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July 5, 2014

“Individual Actions Are Doomed to Failure”: Coalition Asks for Global Action on Antibiotics

Maryn McKenna Wired

The increase in antibiotic resistant bacteria poses a major healthcare threat. In the face of an almost complete absence of new antimicrobial drugs in development, antibiotic resistance (ABR) has become one of the main public health problems of our time.

July 5, 2014

Mapping Militarism

David Swanson Op Ed News

World Beyond War has created a set of online interactive maps to help us all see where and how war and preparations for war exist in the world today.

July 5, 2014

Shifting Tactics, Moral Monday Movement Launches a New Freedom Summer

Barry Yeoman The American Prospect

Fifty years after the murders of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman, North Carolina activists move from civil disobedience to big voter mobilization push.

July 5, 2014

Full Employment and the Path to Shared Prosperity

Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein Dissent Magazine

If high unemployment is one of the obstacles to more equitable growth, then the question is: how do we achieve full employment? There are four main ways. Each route faces substantial political opposition, both because of powerful interests that would be hurt by paying higher wages and because of popular prejudices that are persistently promoted in the media.

July 5, 2014

Free Goyo! No Conga Mine in Peru!

Alliance for Global Justice Statement Alliance for Global Justice

Alliance for Global Justice Statement on the Detention of Gregorio “Goyo” Santos, President of the Region of Cajamarca, Peru

Pete Seeger: The Star Spangled Banner

July 5, 2014

Pete Seeger recites a poem on the American Flag and gives the history of the National Anthem of the United States at Smithsonian Folkways' Ralph Rinzler memorial in New Market, Tennessee in 1995. The "Star Spangled Banner", features lyrics by Francis Scott Key set to the tune of a popular British drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven" written by John Stafford Smith. More.

July 4, 2014

Friday Nite Videos -- July 4, 2014 (Five songs for the Fourth)

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Country Joe: Cakewalk to Baghdad. Los Lobos: One Time, One Night. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son. BB King: We're Gonna Make It. Pete Seeger: The Star Spangled Banner.