Roots of Compassion

Rodney Coronado was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison last thursday. He pleaded guilty in December to a charge of demonstrating how to make a destructive device with the intent that someone would commit arson from a speech Coronado made Aug. 1, 2003 in Hillcrest.
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The BBC reports that Rheumatoid arthritis patients may be able to reduce their high risk of heart attacks and strokes with a gluten-free, vegan diet, a study by the Arthritis Research Campaign suggests.
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Novartis is a Swiss-based pharmaceutical company with offices all over the world. Novartis was created in 1996 through the merger of pharmaceutical giants Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz. Their headquarters is in Basel, Switzerland. This company (http://www.novartis.com) is one of the biggest customers of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), as well as of Covance; both of these companies […]

This is a statement from their myspace page:
Strong Hearts Baking Company is an all vegan business - providing 100% cruelty free baked goods made by vegans. We put only the finest ingredients into our products, using certified organic and fair trade ingredients whenever possible. At Strong Hearts we hope that our cupcakes, cookies, doughnuts, and […]

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Expect Resistance is not one but three books, each of which may be read as a complete work unto itself. The first book, printed in standard black ink, continues the inquiry into modern life and its discontents begun in Days of War, Nights of Love. Just as that book included improved versions of […]

Expect Resistance is not one but three books, each of which may be read as a complete work unto itself. The first book, printed in standard black ink, continues the inquiry into modern life and its discontents begun in Days of War, Nights of Love. Just as that book included improved versions of texts originally […]

big news! in about two days we’ll start with the production of our first feature documentary! yep. the edge project is a documentary of the past and present of straight edge in the US.
“26 years after minor threat released the song ’straight edge’, the idea of a drugfree lifestyle has become a vital form of […]

we have a new clothing supplier! we’ve decided that american apparel does not meet our standards anymore. we don’t like their sexist ads with women being objectified plus - reports from knowmore.org and clamor magazine reveiled that AA is hostile to employees organizing for job security and against the speed of work and layoffs. when […]

a new global anti-fur campaign against the escada designer group is being kicked off with a weekend of action from the 12th through the 14th of october. the campaign operating under the banner of the global network against the fur industry and is calling for demos to take place at any shop or office in […]

Every September 22, people across the globe get together to swear off their cars - if only for one day - in a collective reminder that we don’t have to accept car-dominated societies, cities, or personal lives. Since its earliest incarnations in the 1970s and ’80s, WORLD CAR-FREE DAY has grown into a massive global […]