health
Audio: Demanding food safety, Houston protests GMOs
June 4, 2013Houstonians join food safety advocates around the world to demonstrate against a biotech giant they say may be poisoning us all.
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Judge OKs Patriot Coal plan to renege on miners’ pensions
June 3, 2013A federal bankruptcy judge in St. Louis has left Patriot Coal's retirees - whom it inherited from Peabody Energy and Arch Coal - high and dry, and said Patriot could dump its union contracts, too.
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President Obama hosts event aimed at reducing mental health stigma
June 3, 2013President Barack Obama called for a more robust national discussion on mental illness, saying the time had come to bring the issue "out of the shadows."
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South Dakota commits shocking genocide against Native Americans
June 3, 2013Without consent or authority, South Dakota officials remove American Indian children from their families and place them in the foster care system, in violation of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
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Florida rally says: “Buzz off, Monsanto”
May 31, 2013Central Floridians turned out or the March Against Monsanto targeting the biotechnology mega-corporation and its role in the propagation of genetically modified seeds.
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