Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Free trade ain’t free | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 13, 2012 "TPP is Wall Street's global power grab -- a death sentence for people with AIDS, for endangered rainforests, family farmers, and ...

'Lesser Evil' Voters: Stop Enabling Your Abusers (part 2) | Mickey Z.

Photo Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 8, 2012 “I think it is dangerous to confuse the idea of democracy with elections. Just because you have elections doesn’t mean you’re a dem ...

Corporate Ecocide: It’s Much More Than Monsanto | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust "The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses." --Utah Phillips The other night, I started watc ...

Coffee Break in Anaheim | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 29, 2012 “The fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it’s for what we believe in.” --Captain P ...

PILLOW TALK: Totally, Locally | Deborah Goodwin

June 25, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- Yesterday, the Garden Goddess Suzanne gave me two beautiful heads of Napa cabbage that I bet would go for $10 each in Whole Foods. She claimed that she has so many she ...

Starving and Broke: Yemen's Renewed 'War on Terror | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 30, 2012 -- Yemeni forces continue to push against Islamic fighters affiliated with al-Qaeda. Their major victories come on the heels of the inauguration of Abd R ...

Occupy For Sharks And Oceans And All Those Who Defend Them | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 4, 2012 "I don't know of any governments or institutions that are doing anything to solve any of these problems. All over the world, though, ...

Occupy for All Species | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 19, 2012 "If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed, or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior towards anyone, ...

PILLOW TALK: Ready-Set-Garden! | Deborah Goodwin

Apr. 2, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- We are having an early Spring here in Vermont, and all patriotic Vermonters are getting ready to garden! Everyone has a garden here, from the native Vermonters who grew ...

DeOccupy GMOs: #CreateFoodDemocracy | Mickey Z.

Photo Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust "We must occupy the food system to create food democracy." --Vandana Shiva Mic Check: The health risks of genetically modified foods are well doc ...

Open the Gates: #DeOccupyConfirmationBias | Mickey Z.

Photo Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “Truth comes to all of us at different degrees and levels.” --Lenny Bruce Feb. 27, 2012 -- So, there I am at the gym -- teaching someone how to t ...