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Bike-Powered Local Food Movement Is Heading To Town Near You

June 27, 2016 Sarah McColl, www.takepart.com ,
By Sarah McColl for Take Part - Without the pack of bicycles swarming the streets of Orlando, Florida, Fleet Farming would be a garden-variety horticultural club. “The bicycle has made Fleet Farming what it is—a bunch of somethings going somewhere,” said program manager Michele Bumbier. In this case, the somethings are a few employees and a swarm of community volunteers, and the somewhere is a series of “farmlettes”—front lawns that have been transformed into small plots of high-yield crops. With all farmlettes within a two-mile radius, it’s local food on a micro scale.

America: The Land Of Terrorists And Massacres

June 22, 2016 Marsha Cole, www.blackagendareport.com , , , ,
By Marsha Cole for Black Agenda Report - The updated 2016 ROOTS historical chronicle finally got it right. Africans have resisted European/American terrorism from the moment it reared its ugly head to present day struggle against state sponsored police murders of African peoples. The current version of ROOTS reminds us that beheadings, lynchings, rapes, kidnappings, selling children, working and boiling people to death did not start with ISIL – these perverted and psychopathic practices constituted the building blocks of the American empire.

#BlackLivesMatter Speaks Out On Orlando Killings

June 21, 2016 Staff, www.blacklivesmatter.com , , , , ,
By Staff of Black Lives Matter - Homegrown terror is the product of a long history of colonialism, including state and vigilante violence. It is the product of white supremacy and capitalism, which deforms the spirit and fuels interpersonal violence. We especially hold space for our Latinx family now, knowing that the vast majority of those murdered were Latinx, and many were specifically Puerto Rican. From the forced migration of thousands of young people from the island of Puerto Rico to Orlando, to the deadly forced migration throughout Latin America and the Caribbean...

Given Orlando, Has U.S. Government Been Protecting Public?

June 14, 2016 Ivan Eland, www.huffingtonpost.com , ,
By Ivan Eland for The Huffington Post - The mass shooting in Orlando, Florida at a gay nightclub, by a man pledging a seemingly last-minute allegiance to the ISIS terror group, leads to questions about whether the U.S. government has been adequately protecting its citizens. Going back in time, the U.S. government inadvertently created al Qaeda by encouraging, funding, and arming radical Islamist fighters against the Soviet Union in faraway Afghanistan during the 1980s.

Don’t Let Orlando Nightclub Terror Further Strangle Civil Liberties

June 14, 2016 Chelsea E Manning, www.theguardian.com , ,
By Chelsea E Manning for The Guardian - This morning, I woke up in my cell to an even more shattered and fractured world. We are lost. We are devastated. We are bewildered. We are hurt. And we are angry. I haven’t been this angry since losing a soldier in my unit to an RPG attack in southeastern Baghdad during my deployment in Iraq in 2010. As a young queer kid growing up, I explored my identity through the Chicago and Washington DC club scene. As many have said, the club is our sanctuary – a place where we find ourselves, love ourselves and find community.

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