Earth Hour -cities

a list of cities involved in Earth Hour 2008 and info on how to be involved! We have asked the organizers to support an effort to allow more cities to participate, by having a Monthly Earth Hour date, with cities choosing a date in the next several months; this was not well publicized, with all of the other social networking being done, our energy awareness groups did not learn about this until this morning, the 29th of March! Visit our action group Change.org/EarthHour2

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Central Illinois participating in the truckers' shutdown?

If so, I have a contact for the ABC affiliate in Champagne and they would like to coordinate an on camera interview to get some background information on the shutdown.PM me ASAP if you are interested in this..Join TruckersForum.Net

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A Wound in The Earth - Mud Volcano

The Victims of Indonesia's Mud VolcanoOn the island of Java, thousands left homeless and billions/USD in property destroyed by one of the world's most bizarre ecological disasters; a 100-ft. (30 m) plume of white smoke billows into the sky, obscuring the sun and spreading sulfurous odor of rotting eggs. Search google: CSI Sumatra 2005..

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Coast Guard hunts drug-running semi-subs

The boats are built in the Colombian jungle. They sail largely beneath the surface of the water but cannot submerge completely like a true submarine. They are the latest escalation of a tactical race between smugglers and the U.S. Coast Guard. We pay more to fight Drug Wars; they make more on sales...who is winning? Vote on Change.org/EndWars

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Greg Mitchell: U.S. Soldier Killed Herself in Iraq; or NOT

Peterson, a devout Mormon, had graduated from Flagstaff High School and earned a psychology degree from Northern Arizona University on a military scholarship. She was trained in interrogation techniques at Fort Huachuca in Arizona, and was sent to the Middle East in 2003. High Crimes and Misdemeanors on Change.org

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Was Rev. Wright wrong? 24 March 2008

Trinity United Church member Prof. Dwight Hopkins on Obama's rebuke of Rev. WrightDwight N. Hopkins teaches at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His latest works are Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion; Walk Together Children: black and women's theologies, church and theological education; Share comments on Change.org

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