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Greece’s Radical Leftist Prime Minister Resigns In Defeat

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<h2>Greece’s Radical Leftist Prime Minister Resigns In Defeat</h2>
<span>Greece’s Radical Leftist Prime Minister Resigns In Defeat</span> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/ap_330983652992-1024x682.jpg?itok=u7S7Uw0B" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_narrow/public/field/image/ap_330983652992-1024x682.jpg?itok=u7S7Uw0B" /></a>
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<p>Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is resigning days after the Greek parliament officially approved a third stringent bailout package that will impose further austerity on the struggling archipelago.</p>
<p>Government officials told reporters Thursday that Tsipras <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/20/us-eurozone-greece-resignation-idUSKCN0QP1Q820150820" rel="nofollow">will turn in</a> his official resignation papers this afternoon and call for a new parliamentary election on September 20th. Tsipras hung on for weeks longer than eccentric Finance Minister Yannis Varoufakis, who motorcycled off into the sunset <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/greek-finance-minister-yanis-varoufakis-resigns-after-referendum-1436162284" rel="nofollow">immediately after</a> a July <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/07/06/3677132/greece-austerity-vote/" rel="nofollow">referendum</a> that appeared to put Greece on the verge of exiting the European Union.</p>
<p>In the weeks since that vote, cooler heads prevailed and struck a deal to keep Greece in the currency group — and keep a foot on the throat of the country’s economy. The deal “concede[s] ultimate authority over much of Greek policymaking” to the European Central Bank and other creditors, according to an analysis of the package <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/12/greece-bailout-terms-eurozone-policymaking-powers" rel="nofollow">from The Guardian</a>, and will bring “a radical overhaul of the greek economy, stipulating major reforms of health, welfare, pensions and taxation systems, alongside more ambitious privatization schemes.”</p>
<p>These reforms will make Greece’s social services less generous at a time when economic conditions are already so dire as to constitute a humanitarian crisis. Greece’s economy has shrunk by more than a quarter since the first bailout began, far exceeding International Monetary Fund (IMF) predictions that austerity would only cause a brief contraction before returning the country to growth. The deal is a catastrophic defeat for Tsipras’s administration, and observers believed it was likely he would lose his job one way or another from the time that he reluctantly called for lawmakers to approve the bailout.</p>
<p>Tsipras rose to the leadership of the country in January after Syriza, the radical leftist party he headed, won roughly half the seats in Greece’s parliament. Voters exhausted by five years of economic punishment at the hands of Greece’s european creditors hoped Tsipras’s team would be able to reverse the tide of austerity and outfox Germany’s Angela Merkel in negotiations over further financial assistance. But Tsipras’s party failed to win that political battle, even though it has become clear to both analysts and the IMF that Europe must forgive some of Greece’s bailout debts because the goals of both the old deals and the new one are almost certainly unattainable.</p>
<p>Tsipras could have opted to call a confidence vote within the parliament instead of resigning. The decision to quit and call new national elections instead signals that he felt the number of Syriza members who would oppose his continued leadership was too large to surmount by building a new coalition — or that he didn’t wish to split the party further than the renewed bailout deal already has.</p>
<p><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/08/20/3693510/greece-tsipras-resign/" rel="nofollow">Originally published by ThinkProgress</a></p>
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<p>Despite half its population claiming African roots, Brazil's police have been implicated in what rights groups call a genocide against black people.</p>
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<p>The sad truth about Shirin Barghi's #LastWords series is that it may never run out of material.</p>
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<p>Across Europe, debt audits are emerging as a key instrument calling austerity policies into question – from the Greek debt crisis to the Spanish Citizen Debt Audit Platform, to the LOBO loan scandal in U.K. councils.</p>
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<p>Dilma Rousseff faces calls for impeachment and accusations of corruption as demonstrators chant, "We don’t have politicians – we have thieves."</p>
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<p>There has been a surge in homelessness among young people in the U.K., as the real number of homeless is three times higher than the government's "official figures."</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>The sad truth about Shirin Barghi's #LastWords series is that it may never run out of material.</p>
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<p>Across Europe, debt audits are emerging as a key instrument calling austerity policies into question – from the Greek debt crisis to the Spanish Citizen Debt Audit Platform, to the LOBO loan scandal in U.K. councils.</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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<p>United Auto Workers have led a push for the AFL-CIO to dissolve its relationship with an international police union.</p>
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Somos Todos Iguais: Connecting Police Violence In the U.S. and Brazil

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<h2>Somos Todos Iguais: Connecting Police Violence In the U.S. and Brazil</h2>
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<p>Despite half its population claiming African roots, Brazil's police have been implicated in what rights groups call a genocide against black people.</p>
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<p>The sad truth about Shirin Barghi's #LastWords series is that it may never run out of material.</p>
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<p>Across Europe, debt audits are emerging as a key instrument calling austerity policies into question – from the Greek debt crisis to the Spanish Citizen Debt Audit Platform, to the LOBO loan scandal in U.K. councils.</p>
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<p>Dilma Rousseff faces calls for impeachment and accusations of corruption as demonstrators chant, "We don’t have politicians – we have thieves."</p>
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<p>There has been a surge in homelessness among young people in the U.K., as the real number of homeless is three times higher than the government's "official figures."</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>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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<p>The declaration cites Islamic teachings and urges Muslims to phase out greenhouse gas emissions and commit to renewable energy.</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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<p>Ferguson one year later. Plus, what YOU can do to tell big oil to go f*%@ themselves with a rusty pipe.</p>
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The Kids Call Us Out: Filing Lawsuits for Science-Based Climate Recovery

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<h2>The Kids Call Us Out: Filing Lawsuits for Science-Based Climate Recovery</h2>
<span>The Kids Call Us Out: Filing Lawsuits for Science-Based Climate Recovery</span> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/hansen_and_sophie.jpg?itok=GtvkYSQK" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_narrow/public/field/image/hansen_and_sophie.jpg?itok=GtvkYSQK" /></a>
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<p>It’s time for everyone who works on climate or cares about it to admit the truth – 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. And we are not. So far, everything we are doing or proposing is falling far short.</p>
<p>Fortunately, the kids are calling us out and making it impossible to ignore the facts. Twenty-one youths filed an Oregon District Court lawsuit last Wednesday seeking a court order “declaring that the Federal Government has violated and is continuing to violate the fundamental constitutional rights of youth and future generations to life, liberty, property, and public trust resources by causing dangerous CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and dangerous government interference with a stable climate system . . .”</p>
<p>That is from <a href="http://ourchildrenstrust.org/sites/default/files/Summary-ConstitutionalClimateChangeLawsuit.pdf" rel="nofollow">the case summary</a> issued by Our Children’s Trust, a Eugene, Oregon-based group leading youth climate legal efforts across the world. That includes state actions in Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Colorado and North Carolina, and proceedings in eight other nations. In one of those, The Netherlands, a judge in June ordered carbon reductions of 25% by 2020, setting a pattern for the world. (Cascadia Planet has covered the Washington lawsuit, and will dive deeper into the legal wrangling between the suit and a carbon cap rule-making ordered by the governor in a coming blog post.)</p>
<p>The youth want the court to order “the Federal Government to protect these constitutional rights by significantly reducing our nation’s CO2 emissions through implementation of a science-based climate recovery plan,” says the summary.</p>
<p>Their demands are uncompromising, and based in science developed by James Hansen and his team. Arguably the world’s leading climate scientist, Hansen’s analysis and projections have proven remarkably accurate. Hansen’s science comes down to the basic physics of atmospheric energy imbalance. Global warming is all about greenhouse gases trapping solar heat as it reflects back from the planet’s surface. We know precisely how much heat will be captured based on the amount of greenhouse gases concentrated in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, the most powerful and long-lasting greenhouse gas, at 400 parts per million catches an excess of 0.6 watts on average for every square meter on the planet’s surface.</p>
<p>Hansen notes this figure in his expert testimony for the lawsuit, adding, “. . . I am uncertain whether this conveys to the Court the scale of what is going on . . . Earth’s energy imbalance is equivalent to exploding more than 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs per day, 365 days per year . . . because of our use of the atmosphere as a waste dump for our carbon pollution.”</p>
<p>For kids 8 to 19 years old, the range of the 21 in the suit, that’s a lot of Hiroshimas coming in their lifetimes. Restoring the balance, stopping those 400,000 nukes from exploding every day for the rest of their lives, requires returning CO2 to 350 parts per million. (That is where the 350.org network gets its name.) Dr. Hansen’s prescription is the 6% solution. We must immediately commence carbon emissions reductions of 6% each year until the end of the century. Timing is crucial. If we wait until 2020 to begin emissions reductions the annual requirement is 15% per year. Along with dramatic emissions reductions we must tip the balance from deforestation to reforestation. We must draw 100 billion tonnes of carbon out of the atmosphere this century, storing it as biocarbon in trees, other plants and soils through changed forestry and agriculture practices.</p>
<p>That is the science-based climate recovery plan that the 21 youths are asking the federal government to implement, based not on any new law but on existing constitutional rights guarantees. Hansen, himself the grandfather of one of the plaintiffs, testified, “this lawsuit is made necessary by the at-best schizophrenic, if not suicidal, nature of U.S. climate and energy policy.”</p>
<p>The Our Children’s Trust summary notes, “For over fifty years, the Federal Government has known that carbon dioxide pollution from burning fossil fuels was causing global warming and dangerous climate change, and that continuing to burn fossil fuels would destabilize the climate system on which present and future generations of our nation depend for their well being and survival. Despite this full knowledge, the Federal Government has allowed and promoted the development and use of fossil fuels, thus increasing the concentration of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere to unsafe levels and creating the dangerous climate change and ocean acidification that we face today.”</p>
<p>President Obama’s recent approval of Arctic drilling by Shell Oil is a poster for schizoid behavior. The lawsuit provides another Oregon-based instance of federal schizophrenia, approval of a liquefied natural gas export terminal at Jordan Cove, and asks a reversal of the permitting.</p>
<p>Hansen’s testimony cites horrendous implications of continuing on the current suicidal pathway. Two in particular stand out. One is the near certainty that if we continue, sea levels will rise 16 to 30 feet, drowning hundreds of coastal cities and creating hundreds of millions of climate refugees. The other is a great extinction – 9 to 31% of species wiped out with total global warming of 1.6° C. That is only 0.7°C over the warming that has already taken place. Half of all species could go extinct with total warming of 2.9°C.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if we implement the 6% solution with 100 billion tonnes of biocarbon storage, we can hold total temperature increase to not much above 1°C, saving untold numbers of species and preventing tremendous amounts of grief for our species. That means our own children and generations to come.</p>
<p>There is really no excuse anymore. Especially not among those who call ourselves climate advocates. To not be pushing for the level of carbon reductions that science clearly indicates is simply another form of climate science denial. It is more insidious than the outright climate denial practiced by fossil fuel industry front groups, because it claims to acknowledge the science when in fact it ignores the full implications.</p>
<p>To continue pushing aside science in the name of political “realism” calls out a phrase invented by journalist I.F. Stone during the Cold War to describe those who thought they could plan a winnable nuclear war. He called them “crackpot realists.” It is similarly crackpot to think we can plot a realistic climate pathway that allows those 400,000 Hiroshimas and more to go off each day for centuries to come. And centuries of global warming beyond 2100 is the implication of climate policies now being considered at state, national and international levels. That goes for plans and goals expected to come out of the upcoming U.N. Paris climate summit, now not even sufficient to hold warming within the scientifically outdated 2°C formerly considered the safety limit.</p>
<p>We are doing nothing less than betraying our kids and their future by not forcefully pressing the 6% solution and the accompanying 100 billion-ton growth in biocarbon that are called for by science. Fortunately, the kids won’t let us alone. They are pressing their fundamental rights in court. They possess both scientific solid ground and the moral high ground. They are the real climate leaders. It is time we join with them to truly protect their future and call for climate recovery plans that are based in science. In good conscience, we can aim for nothing less.</p>
<p><a href="http://cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com.br/2015/08/the-kids-call-us-out-filing-lawsuits.html" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Cascadia Planet</a></p>
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<p>Despite half its population claiming African roots, Brazil's police have been implicated in what rights groups call a genocide against black people.</p>
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<p>The sad truth about Shirin Barghi's #LastWords series is that it may never run out of material.</p>
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<p>Across Europe, debt audits are emerging as a key instrument calling austerity policies into question – from the Greek debt crisis to the Spanish Citizen Debt Audit Platform, to the LOBO loan scandal in U.K. councils.</p>
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<p>Dilma Rousseff faces calls for impeachment and accusations of corruption as demonstrators chant, "We don’t have politicians – we have thieves."</p>
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<p>There has been a surge in homelessness among young people in the U.K., as the real number of homeless is three times higher than the government's "official figures."</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>Crisis equals opportunity, for those who are ready to use it.</p>
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<p>The National Security Agency’s ability to capture Internet traffic on United States soil has been based on an extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: AT&T.</p>
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<p>United Auto Workers have led a push for the AFL-CIO to dissolve its relationship with an international police union.</p>
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<p>Ferguson one year later. Plus, what YOU can do to tell big oil to go f*%@ themselves with a rusty pipe.</p>
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<p>By BI: A year after U.S. airstrikes and Kurdish fighters saved Iraq’s Yazidi population from death at the hands of ISIS atop Mount Sinjar, the historic religious enclave is facing death in its homeland and a cold shoulder from America.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text"><strong>SORRY, America under the Obama Regime only accepts Muslim refugees</strong></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/08/17/yazidi-refugees-flee-isis-but-find-door-to-us-asylum-closed/">FOX News</a></span>  Despite the ongoing threat of execution in Iraq, nearly all Yazidis, a Kurdish monotheistic community that lives throughout Iraq, Syria, Turkey and even Armenia and Georgia, who have applied for asylum in the U.S. have been rejected, FoxNews.com has learned. The reason why is not clear, but advocates say Washington is turning a blind eye on the situation.</p>
<p>“What we are seeing, in real time, is genocide,” said Frank Wolf, a former congressman from Virginia and senior fellow at 21st Century Wilberforce, a nonprofit that seeks to protect Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East. “To declare it genocide, that would expedite relief. You can’t allow it to go on.”</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text"><strong>Blonde-haired, blue-eyed Yazidi girls are being captured, raped, and impregnated by Islamic State savages in order to dilute the ‘white’ gene in them and make them all Muslims</strong></p>
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<p>The Yazidi religion includes elements of ancient nature-worship, as well as influences from Christianity, Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism, Islam and Judaism.</p>
<p>Of the tens of thousands of Yazidis uprooted from their homes, only 10 families have been granted asylum in the U.S., according to Yazda, an American-based Yazidi advocacy group. None of the visas were issued due to religious persecution faced at the hands of ISIS.</p>
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<p>“None of these families [in U.S.] are related to the crisis,” Abid Shamden, who works with Yadza, told FoxNews.com, adding that the visas were given as part of a special program for translators who worked with the U.S. military during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. “But many are still there. They are not given any special status. They are all treated as the same. My family has been waiting since 2012 for visas.”</p>
<p>Shamden’s colleague added that several families who sought help under the translator program have even been denied. Officials for the State Department declined to comment, saying specific cases involving visas are confidential.</p>
<p>Many members of the religious minorities in Iraq and Syria — Yazidi or otherwise — have been seeking asylum in the U.S. since ISIS launched its violent offensive, carving out a caliphate the size of Indiana in northern Syria and Iraq. But the process is arduous, and often fruitless, say experts.</p>
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<p>For  the past six months, 27 Iraqi Christian asylum seekers fleeing the Islamic State (ISIS) have been locked up in an ICE detention center in Otay Mesa, CA, despite the fact that 20 of the 27 Chaldean Christians have American family members living in Southern California who are willing to sponsor them.</p>
<p>At the outset of the Iraq War in 2003, there were nearly 1.4 million Christians in the country. Estimates today say the total is likely fewer than 250,000.</p>
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Burning Man May Be Moving To Utah After State Of Nevada Forces Them Out With New Taxes

<p><a href="http://cdn11.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Lightmatter_burningman.jpg"><img alt="Lightmatter_burningman" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-38644" height="267" src="http://cdn11.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Lightmatter_burningman-400x267.jpg" width="400" /></a>In a recent <a href="http://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/burning-mans-ceo-on-how-edm-and-the-state-of-nevada-are-playa-party-poopers" target="_blank">interview with Vice</a>, Burning Man CEO Marian Goodell suggested that the festival may be moving out of the state of Arizona due to a recent tax that the state has attempted to place on the event.</p>
<p><em>The biggest danger facing Burning Man right now is that the State of Nevada has levied an entertainment tax,”</em> Goodell said, adding that <em>“We still believe that we don’t fit under a form of entertainment. Frankly, we’re not a Las Vegas show. We’re not a car race or a concert in a stadium. </em><em>We’re not able to absorb that. That’s the thing right now that makes us look longingly towards Utah or any other state that might not have levied that.”</em></p>
<p>The new tax could force many events to move out of the state, but for Burning Man, it will be more difficult because the event has been held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada since it moved from San Francisco’s Baker Beach in 1986.</p>
<p>The new tax will not be limited to just Burning Man, either. It will extend to other large festivals like the Electric Daisy Carnival, which moved to Las Vegas after the event was forced out of the Los Angeles Coliseum by the city government a few years ago. Jennifer Forkish, a spokesperson for Insomniac (the company that hosts Electric Daisy Carnival), said that the tax could cause the event to operate at a loss if it were to stay in the state of Nevada.</p>
<p>The new tax is estimated to cost the organizers <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33001485" target="_blank">$2.8 million dollars</a>, and raise the ticket price of the event by 9%.</p>
<p>Jim Graham, a spokesman for the festival, pointed out that Burning Man attendees already bring millions of dollars into the state’s economy <em>and </em>pay a significant amount of taxes purchasing gas, airplane tickets, food, and hotels while traveling to the event.</p>
<p><em>“Burning Man is a non-profit organization that spends more than $11m in Nevada, has vendor contracts with local businesses and is a strong supporter of arts around the state… Burning Man participants contribute more than $40m annually to the Nevada economy – they pay their fair share of sales and gas taxes, and they are tremendously supportive of local businesses.”</em> <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33001485" target="_blank">Graham Said.</a></p>
<p><em>“We certainly understand the Nevada Legislature’s need to identify revenue sources, but we believe this change to the Live Entertainment Tax is misguided,”</em>he added.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jgvibes" target="_blank">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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In a recent interview with Vice , Burning Man CEO Marian Goodell suggested that the festival may be moving out of the state of Arizona due t...