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Credit Card options and information

I recently tried to find a credit card that 1) offered decent terms 2) Had some sort of meaningful rewards program and 3) was not issued through a national megabank with questionable values, like Bank of America. Most of the time I could only score 2 ...

From BRIAN THE GREEN, Portland Indymedia,  19 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Bank of America,  Merrill Lynch,  Citigroup,  Morgan Stanley,  U.S. Republican Party

PLUNDER, the movie. World Premier tonight in Portland - FREE

First Unitarian Church in Portland is hosting the world premier screening of this film at 7pm tonight. Admission is free. This is part of the EcoNvergence conference going on this weekend with keynotes by Noam Chomsky (Friday) and Derrick Jensen ...

From BRIAN THE GREEN, Portland Indymedia,  1 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Noam Chomsky

Opt-Out of Military Recruiting - High School kids

OPT-OUT CAMPAIGN: Under the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, schools receiving federal funds MUST release students' personal information to military recruiters if they are to continue to receive federal funds. Objective: To get as many ...

From BRIAN THE GREEN, Portland Indymedia,  20 Aug 2009

Questions, Not Answers, Make Science the Ultimate Adventure

Were some superadvanced alien civilization to swoop down to Earth with the definitive explanation of everything in the cosmos, there'd be excitement at first—it would be thrilling to have answers to questions we've tussled with through the ages. But in ...

From BRIAN GREENE, Wired,  29 Apr 2009

Grant High School Auction

Grant HS is hosting their Booster Club's major fundraiser on Saturday, October 25th, and they need help. With a downturn in the economy it seems that schools, kids and the needy will be the hardest hit. Last year this event was a sellout and they ...

From BRIAN THE GREEN, Portland Indymedia,  17 Oct 2008

Military recruiting Opt-Out deadline

School districts are required to provide the name and address of all junior & senior students to military recruiters, unless the parent or student informs the school that they do not want that information provided to recruiters. Students can make ...

From BRIAN THE GREEN, Portland Indymedia,  16 Oct 2008

Two Party Debates

How many people realize that the two major parties control the debates: pick the locations, set the rules, select the moderators, and determines which candidates participate? The Presidential Debate Commission (PDC) is also exclusively funded by 11 ...

From BRIAN THE GREEN, Portland Indymedia,  26 Sep 2008
Related Topics: League of Women Voters,  Ross Perot,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Green Party

The Death Penalty

I was just reading Amy Goodman's story about Troy Davis and his death row situation ( http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/25-9). She quoted Georgia Congressman John Lewis who discussing racism and the death penalty said this when Amy pointed out ...

From BRIAN THE GREEN, Portland Indymedia,  26 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Amy Goodman,  Barack Obama,  John McCain,  Cynthia McKinney

Jolie-Pitt Foundation Establishes HIV/AIDS Clinic in Ethiopia

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Photo by: Kevin Winter / Getty Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's Jolie-Pitt Foundation has made a $2 million donation to the Global Health Committee to establish a center to aid children affected by tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS ...

From BRIAN ORLOFF AND MARY GREEN, People,  13 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Angelina Jolie,  Brad Pitt

Why we shouldn't fear the collider

Three hundred feet below the outskirts of Geneva lies part of a 17-mile-long tubular track, circling its way across the French border and back again, whose interior is so pristine and whose nearly 10,000 surrounding magnets so frigid, that it's one of ...

From BRIAN GREENE, International Herald Tribune,  12 Sep 2008

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