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Public meeting: Mona El Farra discusses public health in Gaza. 22.5.2013 Green Left Weekly issue #780

Dr Mona El Farra is a physician now working as a public health advocate in Gaza. Her particular focus is on women and children. 6pm. RMIT, Building 80, Swanston St, Level 2, Room 7. Sponsored by the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network & Australians for Palestine. For more info ph Michael Shaik 0431 573 368.

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Thu, 30/05/2013 - 6:00pm
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Michael Shaik 0431 573 368
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Public meeting: Health in Gaza today with Mona el Farra. 22.5.2013 Green Left Weekly issue #780

Friday, May 31

MAPW will host a breakfast where Dr el Farra will address the health situation in Gaza. 8am. Travellers Bookstore, 294 Smith St, Collingwood (doors open from 7:45am). Please RSVP to MAPW.

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Fri, 31/05/2013 - 8:00am
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Many Insurance Payments Won't Cut It After Oklahoma Disaster 22.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
As people in central Oklahoma emerge from the wreckage of the tornado that flattened entire neighborhoods, some will face another bitter realization: Residents of Moore...
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LOOK: The Deadliest States For Tornadoes 22.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Recent extreme weather events seem to reach into unlikely corners of the U.S., but the massive tornado that devastated Moore, Okla., on Monday tore right...
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Climate Change-Related Heat Deaths To Spike In New York City, Study Projects 21.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
From Climate Central's Andrew Freedman: An increasing number of New Yorkers are likely to die from heat-related causes as global warming causes more extreme heat...
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Finalize Tier 3 Tailpipe Standards -- For Our Kids, Our Health, and Our Future 21.5.2013 TreeHugger
New vehicle emission and fuel standards proposed by the EPa will reduce pollution, save gas, protect public health, and create jobs.
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Development of Land Use Regression Models for Particle Composition in Twenty Study Areas in Europe (Cached) 20.5.2013 pubs.acs.org

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DOI: 10.1021/es400156t
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Maria Rodale: Welcome to Rodale's 20.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Hello, wonderful! Thank you for finding us and joining us on our journey to make the world better (and your life healthier). Big claim,...
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Recent Climate Study Reveals Good And Bad News 20.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
OSLO, May 19 (Reuters) - Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises so far...
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Living Close To Major Road Could Be Bad For Your Kidneys 18.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
People who live close to a major road may have less healthy kidneys than people who live farther away, according to a new study. Researchers...
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Congressional Hearing Seeks to Prevent Health Safeguard 18.5.2013 Commondreams.org Newswire

U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy is holding a hearing today to review a bill that would eliminate any requirement to update federal waste disposal regulations, including regulations that are long overdue for coal ash, one of the largest industrial waste streams in the country.

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Obama Tries Hard To Change The Subject 17.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
By Mark Felsenthal and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday will seek to turn the spotlight from controversies threatening...
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More Than Half Of Public Pools Contaminated By Poop Bacteria 17.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
There's a lot of grossness going on in public pools. A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows that more than half of...
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Obama's EPA Pick Advances 16.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, sending the...
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Electric Utilities Top List of U.S. Toxic Water Polluters
 16.5.2013 Commondreams.org Newswire

The Ohio Valley Electric Corporation, Ferro Corporation, American Electric Power, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Southern Company top the list of the most hazardous polluters of U.S. surface water, according to a report released today by the national consumer advocacy organization Food & Water Watch and the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (PERI).

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What's up with mental health in WA? 16.5.2013 Green Left Weekly issue #780
In its last term, the Barnett government introduced legislation that would curtail the rights of people with mental illness. This forum will discuss these proposals and the conditions facing people with mental illness and the services meant to support them, in WA. Speakers Sandra Boulter (Mental Health Law Centre (WA)), Sinead (Perth Inner City Youth Service), Nicole (Socialist Alliance), Sanna Andrew (Socialist Alliance, community mental health worker). Activist Centre, 15/5 Aberdeen St, Perth (next to McIver train station). Organised by Socialist Alliance Perth. Ph 9218 9608. Event date: Wed, 12/06/2013 - 6:00pm Event time: Sat, 12/01/2013 - 6:00pm Email: Phone: 08 9218 ...
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Adrianna Quintero: Latinos Agree: Time for President Obama to Cut Carbon Pollution From Power Plants 15.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Climate change -- and the hotter temperatures that come with it -- only make smog worse. For children, the elderly, outdoor workers, and those without health insurance in the Hispanic community, these conditions can be deadly.
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Game Theory and the Treatment of Cancer 14.5.2013 Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories

Thinking about cancer as an ecosystem is giving biologists access to a new armoury of mathematical tools for tackling it, such as evolutionary game theory



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West Nile Deaths Hit Record High Last Year 14.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
NEW YORK — U.S. health officials say last year was the worst ever for West Nile virus deaths. The final tally reported Monday was 286...
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Joanne Spataro: Dr. Jill Stein Gets Personal: How a Health Scare Got Her Into Politics (VIDEO) 14.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Stein made a full recovery, but she was never the same when it came to how she wanted to run her life. She transitioned from trying to make change as a non-partisan educator and physician to a full-fledged advocate. Ten years later, she entered politics with the Green Party.
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