For a fair, community-based, local and democratic economy.
Submitted by cfm on Fri, 2006-04-28 22:55.Our food comes from farther and farther away, fertilized with more and more fossil sources. It arrives on more and more trucks burning fossil fuel. Our banks are bigger but no longer subject to state regulation. The large corporations and the World Trade Organization (WTO) do as they please. Other people's trash is one of Maine's fastest growing businesses.
Baldacci Seeks Re-Election
Submitted by cfm on Tue, 2009-08-11 17:49.> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 07:59:41AM +0000, Google Alerts wrote:
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> === Google News Alert for: chris miller maine ===
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> New candidate enters race for Blaine House
> SunJournal.com
> John Baldacci is seeking re-election and is being challenged in the
> Democratic primary by Chris Miller. Baldacci and Miller are running
> traditionally ...
>
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Bitty Bunnies
Submitted by cfm on Sat, 2009-02-21 22:17."The financial crisis is first and foremost an ecological crisis.", Barnacle, Thule 2009-02-01.
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Of Cufflinks and "The Man" I Sing
Submitted by cfm on Sat, 2009-02-21 22:11.A responsible ethic depends on an honest assessment of the context - Chris Hedges, speaking at Bowdoin, 2009-02-10
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Antler Up
Submitted by cfm on Mon, 2009-01-26 02:41.Never so many broken windows in town, the police say. The glass people are three weeks out. The guy who broke the window is standing there patiently, waiting for the police to take him in for an overnight. Room and board. He's cold. Snowflakes dotting melting on his jacket. Snowflakes spitting wetting his feet.
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Be Scared
Submitted by cfm on Wed, 2009-01-14 22:19."What now, Crow? Out with it!"
"Pattenaude," Crow says, "The University. FUBOO".
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Gaza Dreams
Submitted by cfm on Wed, 2009-01-14 01:24.Sharin slept. She and her father, alone of the family, alone of her brothers, sisters, parents, grandparents and cousins survived. She wasn't awake to see the tiny blue lights - new fireflies high overhead - circling in the darkness. She snuggled up to her father. "Baba," she whispered in her sleep.
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Hey Gov: Pay It Forward
Submitted by cfm on Tue, 2009-01-06 14:34.The "economics is really clear", say the economists [Lance Tapley, "Hey Gov, Stop Slashing", Portland Phoenix, Dec 31]. The same economists who couldn't see the crash coming. Like their kindred ideologues - the politicians, the state agencies and the overgrown business community they serve - the economists are wrong. Lots of us saw this crash coming.
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Beem Too Threatening
Submitted by cfm on Wed, 2008-12-10 22:20."Edgar Allen Beem is as far left as the 'lunatic fringe' of the right"?
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Leaving On The "Impeach" Bumper Sticker
Submitted by cfm on Fri, 2008-11-28 02:52."There should be no surprise there," -- Noam Chomsky
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