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Published on Monday, December 21, 2009 by RH Reality Check
The Nelson ‘Compromise’: What It Will Cost Women

by Jodi Jacobson
The weeks-long soap opera of finding 60 votes for the Senate health reform bill came to an end yesterday when Democrats “compromised” with Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) on language regarding abortion coverage.  After catering first to Senator […]

Published on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 by The Boston Globe
On Health Care, Women Compromise

by Derrick Z. Jackson
Male privilige in health care reform deepens with each line drawn in the sand. Senate Democrats got their 60th vote to close debate and move reform toward a Christmas Eve vote by succumbing to Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson’s demands […]

Published on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 by Environment News Service (ENS)
Yasuni Park Trust Fund Will Keep Ecuador’s Oil Underground
by Environment News Service (ENS)

 
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Ecuador’s initiative to protect the climate […]

Published on Friday, December 4, 2009
Baring Witness to the Dalai Lama’s Prediction

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Donna Sheehan & Paul Reffell

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Today the Pulitzer Prize-winning Point Reyes Light newspaper, in West Marin County, California, published a front-page photo of a Baring Witness naked protest. Seven years ago, the paper published the first Baring […]

Published on Friday, December 4, 2009 by Daily Progress (Virginia)
Wendell Berry Says Large-Scale Farms Killing Land as Well as Towns

by Ted Strong
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — A passive populace obsessed with easy answers has led to an economy that is destroying America’s land, author Wendell Berry told a packed-in crowd at the University of Virginia on Thursday […]

Published on Saturday, December 5, 2009
Tree Huggers: 15 Women Take It Off for the Environment

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Cammy Clark

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KEY WEST, Fla. - Fifteen mature environmental activists — age 44 to 78 — took off their clothes for a fund-raising 2010 calendar called Women Sustaining the Earth.
McClatchy Newspapers reporting […]

Detox Your Liver with These Natural Herbs
by Elizabeth Walling, citizen journalist
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(NaturalNews) Maybe you have a childhood memory of forgetting to clean your fish tank’s filter. After all, it’s easy to forget a fish tank even has a filter until it’s so clogged up it starts to malfunction. Eventually, […]

How to Dry Herbs and Make Relaxing Herbal Tea
by Fleur Hupston, citizen journalist
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(NaturalNews) It is well documented that drinking herbal teas can benefit health as well as contribute to a feeling of relaxation. Herbs can be used fresh or dried. Drying them at home will generally […]

HRT Patients Rejoice: Resveratrol is an Effective Replacement to Traditional HRT, Study Finds
by Frank Mangano, citizen journalist
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(NaturalNews) There`s some great news for women who want to decrease their menopausal symptoms without increasing their risk for long term diseases associated with taking hormone replacements: Resveratrol.
Because of the inherent […]

Published on Thursday, November 26, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
Stand with the Women of Honduras

by Jody Williams and Lisa VeneKlasen
As U.S. policy makers equivocate about resolving the crisis of democracy in Honduras, a major issue is being ignored-the widespread abuses of human rights in the aftermath of the Honduran coup.
The brunt of these abuses has been borne […]