There is an ecological manmade disaster of geologic proportions occurring in the rolling mountains of the southern Appalachians, its called mountain range -- or mountain top -– removal. It is the ultimate in theft of a people's heritage -- the destruction of watersheds -- and the annihilation of one of the most diverse places on earth. And the perpetrators are turning it into the biological equivalent of a parking lot. The theft of our mountains is escalating as the coal companies strive to outdo one another in their orgy of destruction.

In the early morning hours of Jan. 3, 2005, persons unknown, splashed about 5 gallons of puke-green paint on the front doors of the Downtown Santa Cruz Gap Store.

From June 6 - 9, the BIO 2004 Annual Convention took place in San Francisco. Billed as “the largest gathering of biotechnology leaders in the world,� BIO 2004 invited industry insiders to San Francisco to “shape the future of biotechnology.�

Early on in 2004, the Green Bloc of Sonoma County, California called for a large grassroots mobilization to disrupt the Biotechnology Industry Organization's Annual Convention. The mobilization that emerged became known as Reclaim The Commons.

This 25 minute compilation has been produced for the Critical Mass Radio Network, Reclaim The Commons, Free Radio Santa Cruz, and the Indymedia tactic.

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It looks at the recent death of a Shinui politician as a paradigm for the Israeli center-left party and Likud's former coalition partner, itself.

The scientific community, tired of being
refuted by "corporate scientists", came
up with the definitive report that cannot
be dispelled.