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Beirut's "You Stink!" Garbage Protesters Dig In, Calling for Fall of Lebanese Regime

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<h2>Beirut's "You Stink!" Garbage Protesters Dig In, Calling for Fall of Lebanese Regime</h2>
<span>Beirut's "You Stink!" Garbage Protesters Dig In, Calling for Fall of Lebanese Regime</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span>Al Jazeera</span></div>
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<p>New clashes between anti-government demonstrators and Lebanese police left at least 20 people injured in the capital Beirut on Sunday, as protests — which started amid outrage over officials’ failure to collect garbage in Beirut — raged for a second day in an intensifying political crisis that the prime minister said could potentially see the government dissolved.</p>
<p>Footage from the scene showed ambulances ferrying out casualties after security forces fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons at demonstrators protesting against what they call Lebanon's overall political dysfunction.</p>
<p>Among the thousands of protesters about 200 youths, some wearing scarves or masks over their faces, threw stones and bottles filled with sand at police and tried to pull down security barricades. Some of those injured had suffered smoke inhalation and at least 13 were hospitalized, according to the Lebanese Red Cross.</p>
<p>Protesters had camped overnight in the capital's Riad al-Solh square to wait for Prime Minister Tammam Salam's response to police violence at protests the day before.</p>
<p>In a televised address on Sunday morning, Salam said members of the security forces would be held accountable for <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/injured-beirut-stink-protest-rubbish-150822203615018.html" rel="nofollow">the violence against protesters</a>. Salam also called on an emergency parliament session on Thursday to deal with the country's ongoing political crisis.</p>
<p>"I have been, like many other fellow Lebanese, patient enough, but yesterday's outcry should not be ignored," he said. "I was never in this for a position in government, I am one of you. I am with the people. Do not pit this conflict [as] one camp against the other. Target all the politicians."</p>
<p>Angered by Salam's speech, a number of the protesters chanted, "The people want the fall of the regime."</p>
<p>Tensions in Lebanon have peaked recently after protests against the government's inability to ensure that garbage is disposed of effectively. Last month the country was left with mounting piles of trash after politicians, divided by regional and local conflict, were unable to agree where to dump the capital's refuse.</p>
<p>The crisis was temporarily resolved when the garbage was finally cleared, but bickering within the government over which company to award the new contract has exposed it to allegations of corruption from opponents.</p>
<p>The prime minister said on Sunday that if legislators could not reach an agreement on the rubbish crisis on Thursday, there is a possibility the government will be dissolved.</p>
<p>"If the meeting is not productive, there is no need for the council of ministers all together," Salam said.</p>
<p>An online group named "You Stink!" along with other civil society groups organized this weekend's protests, calling on Lebanese people to join them in a revolt against what they called "a corrupt system."</p>
<p>Azza El Masri, a member of the "You Stink" campaign, told Al Jazeera that protesters are not backing down and that the demonstrations will continue.</p>
<p>"We want Tammam Salam and all the political class to resign. When people were chanting that they wanted to topple the regime yesterday, they were serious. We want to topple [the government], and we won't stop until we do," El Masri said.</p>
<p>"<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YouReek?src=" rel="nofollow">YouReek</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YouStink?src=" rel="nofollow">YouStink</a> [protesters] have vowed to stay at Riad al-Solh until the Minister of Environment resigns, until those who were randomly arrested are freed, and until the riot police are held accountable for the violence," El Masri added.</p>
<p>Joey Ayoub, who is one of the organizers of "You Stink" and was present during the protests on Saturday and Sunday, said protesters were met with police brutality, tear gas canisters and water cannons.</p>
<p>"As one of those who helped organize this protest, I can safely tell you that the government’s reaction was beyond anything we were expecting," Ayoub said.</p>
<p>The Lebanese Red Cross said at least 15 civilians were injured during the protests on Saturday in addition to 35 officers.</p>
<p><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/8/23/beirut-protesters-call-for-fall-of-lebanese-government.html" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Al Jazeera</a></p>
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<p>Clashes intensify as protests sparked by the city's garbage problem widen in scope, and the prime minister calls an emergency parliament session.</p>
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<p>Leaders of influential civil rights movement release the most comprehensive set of policy proposals yet calling for federal and state laws to combat police killings.</p>
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<p>How the group’s mission went from racial integration to black separatism — and eventually to lobbying on behalf of corporate interests and the police state.</p>
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Launching "Campaign Zero," Racial Justice Movement Demands Stricter U.S. Policing Laws

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<h2>Launching "Campaign Zero," Racial Justice Movement Demands Stricter U.S. Policing Laws</h2>
<span>Launching "Campaign Zero," Racial Justice Movement Demands Stricter U.S. Policing Laws</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="http://www.guardiannews.com/" rel="nofollow">The Guardian</a></span></div>
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<p>Leaders in the new civil rights movement campaigning against the killings of African Americans by police set out their most comprehensive set of policies and demands so far on Friday, as they moved to intensify their rapidly increasing influence on U.S. politics.</p>
<p>The coalition of protesters outlined proposals for new laws at federal and state levels such as restricting the use of deadly force by officers, outlawing the supply of military equipment to police departments, instituting training to prevent racial bias and forcing the U.S. government to keep a comprehensive record of fatal incidents.</p>
<p>“We must end police violence so we can live and feel safe in this country,” the group stated on a new website, Campaign Zero, which also establishes an issue-by-issue system for monitoring the policy positions of candidates for the Democratic and Republican U.S. presidential nominations.</p>
<p>The unveiling of the detailed policy platform followed a series of disruptions by protesters affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement of presidential campaign rallies held by presidential candidates across the country, including former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. The actions have succeeded in pushing police and criminal justice reform to the forefront of the race for the Democratic nomination.</p>
<p>“America is finally waking up to this very necessary and critical conversation about race, equity and preserving the life and dignity of all citizens,” Brittany Packnett, one of the activists behind Campaign Zero, said in an interview.</p>
<p>“These policies, like our resistance, will save lives and introduce a new way of viewing political strategy,” said Aurielle Lucier, the co-founder of the Atlanta-based activist group It’s Bigger Than You. “This is a blueprint for ending police violence,” said DeRay McKesson, another leading activist involved in the project.</p>
<p>The manifesto was shared with the Guardian in advance of its publication. It calls for the establishment of a new national standard authorizing police officers to use deadly force “only when there is an imminent threat to an officer’s life or the life of another person” and the use of deadly force is “strictly unavoidable.” Under a 1985 US supreme court ruling, officers may currently use deadly force if they believe a fleeing suspect poses “a significant threat” of killing or seriously injuring someone.</p>
<p>The protesters’ platform also requests further legislation mandating all police officers to wear body cameras, lowering the standard of proof for convictions in federal civil rights inquiries, and banning police union contracts that they say obstruct investigations into officers responsible for fatalities.</p>
<p>Packnett said the policies had been compiled over several months and incorporated some recommendations made earlier this year by President Obama’s White House policing task force, on which she sat.</p>
<p>It also comprises ideas from more than two dozen activists and organizers to ensure it is “truly reflective of the broad and decentralized nature of the movement,” she said. McKesson said: “It’s based on what we have learned over the past year and on direct feedback from protesters around the country.”</p>
<p>Among other requests, the group also called on Friday for new laws to prohibit police departments from operating minimum quotas for traffic tickets and arrests, and to limit court fines and fees for low-income people. The aggressive prosecution for minor offenses of black residents in Ferguson, Missouri, is seen as being partly responsible for the unleashing of dramatic protests in the St Louis suburb after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, last year.</p>
<p>The campaigners also called for laws requiring departments to devise plans for “recruitment and retention of minority police officers.” While two-thirds of Ferguson’s population is black, more than 90% of its police officers were white at the time of Brown’s death, leading to further tensions and alienation, according to residents.</p>
<p>Campaign Zero also proposes the sweeping decriminalization of substance offenses credited with blighting poorer communities with widespread criminal records, such as consuming alcohol in public and possessing marijuana, which is now legal in several states. Such offenses have been aggressively policed under so-called “broken windows” theory, the abolition of which is called for by the protesters.</p>
<p>The manifesto was published by McKesson, Packnett, Johnetta Elzie and Samuel Sinyangwe. The four are co-founders of We The Protesters, a prominent section of a wider protest movement that is frequently referred to, in general terms, as Black Lives Matter.</p>
<p>Packnett, 30, is an activist in St Louis, and sat on Obama’s taskforce. McKesson, 30, and Elzie, 25, are among the most prominent protesters thrust to the national stage by the demonstrations in Ferguson. Sinyangwe, 24, is a community organizer and policy specialist.</p>
<p>While the name has been applied to a loosely affiliated collection of activist groups in the year since the Ferguson demonstrations, Black Lives Matter is a single organization that was founded following the death of Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012.</p>
<p>“We’re all part of the movement for black lives, which is different to Black Lives Matter as an organization,” said Sinyangwe. “The movement is wider than that organization. They and we are pieces of it.”</p>
<p>In New Hampshire last week, a group of activists from the Boston chapter of Black Lives Matter had planned to disrupt Clinton’s campaign event. But the group was prevented from entering and instead held a heated private meeting with the Democratic frontrunner, who has yet to unveil formal platforms on racial justice or criminal justice reform.</p>
<p>A video recording, released this week, showed a frank yet tense conversation: the activists accused Clinton of supporting criminal justice policies under her husband’s administration that they called “your mistakes” – including the draconian 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which is widely argued to have adversely affected African Americans.</p>
<p>Asked by Black Lives Matter activist Julius Jones to explain “how do you actually feel that’s different than you did before?” Clinton responded: “I don’t believe you change hearts, you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate. You’re not going to change every heart, you’re not. But at the end of the day we can do a whole lot to change some hearts, and change some systems, and create more opportunities for people who deserve to have them.”</p>
<p>Speaking to the Guardian, Jones was sharply critical of Clinton’s response. “This whole idea of ‘You can’t change hearts’ – well, it’s hopeless,” Jones said. “It’s doubly damning to hear it from Hillary Clinton, who bears a unique personal responsibility and is also trying to lead our country.”</p>
<p>Clinton, her main Democratic rival Senator Bernie Sanders and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, have all openly courted prominent members of this new civil rights movement. McKesson was invited to Clinton’s formal campaign launch in New York in June and on Monday engaged with Sanders directly on Twitter to organize a meeting centered on the Democratic candidates’ racial justice platform.</p>
<p>The Guardian understands the meeting between Sanders and McKesson has yet to take place.</p>
<p>The manifesto authors credited the protest movement with contributing to the decision by Sanders and O’Malley to publish policy proposals on racial justice – and for some of the content therein – and by Clinton to outline specific reforms in her campaign speeches.</p>
<p>The movement appears determined to ratchet up the pressure as the presidential nomination contest continues. Earlier this month Sanders was forced to hand over the microphone at one of his own rallies in Seattle, when a pair of Black Lives Matter activists took to the stage and demanded the crowd observe four and a half minutes of silence in memory of Michael Brown.</p>
<p>“I was going to tell Bernie how racist this city is, even with all of these progressives,” said 23-year-old activist Marissa Janae Johnson, amid boos from the crowd as she took to the stage. “But you’ve already done that for me.”</p>
<p>Daunasia Yancey, another of the Black Lives Matter Boston activists present during the meeting with Clinton last week, said that presidential candidates across the political spectrum should expect to have events shut down by activists mobilizing under their banner.</p>
<p>“When white people do it, it’s political engagement and revolution – and when black people do it, it’s violent and disruptive and the worst thing to ever happen, when in reality the worst thing to ever happen was Tamir Rice dying on an Ohio playground,” she said, referring to the 12-year-old killed by a white police officer in Cleveland last year.</p>
<p>“The system isn’t broken. It has been built like this and we’re saying we have to operate in a new way,” Yancey said.</p>
<p>“Even now, I’m baffled that candidates aren’t just coming out with [racial justice policies] and that they are surprised to be shut down. We’re here. It’s very clear what the movement’s goals are and what we’re willing to do to advance that message.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/21/protesters-unveil-police-policy-proposals" rel="nofollow">Originally published by The Guardian</a></p>
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<p>Leaders of influential civil rights movement release the most comprehensive set of policy proposals yet calling for federal and state laws to combat police killings.</p>
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<p>Many held placards reading “Don't trade our needs for corporate greed” and “Enough is enough.”</p>
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<p>Due to burgeoning resistance movements, the Cascadia region in the Pacific Northwest has proven to be extraordinarily challenging for companies seeking to make it a carbon energy export hub.</p>
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Picturing the End of Fossil Fuels

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<h2>Picturing the End of Fossil Fuels</h2>
<span>Picturing the End of Fossil Fuels</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/09-3" rel="nofollow">Common Dreams</a></span></div>
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<p>When they say a picture is worth a thousand words, writers rebel (or they write 1,500 words). I mean, pictures are great, but they can’t get across complicated concepts. Except when they can.</p>
<p>Which would be the summer of 2015, on two separate occasions. Early in the summer, on the West Coast of the United States, “kayaktivists” in Seattle Harbor surrounded Shell Oil’s giant Polar Pioneer drilling rig, trying to keep it from getting out of the harbor. They didn’t succeed in that, of course—the Coast Guard cleared them out of the way—but they did succeed in reminding everyone of the scale of the destruction Shell has planned. The sight of those small, many kayaks against that one brute drilling platform brought home the existential nature of the struggle: it’s all of us little guys, against the immense, concentrated wealth and power of the biggest companies on earth.</p>
<p>... but sadly, the forces behind those tanks are still in control. His courage faced them down for a moment, but their implacable might won the day.</p>
<p>In the energy world, though, I’m willing to bet that these images are poison to the fossil fuel industry. It’s not just because of their sheer inhuman oversized ugliness, but because they manage to look somehow so antique. Or rather, so modern in a postmodern world. We’re moving quickly to a planet where the small and distributed makes more sense than the centralized and gigantic—that’s why you’re likely getting your news from the net, not a TV channel. Even without understanding the science of climate change—the horror that the carbon from that digger and that drill rig is driving—you have a visceral sense that they’re in the wrong moment, the wrong mood.</p>
<p>The fight against Arctic oil and German coal will be long and hard. But we already know, once we’ve won, what the pictures in the textbooks will be.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/08/21/picturing-end-fossil-fuels" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Common Dreams</a></p>
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<p>Of course, there is little political will to organize anything this effective in California because the banking lobby deploys too much money throughout the political process.</p>
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<p>We can’t say we are protecting our children’s future unless we are doing what science says we must do to recover climate stability.</p>
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<p>How the group’s mission went from racial integration to black separatism — and eventually to lobbying on behalf of corporate interests and the police state.</p>
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London Tube Workers Threaten Strike This Week, Demand Bosses Revoke Proposals

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<h2>London Tube Workers Threaten Strike This Week, Demand Bosses Revoke Proposals</h2>
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<p>London's underground train system employees have threatened to strike over current changes in their working conditions, calling for two 24-hour blockages on Wednesday and Friday of this week.</p>
<p>After six days of talks, London's tube operators last Friday said a controversial new night service would involve staff working extra hours without extra pay – with the exact working hours often finalized at very short notice, meaning workers' leisure time could essentially be held hostage by their employers.</p>
<p>The outcry from workers – particularly their latest threat to strike on Aug. 26 and 28 – has prompted tube bosses to hold off instituting the proposed changes.</p>
<p>The conflict comes on the heels of recent government plans for draconian new striking laws that will severely restrict U.K. workers' rights to protest working conditions. Since unions have formed a crucial backbone to activist movements in Britain since the 1800s, many feel curbing their activities now sends a powerful message regarding the length to which the current Conservative government is prepared to go to crush public dissent.</p>
<p>Disgruntled workers across various sectors have expressed concern that their journeys to and from work this week will be disrupted by the possible strike. Meanwhile, the British media has focused added attention on the unpopularity of the work stoppage.</p>
<p>But Phil Graham, a tube driver and representative of the Associated Society of Locomotive Steam Enginemen and Firemen, says tube drivers earn on average £50,000 ($78,000) a year, and that the public's animosity towards the strikes has focused heavily on this not inconsiderable wage.</p>
<p>“First of all, this strike is not about money, it's about spending quality time away from work,” explained Graham. “Secondly, I totally agree when told other professions don't earn enough, [like] nurses, firemen, etc. But people should be fighting for them to improve their pay and conditions, not trying to drag others down."</p>
<p>"We should be getting away from this race to the bottom. There are parts of [the bill] that are so oppressive even Thatcher would have winced at it. If it goes through, I'll be shocked as a trade union activist if I can go a year without being arrested. We should all be organizing and fighting now while we can.”</p>
<p>Mick Cash, the General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, said: "The action is absolutely solid on London Underground ‎across all unions, all grades and all lines and depots."</p>
<p>“That sends out the clearest possible message to [London Mayor] Boris Johnson and his tube bosses that they must now take the staff grievances seriously and get back into genuine and meaningful talks,” Cash added.</p>
<p>Echoing his sentiments, Unite regional officer Hugh Roberts said, “London Underground’s vague assurances over work/life balance and unsocial shifts ring hollow and don’t go far enough in giving our members the security they need to plan their home life over the long-term. If not enough people sign up for night shifts what happens then?"</p>
<p>"London Underground has made it clear that people will effectively be forced to work with its insistence that staff are contracted to work 24/7," he added. "It is a move that tears up existing contracts and runs contrary to the actions of any reasonable employer wanting to change shift patterns. The night tube can’t be run on the wing and a prayer that enough people will sign up for unsocial shifts. Nor can be it run by ripping up agreed terms of employment."</p>
<p>Transport for London (TfL) has made every attempt to apologize for the strikes, trying to convince customers that the unions are being unreasonable and uncommunicative.</p>
<p>“Having previously argued that it was all about 'work-life balance,' certain unions have now made a whole series of unaffordable demands for more pay, shorter working hours and the reversal of the modernization of the Tube,” argued London Underground Chief Operating Officer Steve Griffiths.</p>
<p>“The £1.4 billion cost would either mean our customers being hit with an extra 6.5 per cent fares increase on top of the annual increases already assumed or wholesale cuts for plans to modernize the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines. No responsible management could even contemplate such demands," Griffiths said. "Our customers and London's businesses want to see this dispute resolved and, instead of threatening strikes, we call on the unions to engage in calm and realistic discussion with us to achieve that.”</p>
<p>But currently the meetings have dragged and dragged, with TfL bosses and potential strikers entering a second week of solid negotiations and no agreement in sight.</p>
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Studies Show That Psychedelic Brew Ayahuasca Could Cure Diabetes

<p><a href="http://cdn11.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Ayahuasca_and_chacruna_cocinando.jpg"><img alt="Ayahuasca_and_chacruna_cocinando" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-38898" height="300" src="http://cdn9.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Ayahuasca_and_chacruna_cocinando-400x300.jpg" width="400" /></a>Studies have indicated that Ayahuasca, the psychoactive brew that has been ritualistically ingested by indigenous tribes since before recorded history could potentially help in the fight against diabetes.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.3820.html">a recent study</a> conducted by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, <em>“Using three different mouse and human islet in vivo–based models, we show that harmine is able to induce beta cell proliferation, increase islet mass and improve glycemic control. These observations suggest that harmine analogs may have unique therapeutic promise for human diabetes therapy.”</em></p>
<p>As many who are familiar with the drug will know, Ayahuasca contains harmine analogs, along with a number of other psychoactive and nonpsychoactive ingredients.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150309134629.htm">Andrew Stewart, MD, of the Icahn School of Medicine</a> who led the study concluded that, “<em>Our results provide a large body of evidence demonstrating that the harmine drug class can make human beta cells proliferate at levels that may be relevant for diabetes treatment. While we still have a lot of work to do in improving the specificity and potency of the harmine and related compounds, we believe these results represent a key step toward more effective future treatment of diabetes.”</em></p>
<p>The Ayahuasca brew is traditionally prepared using the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and Psychotria viridis leaves. Psychotria viridis contains N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in the leaves while Banisteriopsis caapi contains beta-carbolines such as harmine and harmaline.</p>
<p>DMT has long been known to have powerful psychoactive properties that can create life-changing spiritual experiences.</p>
<p>Until recently, studies of drugs like Ayahuasca have been strictly forbidden. New studies conducted by independent researchers are finding that psychedelic drugs are not only safe but also have a great ability to heal people both physically and emotionally.</p>
<p>The United States Supreme Court has unanimously ruled in favor of the legal religious use of ayahuasca by the União do Vegetal, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed the Santo Daime Church’s freedom to use Ayahuasca for religious purposes. However, ayahuasca’s principally active ingredient, DMT, remains a Schedule I controlled substance, carrying a steep prison sentence.</p>
<p>It has also been said that <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/why-cinnamon-for-diabetes-treatment-is-among-most-simple-effective-solutions/">cinnamon</a>, <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/turmeric-proven-to-fight-diabetesagain/">turmeric</a>, and even <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/new-study-drinking-coffee-could-cut-diabetes-risk-in-half/">coffee</a> can help against diabetes.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jgvibes">John Vibes</a> writes for True Activist and is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter-culture and the drug war.</p>
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