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  • This is our September round-up in case you missed some of our posts. If you like our unique mix of news and opinions, follow us on Twitter/VenusPlusX, and like our page, Facebook/VenusPlusX. We kept up with many of our key issues with a discussion of how and why police bias is the chief cause of…

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  • Salutes!

    Quick salute to record 400,000 People’s Climate Marchers who turned out, yesterday. More about that, tomorrow, with an Op-Ed on what’s gone down today in Lower Manhattan many of these activists showed up to Flood Wall Street calling for corporate environmental responsibility. Naysayers who think that big marches don’t bring about real change fail to…

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  • . . . [T]he largest rally for an environmental cause in US history is happening this Sunday, September 21, in Manhattan. More than 100,000 people are planning to join a historic march for climate action two days before President Obama and world leaders attend a Climate Summit at the United Nations. (The Nation’s “The People’s…

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  • UN Human Rights Council Adopts Non-Inclusive Protection of the Family Resolution “It should not be up to an accidental majority of states to define what does and what does not constitute a family. I urge all states to respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of all individual members belonging to all different types of…

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  • (También en Español) News of Note: U.N. summit focuses on how to improve global happiness The United Nations turned its attention to happiness — and just how it might be achieved on an international scale. “Conscious that the pursuit of happiness is a fundamental human goal” and “recognizing that the gross domestic product … does…

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