Top Stories from AlterNet for March 13, 2006

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Big Soda's Cancer Connection | Not Your Parents' Protest Music

 

 

 

 

Top Stories from AlterNet for March 13, 2006

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South Dakota banned abortion. Is your state next?

 

This Monday, South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds

signed into law a bill banning abortion. Make no mistake:

this ban is about more than South Dakota -- it's a direct

attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade. Even worse, eleven states

have similar abortion bans waiting in the wings.

 

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HARD TIMES FOR SOFT DRINKS

Michael Blanding, AlterNet

Soda has already been linked with weight gain and cavities;

now the FDA admits that some popular soft drinks could

contain a carcinogen. Will the fizz finally go flat?

http://www.alternet.org/story/33380/

 

 

BARRIERS FOR DISABILITY AT WORK

Catherine Komp, The NewStandard

If accommodating disabled employees costs little and offers

big rewards, is discrimination the reason for their dismal

employment numbers?

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/33341/

 

 

BIGOTRY FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE

Denise Shannon, Conscience Magazine

In the world view of the Religious Right, gay people and

their 'homosexual agenda' have no place.

http://www.alternet.org/story/31941/

 

 

NOT YOUR PARENTS' PROTEST MUSIC

Naeem Mohaiemen, AlterNet

The burgeoning politi-punk band Outernational discusses what

it means to be revolutionary.

http://www.alternet.org/story/33245/

 

 

ENVIRONMENTALISM'S SHADOW HISTORY

Matthew Klingle, Joseph E. Taylor III, Grist Magazine

Who were the people behind the original conservation and

preservation movements?

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/33303/

 

 

 

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Fresh in the Mix:

 

Jan Frel: Conservative moralists are quiet -- now -- about Claude

Allen, the felon shoplifter who was one of Bush's top domestic policy

advisors. But they sure praised him in the past...

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/33439

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