about their willingness to cover up the massive harms done by their products, even when

Charting a New Course on Illegal Drugs

Jess Hunter-Bowman, Guest Waking Times After 40 years of failing to stem the drug trade, there’s a global conversation about new approaches. As Manuel, a Colombian farmer, showed me his peppercorn crops ravaged by the defoliant sprayed in a futile effort to kill his neighbor’s drug crops, he explained why the Drug War could never

Humanity Is Transforming And Changing: The Great Awakening

In5D Waking Times The planet is going through a mass transformation. There are many aspects to this transformation, and in the end one must come to realize the basic building block for global change starts with us, humanity on a collective level, together. We are being called to evolve past our current way of living,

The AIDS-like Disease Seldom Mentioned

Karen Lambert, Guest Waking Times I have Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFS/CFIDS/ME) and HIV-NEGATIVE AIDS, idiopathic CD lymphocytopenia. With these two clinical diagnoses, I believe that makes me living proof that the AIDS-like CFS/ME is transmissible, something that the medical establishment seems unable to admit or to acknowledge. I also believe it makes me living proof that CFS and

Opposition Escalates Over Faulty Southern Leg of Keystone XL Pipeline

Stefanie Spear, Guest Waking Times “Enough is enough,” said Michael Bishop during our phone conversation Saturday morning after he found out TransCanada and its vendor, Michels, are planning to dig up buried pipe, part of the 485-mile southern segment of the Keystone XL pipeline, on his property in the east Texas rural community of Douglass. The representative

GMOs Quietly Pushed For Commercial Growing in The UK

Aaron Jackson, Guest Waking Times Currently there is no commercial growing of Genetically Modified (GM) crops in the United Kingdom, only an experimental trial of GM Wheat which started in 2012, but now the Prime Minister’s personal scientific adviser; Sir Mark Walport and others are pushing an agenda to allow GM crops from Biotech firms

US Nuclear MOX Facility – A Radioactive Waste of Money

Mia Steinle, Guest Waking Times The federal government should stop building a pointless $7.7 billion facility to convert plutonium into fuel for nuclear reactors. Can a single example illustrate why the federal budget is so hard to get under control? A somewhat obscure nuclear processing plant on the Savannah River in South Carolina might do

Censorship Abounds: The Handful of Companies That Control Your Perceptions

Christina Sarich, Staff Writer Waking Times Almost all the media channels you watch are controlling your perception of reality – namely to get you to value their commodities (goods and services) instead of yourself and your own morals and values. This affects you at every level, from the food you eat, the friends you are

8 Skills of a Well-Trained Activist

George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence Contributor Waking Times As I write this dozens of trainers in Philadelphia near completion of a 17-day intensive called the “Super-T,” a kind of boot camp for trainers. In the 1950s, there was no place I could go to learn this kind of activist facilitation training, even though Paulo Freire was

Hydro-Fracking – Boom or Bust?

James Hall, Contributor Waking Times The economics of oil or natural gas hydrofracking are seldom analyzed from the perspective of the American consumer. Most discussions focus upon the investment opportunities of specific companies, royalties to leaseholders, windfall tax revenues that state governments will benefit from and the bonanza that local communities will enjoy from the


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