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Operator? Get Me Jesus On the Line

The first-ever sacred pre-paid phone card series is available from Siesta Telecom Inc. 

Eight Pretty Bad Corporations

Aventis CropScience. Put genetically altered and EPA unapproved "Star Link" corn in Taco Bell brand taco shells; at least 44 people became ill.

Sex in the City (and the suburbs)

There is a new ad campaign hitting the national media called "Sex Has Consequences." 

Defining Moment

Nike now lets you personalize your shoes by submitting a word or phrase the company will stitch beneath the swoosh.

Attitudes and Latitudes

Poll by the Program on International Policy Attitudes

 

News Bites

During the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, the Swiss border patrol prevented Naomi Klein's anti-corporate bestseller No Logo from entering the country. Apparently those little ca

 

Great Scot!

Hours after the Scottish Royal Navy announced that its fourth Trident nuclear-armed submarine—the HMS Vengeance—had entered service, 373 protesters were arrested in the largest-ever dem

Computers are the key to the future. Or not.

"Computer science is the best instrument of history to release man's creativity...

No Longer a Bleeding-Heart Issue

by Susannah Hunter 03-01-2001
The moratorium movement is changing the politics of death.

Building Supplies

The YouthPeace organizing packet has graphics, media information, literature lists, and training, workshop, and organizing ideas for local youth activists.

Let Them Eat Grapes

The United Farm Workers union has called off its 16-year boycott of California table grapes, citing recent organizing and contract victories as the reason.

News Bites

April 23-29 is national "Turn off Your TV" week. Coincidentally, it is also "Roll Back the Rug and Teach the Kids the Electric Slide" week.

What do you get for a planet that has everything?

The Alliance of Religions and Conservation and the World Wildlife Fund brought together 11 major faiths-representing some 4 billion people-to ask that very question.

Cuppa Joy?

John Sage is low-key in approach and evangelistic in mission: Save the world through coffee. Can't be done, you say?

Can't Buy Me Love

54 percent of global billionaires are in the United States

Peace Prize or Gas Chamber

Convicted murderer and gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams has been nominated for the 2001 Nobel Prize for Peace.

A Crack in the Glass Ceiling

The Church of Pakistan has ordained its first two women deacons, despite civil court action by a breakaway church that believes the Bible bans women from the clergy.

Soldiering on in Bean Town

According to the United Nations, one child in four lives in an unstable, often violent, environment. The World Council of Churches is determined to change those statistics-one city at a time.

A Righteous Light

Jennifer Harbury's eight-year fight for justice in the death of her husband, Guatemalan resistance leader Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, has ended in victory.

You want salsa with that Mujerista?

Mujerista may not be a familiar term yet, but theologians and others are starting to pay more attention to the voices of Latinas in this country and elsewhere