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Amy Domestico Can we conserve our way out of a water crisis?

Can we conserve our way out of a water crisis? Around the Water Cooler welcomes Doug Bennett, the water conservation manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority and chair of the 2009 WaterSmart Innovations Conference, about the future of our drinking water. http://budurl.com/wc1104 Continue

Added by Amy Domestico on November 4, 2009 at 5:44pm — No Comments

Craig Bergland Local Food and Fun Fest

This Sunday Oct. 4th, at the co-op located 542 1/2 Plumas street behind the Bead shop. Let's make sure our Washoe Transition group all link up with the TransitionReno group. (Most of us are there anyway...) Workshops, winter seedling sale, local farmers, beer, books, coffee and food. Time:9AM to 4PM. Come early and help set up. Presented by Great Basin Community Food Cooperative, TransitionReno, and WashoeGreen transition members. Hope to see all us there. Thanks, Craig Continue

Added by Craig Bergland on October 2, 2009 at 5:07pm — No Comments

Billy OPT OUT OF YOUR PHONEBOOK!

Call these phone numbers to stop the NV phone book from automatically coming to your house. 5 million trees are used for white pages alone. For more info on this action see Ban the Phone Book. If you do get one you can leave it outside the ATT office where ppl pick them up who really want them. Continue

Added by Billy on October 1, 2009 at 12:19pm — No Comments

Billy Whole Foods Boycott and Picketing

The Green Party of Nevada and Washoe Greens join in the national picket and boycott of Whole Foods Markets after comments made by CEO Co-Founder John Mackey in the Wall St Journal decrying Medicare for all, smearing with the lie that HealthCare reform will bankrupt America and telling us that healthcare is not a right for all Americans but a privilege for those who wor… Continue

Added by Billy on August 27, 2009 at 8:00pm — 10 Comments

Emily Rhodenbaugh No Blackstone Coal Campaign in Nevada!

The Blackstone Group and Sithe Global are trying to develop three large, dirty coal-fired power plants in the United States. These include the Desert Rock Energy Project, the Toquop Energy Project, and the River Hills Energy Project. Visit our website to find out more about each plant - www.noblackstonecoal.com. These three plants would produce over 2,500 megawatts of electricity for 50 years and, combined, would emit over 20 million tons of climate change-causing carbon dioxide every year, or… Continue

Added by Emily Rhodenbaugh on July 30, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Charley Blewett This looks like a promising policy to me.

Here is an example of what we need in our culture, municipal participation in alternative energy installation in our cities, as reported in this NY Times GIGAOM article: San Francisco Looks to Finance Clean Power and Energy Upgrades Continue

Added by Charley Blewett on July 23, 2009 at 10:44am — 1 Comment

David Sanders Amendment to Permit States to Enact Single-Payer Plans by Dennis Kucinich

Dennis Kucinich - www.Kucinich.us Exciting Healthcare Update Dear Friends, With your support, your phone calls, your emails, we won a major legislative victory today for a state single payer health care option in the House of Representatives in Washington, DC. The House Education and Labor Committee approved the Kucinich Amendment by a vote of 27-19, with 14 Democrats and 13 Republicans voting… Continue

Added by David Sanders on July 19, 2009 at 10:31am — No Comments

elaine Invitation to Grow

Life is moving fast for all of us, and so, this is a "Code Pink" . . . On Friday, 10 July 2009, we are hosting an "Activate Your Inner Activist" day and open house at the Sahara West Library, located at 9400 W. Sahara Avenue in Las Vegas! I invite ANY Green Party people who want to help grow the Green Party in Las Vegas to come and join us and represent for the Green Party. I will be busy organizing the event, so I cannot represent the Green Party but I would LOVE to present it to Las Vegas' S… Continue

Added by elaine on June 28, 2009 at 11:53am — No Comments

David Sanders Personal Insight on Why We Need Universal Healthcare Reform!

Recently, I was laid up in St. Mary's Hospital for two weeks. Since I receive disability, I had Medicare Part A to cover most of the hospital bill, and the people there were quite explicit in telling me not to even worry about the rest of the hospital bill. At least I was fortunate to have the Part A coverage. Many people can't even get that much, as there are way too many people with no insurance at all. Even those with insurance will too often have their claims denied, especially after someth… Continue

Added by David Sanders on June 27, 2009 at 10:20am — No Comments

Paul Lenart People to People Solidarity with Iran; Revolution, Yes; US Intervention, No!

IWW-Reno will show support for Iranian Labor as part of international actions called by four major union federations and endorsed by the major Iranian unions who will be holding a general strike Friday June 26th. Reno's solidarity event will be held at the intersection of McCarran and S. Virginia (near Chili's Grill and Bar) at 5 p.m. 'til we run out of energy or the rush hour traffic disappears. All lovers of peace, justice, and liberty are invited; no supporters of imperialist mi… Continue

Added by Paul Lenart on June 22, 2009 at 9:06pm — No Comments

Billy Iraq Veterans v. the wars.

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Added by Billy on June 9, 2009 at 11:45am — No Comments

Billy ONWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Neither decision today in CA or NV was unexpected. More work to do. Spread the word that gay marriage is OK. Click it:
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Added by Billy on May 26, 2009 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

Billy Letter to Gibbons: Sign Domestic Partners Bill

Dear Governor Gibbons, The Green Party is on the rise in Nevada. Copious more people voted Green Party in the last election than are registered. The national Green Party platform has called for domestic partner marriage for over a decade. As Co-Chair of the Green Party of Nevada I can speak for all of our members when I say we wholly support SB283 and are proud that our state is taking… Continue

Added by Billy on May 24, 2009 at 10:00am — 2 Comments

Ursi Ask President Obama to end the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and not to fire Lt. Dan Choi

Courage Campaign Lt. Dan Choi, from Orange County, California, is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and an Iraq War veteran. Last March he went on Rachel Maddow's show and spoke three truthful words: "I am gay." As a result Lt. Choi received a letter from the Army on April 23 discharging him for violating the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. He told Rachel Maddow the letter was "a slap in the… Continue

Added by Ursi on May 18, 2009 at 6:17pm — No Comments

Billy H1N1

CDC Swine Flu page, or follow cdcflu. WaCo updates. NV updates. Flu wiki.… Continue

Added by Billy on May 1, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Billy Big surprise: US lead global arms trading up 20% during recent Bush-Cheney.

World arms trade up 20% in five years, says peace research group Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian, Monday 27 April 2009 The arms trade has expanded by more than 20% worldwide in the past five… Continue

Added by Billy on April 29, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Billy The "NAFTA Flu"

The “NAFTA Flu”: Critics Say Swine Flu Has Roots in Forcing Poor Countries to Accept Western Agribusiness As the US reports its first known death from the global swine flu, the World Health Organization has raised its pandemic threat level… Continue

Added by Billy on April 29, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Billy Single Payer Healthcare is the only solution. Take Action >>

Health Care Meltdown by Robert LeBow, MD, revised and updated by Dr. C. Rocky White - a Republican doctor so fed up with the needless suffering caused by the insurance industry that he has become a leading advocate for single payer... There are no more excuses fo… Continue

Added by Billy on April 29, 2009 at 1:49pm — 1 Comment

Billy Stop Immigration Raids.

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Added by Billy on April 28, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Ursi President Barack Obama issue Proclamation for April 22, 2009 "Earth Day"

Read it here: Presidential Earth Day Proclamation Continue

Added by Ursi on April 22, 2009 at 2:07pm — No Comments

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