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The Patriot's Guide to Legalization

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kevin Drum - Jul. 06 (Opinion) - Maybe the war against pot is about to get a lot uglier. After all, in the 1920s, Prohibition gave us Al Capone and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and that was over plain old whiskey and rum. Are we about to start paying the same price for marijuana?

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Mexico: Water Shortages Affecting Nearly 2 Million Residents

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Issa Villarreal - Jun. 22 (Opinion) - Nearly two million citizens have been affected by the recent reduction of water services in the Valley of Mexico. According to Mexican Newspaper El Universal [es], the Cutzamala System, which manages 20% of the drinking water for the valley, is not working at full capacity and cannot supply its own region: 10 districts from the Federal District and 13 municipalities from State of Mexico.

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Stop Subsidizing Mexican Drug Gangs

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Bruce Mirken - Mar. 23 (Opinion) - Like it or not, marijuana is a massive industry. Some 100 million Americans admit to government survey-takers that they've used it, with nearly 15 million acknowledging use in the past month. That's a huge market -- more Americans than will buy a new car or truck this year, or that bought one last year. Estimates based on U.S. government figures have pegged marijuana as the number one cash crop in America, with a value exceeding corn and wheat combined.

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Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

prisonradio.org - By Mumia Abu-Jamal - Feb. 26 (Comment) - (Audio file link)

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All-American Canal, California-Mexico border

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

NASA - By NASA Earth Observatory - Feb. 23 (Statement) - The All-American Canal, the largest irrigation canal in the world and a key landmark along the U.S.-Mexico border, shows up in this astronaut photograph. This image captures about 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) of the important infrastructure corridor just west of Yuma, Arizona. The prominent dark line crossing the image is the Canal, which is crossed in this view by Interstate Highway 8. The canal carries 740.6 cubic meters (26,155 cubic feet) of water per second westward from the Colorado River to support the intensive agriculture of California’s Imperial Valley to the northwest and nine cities, including San Diego. The canal system is the Imperial Valley’s only source of water, and it allows irrigation of more than 2,000 square kilometers (500,000 acres) of agricultural fields. The Coachella Canal, one of four main branch canals, leads water north to Imperial Valley.

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Ashoka Mexico: Challenging the norm

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

A Developed World - By Karina Weinstein - Jan. 03 (Press Release) - The passion and creativity of Mexican social enterpreneurs usually comes at the price of being at odds with social sentiments. The idea of social entrepreneurship is not understood or accepted in Mexico and tends to be associated more closely with conventional for-profit ventures. As such, social entreprenuers are constantly scrutinized for their choice of dedicating their professional life to develop a business to solve a pertinent social problem. At Ashoka, however, these "crazy" changemakers are not alone.

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