biofuel
FSTV Newswire July 12th, 2011: CALL TO PROSECUTE BUSH FOR TORTURE & ANONYMOUS HITS US MILITARY CONTRACTOR
Human Rights Watch, a group based in New York, is calling on foreign governments to prosecute George W. Bush for war crimes. The group has accused the Bush administration of engaging in torture and other violations of international law. Anonymous, the international cyberactivist network, has completed one of its biggest hacking operations ever. The group announced the release of 90,000 military email logins that were obtained when the group hacked in to the database of a Virginia based firm. Scientists on an algae farm in the Netherlands are working to advance biofuel technology.
Email this pageGRITtv: Spelling Sustainability: Brower Youth Awards
The Earth Island Institute created the annual Brower Youth Awards to honor six young people for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and social justice advocacy. Each winner is awarded $3000 and brought to San Francisco for the award week and a backcountry camping trip. Adarsha Shivakumar used his proceeds from winning a spelling bee to co-found a project growing sustainable jatropha, a plant that can be used as biofuel, in India. His work provides an ecologically friendly and economically profitable crop for farmers who would otherwise grow tobacco, a much more harmful plant. This video from Rikshaw Films shows the impact Shivakumar and his project have had around the world.
GRITtv: Nov. 19, 2009
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was recently stripped of his federal authority to make immigration arrests after repeated complaints that he abuses power and uses racial profiling to target Latinos in his Arizona community. Salvador Reza, U.S. Air Force veteran, community organizer and renowned immigrants rights activist, joins Laura for an exclusive interview on Arpaio's ongoing abuses. Dennis Gilman brings us video footage from an Arpaio raid and from protests in Arizona, where white supremacist groups showed up to support Arpaio's policies. The National Book Awards were announced this week; Colum McCann was honored for his fiction work "Let the Great World Spin: A Novel," and T.J. Stiles' biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt won the nonfiction prize.
