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March 13, 2015

End of Refinery Strike in Sight; Gas Prices May Fall

Tiffany Hsu Los Angeles Times

The United Steelworkers (USW) announced today that it has reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract with Shell Oil as a pattern agreement for the rest of the industry.

March 13, 2015

Dr. Cheryl Chastine of South Wind Women’s Center Talks Reproductive Justice and Not Backing Down

Renee Bracey Sherman Rewire

Dr. Cheryl Chastine represents the future of abortion care; she infuses reproductive justice values and transgender patient care into her practice. She has given up a lot, personally and professionally, to provide care to her patients, but she refuses to back down due to threats or intimidation. She fights back by providing the best possible care to her patients.

March 13, 2015

Wind Could Power 35 Percent of U.S. Electricity by 2050

Bobby Magill Climate Central

That would be enough electricity to power nearly 100 million homes. As wind grows, investments in wind energy would reach as much as $70 billion annually by 2050, according to a new report, at which point the industry would support 600,000 jobs.

March 13, 2015

Republicans want to stop a nuclear deal with Iran. They may have ensured Obama gets one

Ali Gharib The Guardian

Sending a letter to Iranian leadership warning them that conservatives will try to kill any deal Obama negotiates may not have had the effect Tom Cotton and colleagues wanted

March 13, 2015

But Is Hillary Ready for Us?

William Greider The Nation

A profound crisis of identity burdens the Democratic Party. What does the party really believe? Whose interests will the nominee truly fight for? Democrats lost their old soul long ago. The 2016 election could become the decisive moment that either transforms the party with an aggressively liberal economic agenda or clings to the past and the “corporate-friendly” straddle devised a generation ago by Bill Clinton’s New Democrats.

Netanyahu Remix: Sit! Stand! Iran, Iran, Iran!

March 13, 2015

Bibi’s Congress speech remixed by Noy Alooshe. Alooshe is an Israeli journalist and musician of Jewish-Tunisian descent.

Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief

March 13, 2015

Alex Gibney's documentary film (from HBO) casts a scathing eye on "the religion of the stars," which claims such prominent members as John Travolta and Tom Cruise. Gibney digs into the roots of Scientology's creation by scifi writer L. Ron Hubbard and recounts many reports of abusive Church practices.