Chris Lugo: Tennessee Green Party Candidate for US Senate

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Chris explains his major platform positions.
Related Links ::: Chris4Senate.org, David Rovics, Mobile Broadcast News

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Interferon: Bad for Hepatitis C, Bad for America

Interferon is the most common treatment for hepatitis c. It comes with side effects you should be aware of before you use it, because these sides effects will last a lifetime and your doctor will probably not be straight with you about them because your docter is being payed BIG money to prescribe it to you.

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More Hepatitis C Videos @ In Good Health

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Surviving Primary Liver Cancer

Hepatitis C & Cancer Survivor, Lloyd Wright,
discuses alternative means to defeat Primary liver Cancer.
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Related Links::: Selenium, Vitamin K, LloydWright.org

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Drugs to be Avoided if You've Got Hepatitis C

The first of a series of chats with award
winning author, hepatitis C & Cancer survivor: Lloyd Wright.

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This time we're chatting about ...
what Hepatitis C sufferers should avoid, other than alcohol.
See Also ~ SAM-e, Lithium, Viagra, Lloyd Wright

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Rx Cannabis

Related Links ::: NeoVids

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Marijuana & Cancer

6 minutes ~ Download Now ~ Bandwidth ChallengedMedical marijuana does a lot more than just enable people to eat when they don't want to. Research now shows that marijuana's active ingredient, THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, blocks a known cancer-related protein that's already the target of drugs such as ImClone System Inc.'s Erbitux and Amgen Inc.'s Vectibix.

Related Links ::: Marijuana Stops Growth of Lung Cancer Tumors, THC Fight's Lung Cancer, THC shrank tumors, scientists say, more about Barbara Jackson

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Common Ground Collective: Solidarity Not Charity

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During the week of Thanksgiving hundreds of people from all walks of life came to New Orleans and volunteered with the Common Ground Collective to help those in need in what ever way they could.

I worked on this video overview of the work of the Common Ground Collective along with several other volunteers.

WHO IS COMMON GROUND:
Common Ground Collective is a local, community-run organization
offering assistance, mutual aid and support to New Orleans
communities that have been historically neglected and underserved.

Common Ground's teams of volunteers include: medical and health
providers, aid workers, community organizers, legal representatives
and people from all over with broad skills from all walks of life.

VISION:
Our work aims to give hope and stability to communities by: working
with them, providing materials, money, information and people working
together in rebuilding their lives in just and sustainable ways.

Our work within the collective and in community aims to be
non-oppressive and respectful to people historically marginalized in
society.

Related Info ::: Common Ground Collective, Volunteer: 504-218-6613, Contribute: 504-913-5635

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Katrina Relief Audio Message from The Barefoot Doctor

An Audio message from the founder of the medical, clothing & food grass roots relief facility in Washington Square Park, New Orleans

Related Links ::: Free Grass Roots Feeding Facility in New Orleans to be Shut Down

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Free Grass Roots Feeding Facility in New Orleans to be Shut Down

The only kitchen serving fresh, nutritious meals to the people of New Orleans east of Canal St. is being threatened with closure by city officials.

The loose-knit coalition of groups known as 'the Rainbow Family of Living Light', best known for their yearly 4th of July Rainbow Gatherings at rotating locations throughout the country, have been instrumental in the relief effort following Hurricane Katrina. The mobile kitchen they founded in Waveland, Mississippi, the area hardest hit by the storm, has been consistently serving 2,000 people a day since its inception in early September.

In New Orleans, the Rainbow Family established a kitchen over a month ago serving three meals a day to the homeless, nearly homeless, and underserved people of New Orleans. A half mile away is a facility with huge tents and serving areas set up by FEMA, but it is for FEMA contractors only, and large signs posted outside say "No public services available". In fact, FEMA has been very visibly absent in the city of New Orleans, from their initial arrival five days late to their inexplicable lack of public centers in the city itself.

The "Welcome Home Kitchen", as the Rainbow Family's Kitchen is known, has been serving well over 700 people each day for three meals a day, as well as providing free medical care, a distribution center of clothing and supplies, a community bulletin board and information table, and a sense of camaraderie that has brought smiles and hugs from people in the most desperate of circumstances.

But now the Deputy Chief Administrative Officer of the New Orleans Emergency Operations Center, Ms. Cynthia Lear, has declared that the city will unilaterally shut the kitchen down on Wednesday, providing no alternative and no resources for the underserved in New Orleans. Ms. Lear has stated that there is no appeals process for this decision, even though community members at the Fauberg-Marigny neighborhood council meeting on Monday gave virtually unanimous support to the ongoing work of the kitchen.

Please call ms. cynthia sylvan lear, the deputy chief administrative officer of the new orleans emergency operations center at 504-658-2180

and Mayor Nagin at (504) 658-4924, Fax: (504) 658-4938
to express your dismay that such a resource would be unilaterally dismantled by the government while it is providing such an important resource for the community.

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I'm in New Orleans, now.
I recieved the above post yesterday morning.
They Still Need People To Call.

They didn't shut it down today but there is always tommorrow. No official will say they won't. There was a communty meeting today (i filmed it) Nagin say'd they would work with us but then offered 3 liasons one after another each one was rebuked by the founder of the encampment one for for bringing in the cops to harass, one for bringing in the ICE (homeland security?) to harass, and the last for showing up this morning with health inspectors looking to shut it down.

They have served 16,000 free meals and no ones got sick.
This started as a free medic place and the communty started pitching in ... and needing food... there are a little over 30 full time volunteers working to feed this communty.
FEMA AIN'T DONE SHIT.

I got some great footage of houses in the middle of the street, a boat in a tree and interviews with people surveying their damage.

The Barge... on a school bus

photo by On The Ground
I haven't yet made it to the really bad part. I need to print myself a press pass 1st cause it's "the forbiddn zone".

I'm still with out a video editing machine so it'll be awhile before I can release the footage.

There are wireless cafes & bar's available to work from. :)

Related Links ::: Rainbow Family, REMA, Fluxvew Katrina Video anArchive
... I could find no press coverage of today's meeting... Many citizens BLASTED the Mayor, FEMA and the electric utility for.. their neglect... for out sourcing clean up jobs and filling the available housing with cheap immigrent labor and contractors.

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Confessions of a Wal-Mart Hit Man

It has been a wild couple of weeks as the release of the Wal-Mart film gets closer, and Wal-Mart gets angrier.

They've touched a nerve in Bentonville with the release of an extended video of former Wal-Mart manager Weldon Nicholson, just one of the stories they tell in the film. A manager for 17 years, he confesses deeply personal stories about his crisis of conscience, how it was to see workers who couldn't afford to eat, marking family businesses for destruction, and bribing local officals.
~ Watch extended scenes from the interview with Weldon here

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US poor set to lose food stamps

With more than 38 million Americans too poor to buy adequate food, the US Congress has begun to take away the food stamps many of them receive.

The Republican majority on the House Agriculture Committee has approved budget cuts that will take "food stamps" away from an estimated 300,000 people and could cut off school lunches and breakfasts for 40,000 children.

The action came as the US Government reported that the number of people who are hungry because they can't afford to buy enough food rose to 38.2 million in 2004, an increase of seven million in five years.

The number represents nearly 12 per cent of US households.
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BioTech 2005Science and Democracy

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Filmed at the BioTech 2005 Counter Conference in Philadelphia between June 18th -21st; this panel discussion video Features Mike Susko (Citizens for Responsible Care and Research), Pete Shanks (Center for Genetics & Society), George Annas (Council for Responsible Genetics), Pam Klebs (Health Lies Exposed.com).

Corporations dictate much of the policy making in regard to health sciences. Some of these decisions could be species threatening. People need more representation in such life altering decisions.

Related Links ::: Hep C Solutions, Citizens for Responsible Care and Research, Center for Genetics & Society, Council for Responsible Genetics, Global Lawyers and Physicians, Health Lies Exposed.com.

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Bio Tech 2005 ~Labor Unions & Healthcare Benefits

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Filmed at, and prior to, the BioTech 2005 Counter Conference in Philadelphia between June 14th -21st; this video Features Fabricio Rodriguez (Jobs With Justice), Jeff Brooks (President; TWU #234), Pedro Rodriguez (Action Alliance for Senior Citizens) and Adam Tsai, MD (Physicians for a Natonal Healthcare Program).

The corporations recognize that paying for healthcare in an environment that is geared solely to profiting from sick people will bankrupt them sending all of your and their money to the Pharmaceutical companies. So, of course they don't want to be responsible for paying for the healthcare of their employees. That's why everytime a major labor contract comes up for negotiations the companies have been taking the offensive by demanding unions to accept LESS healthcare benefits. The best solution for both would be Universal Healthcare but that requires employers and heathcare recipients to take on the Pharmaceutical Lobby ...

Related Links ::: Jobs With Justice, Transit Workers Union #234, Action Alliance of Senior Citizens, Hep C Solutions, Physicians for a National Health Program, Kucinich's Universal Healthcare Plan

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BioTech 2005Adverse Events and Pharmaceutical Drug Studies

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Filmed at the BioTech 2005 Counter Conference in Philadelphia between June 18th -21st; this panel discussion video Features Pedro Rodriguez (Action Alliance for Senior Citizens); Beth McConnel (Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group: PennPIRG) on VIOXX; Adam Tsai, MD (Physicians for a Natonal Healthcare Program) and Mike Susko (Citizens for Responsible Care and Research).

Drug Companies buy FDA approval for drugs like VIOXX with hefty fees that are necessary to fund the agency and they use partial discloser and outright lies in clinical tests supporting their products benefits. They are driven by profit; employing an army of professional liars to persuade doctors to prescribe profitable medications to patients who don't need them, regardless of adverse effects.

Related Links ::: Action Alliance of Senior Citizens, Hep C Solutions, Physicians for a National Health Program, PennPIRG, Citizens for Responsible Care and Research, Gelsinger Lawsuit, VIOXX Lawsuits

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BioTech 2005What Senior Citizens Need to knowabout Medicare Changes

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Filmed at the BioTech 2005 Counter Conference in Philadelphia between June 18th -21st; this panel discussion video Features Pedro Rodriguez (Action Alliance for Senior Citizens); Adam Tsai, MD (Physicians for a Natonal Healthcare Program); Walter Tsou, MD (Former Philadelphia Health Commissione); Walter Lear, MD (Former Regional Health Commissioner); Selma Jame (Global Women's Strike); Brian Tokar (Institute for Social Ecology).

Next year will be hard on Medicare recipients as sweeping modifications begin to take effect. Learn what will be different and what you can do about it.

Related Links ::: Action Alliance of Senior Citizens, Hep C Solutions, Global Womens Strike, Physicians for a National Health Program, Institute for Social Ecology

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BioTech 2005Drug Company Ethics

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Filmed at the BioTech 2005 Counter Conference in Philadelphia between June 18th -21st; this panel discussion video features Dr. Adam Tsai, MD (Physicians for a National Health Program) and Pedro Rodriguez (Action Alliance of Senior Citizens). Drug Reps are a lazy doctors best friend. Get the perspective on drug company gifts to doctors and other heavy handed tactics Drug Companies use to push pills on the public for Profit with no regard to your health.

Related Links ::: Action Alliance of Senior Citizens, Hep C Solutions, Dennis Kucinich on Healthcare for All ~ RealVideo, Physicians for a National Health Program, Patents and blood cells, Pharmaceutical corporations accused of Genocide

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BioTech 2005 ~ Farmers Speak Outand the Really Free Market

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This was filmed at the Really Really Free Market... it's really free because people really give stuff away. Food Not Bombs, fed people, but that's nothing new for them... it's what they do.. feed hungry people for free off the waste of corporate glutiny. I gave out about 20 Fluxview News DVDs.

Through out the day Farmers took the mic to explain why Genetically Modified Food is bad for us and all living things. We're rapidly approaching the point of no return with Genetically Modified Food and most people don't have a clue... I didn't.

I listened to Marly Hornik, a GMO activist singer songwriter, perform twice at the BioTech events and cried both times. The song at the end of this video seems to speak to my own self doubts and constant self evaluation. It's about living your lifes path, about the path with an uncertain future, about courage and the lack there of and persevering to do what must be done. ... at least that's what it means to me.

Saturday, June 18th 2005 ~ Philadephia, PA

Related Links ::: Marly's Angels, Northeast Resistance Against Genetic Engineering, Food Not Bombs, Buy Local PA, Pennypack Farms (Lisa Mosca), Rodale Research Institute (Sheherd Ogden), Ignacio Chapela, IMC Photos, Heartbreak in the Heartland

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BioTech 2005 ~ Percy SchmeiserFarmer Speak Out

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Percy Schmeiser has been growing canola for 40 years. He's been experimenting, developing his own varieties, using his own seed. Then Monsanto, the giant multinational agro-chemical company that is at the forefront of developing genetically modified foods, accused him of patent infringement and demanded restitution for its seeds. They stole his plants, seeds & research because of cross pollenation with GMO plants that other people had planted within pollenaton range. If GMO's touch your crops... Monsanto owns your crop and will sue you. Pollenation is not containable. "I never put those plants on my land," says Schmeiser. "The question is, where do Monsanto's rights end and mine begin?"

Percy gives a full account of the specific alegations and breaks down the facts about GMO's in this 13 minute video.

Saturday, June 18th 2005 ~ Philadephia, PA

Related Links ::: Monsanto vs Schmeiser, Bio Democracy Resource Links, Northeast Resistance Against Genetic Engineering, Heartbreak in the Heartland

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Congress Introduces H.R. 525/S. 406, Legislation that Hurts Your Healthcare

Congress has moved quickly this session to reintroduce the flawed Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2005 (H.R. 525/S. 406), legislation that creates federal Association Health Plans (AHPs) and lets insurers off the hook when it comes to protecting you and your family. We prevented this legislation from becoming law last year - now we need to stop it again.

Congress is trying to create this "new" kind of federal health insurance called Association Health Plans. But AHPs are really healthcare that hurts. AHPs mean no protection, no guarantee and no limits on price. They will be exempt from health and consumer protection laws you have in your state. We need to do something about healthcare, but AHPs will make things worse.

They May be voting on this TODAY!
SPEAK UP NOW!

See Also
Healthcare March @ the DNC 2004
Celibrate Ruebins birthday with the Insurance Company that killed him.

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