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VisionOfEarth

  1. Scary: Conservatives' "budget" bill includes repealing the Environmental Assessment Act and a 67 page law replacing it. bit.ly/LOlZDw
  2. Stephen King pulls no punches in an entertaining piece on the necessity that the rich pay more taxes in the US. bit.ly/Nfvafj
  3. Overview piece on the ongoing student strikes in Quebec. natpo.st/JyAsAG - Printemps érable!
  4. Sharing: An open letter to the world on the governmental destruction of the environment in Canada: bit.ly/MsMbVJ
  5. Social and economic debt can't be erased in a bankruptcy.
  6. McGill professors knock the pillars out from under the common arguments for the Quebec tuition hikes: bit.ly/ILPbr7
  7. Hiding the damage done to caribou by the Alberta tar sands by blaming it on wolves. bit.ly/HKO648
  8. Occupy Wall St. moves to 'sleeping on the sidewalks', where they apparently have protection under the law. bit.ly/InM4VT
  9. Huge natural gas cloud from gas platform in the north sea, stretching for kilometers in all directions. Will they burn? bit.ly/HgEoDe
  10. "The age of cheap energy is over." - Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, on April 13th, 2011.
  11. Wind turbines apparently now come in sizes up to SIX megawatts. That is just incredible. bit.ly/GOd7tB
  12. Bank of Canada calls for prudent monetary policy and financial regulation worldwide to stem growing income inequality bit.ly/xoEapJ
  13. Robert Reich lays out some concise and frightening facts about the growing wealth divide in the US. bit.ly/xzHPmL
  14. Positive news: Gov't of India gives a local company the right to make cheap version of Bayer's cancer drug. bit.ly/yMuXQU
  15. Think people are about to join a protest? Arrest them!!! Well, at least that's what NYC has been doing: bit.ly/zKqOIE
  16. The 99% Spring, April 9-15th, 2012. Let's rise up to make this the summer of change. the99spring.com
  17. Canadians, call your Senator to say no to cruel #crimebill, yes to safety and justice. #cdnpoli leadnow.ca/canadian-justi… via @leadnowca
  18. Elections Canada found a connection between phony election-day phone calls and the Conservatives leadnow.ca/robocall-fraud
  19. "The underpinnings of this new global unrest are that people are sick of seeing the rich get richer during a crisis." bit.ly/zhKY3U
  20. Fellow Canadians, please join this movement & spread it as much as you can. Let's create a better future bit.ly/zYLheP