What’s new on the Website?
Note that this page lists significant updates to the various sections of the website, but does not normally mention changes to the home page or to the blogs, directory, or events calendar, which are featured on the sidebar to the right.
May 14 2012 – Added Environmental Advisory Statement on the planned waste incinerator in Allentown, from the City’s Environmental Advisory Council.
April 29 2012 – Added a Focus On… page with resources related to developing and benefits of a Local Food Economy.
April 28 2012 – Added information on endocrine disruptors—the other major threat to sustainability & survival.
April17 2012 – Updated information on the trash incinerator planned for Allentown.
April 8 2012 – Added information on the 9th annual Social Research | Social Justice conference!
March 3 2012 – Added Action Alert for Allentown incinerator project. ACT TODAY—the vote is scheduled for Wednesday, March 7!
February 26 2012 – Added notice of summer internship project.
January 24 2012 – Updated the article on Big Changes to the Fair Trade System to reflect an improvement in Fair Trade USA standards.
January 20 2012 – Added Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final speech, delivered in Memphis, TN, the night before he was assassinated. ['I Have Been to the Mountaintop']
January 14 2012 – Added The Bitter Truth [Focus On… page], featuring several short BBC segments on child slavery in the chocolate trade, in which both Hershey’s and M&M Mars have been implicated, plus a link to the documentary ‘The Dark Side of Chocolate’.
January 8 2012 – Added a call to support authentic fair trade [Focus On… page].
January 6 2012 – Added text of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s talk titled ‘Breaking the Silence’ [Focus On… page].
December 28 2011 – Added important information on big changes to the Fair Trade system! [Focus On… page]
December 23 2011 – Added 3 internship opportunities with the Nourishing the planet project.
December 7 2011 – Added Julia Ward’s poster on high levels of Diesel pollution in the Lehigh Valley and Idling Gets You Nowhere, on the need to stop vehicle idling.
November 21 2011 – Added Greg Palast’s article explaining how our Wall Street friends caused Greece’s bankruptcy/’debt crisis’.
November 9 2011 – Added the ‘Corporate Pledge of Allegiance‘ published by Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor.
November 5 2011 – Added the Youth Food Bill of Rights, adopted by the Rooted in Community Leadership Summit, July 2010.
October 21 2011 – Added an Occupy Lehigh Valley page with links to the individual movements’ web pages.
October 14 2011 – Posted ‘10 Ways to Support the Occupy Movement‘ by Sarah Van Gelder of Yes! Magazine
October 12 2011 – Posted Robert Reich’s video & text debunking The Seven Biggest Economic Lies now being told by those who want to take America backwards.
October 8 2011 – Added Malalai Joya’s plea to remove all military troops from Afghanistan.
October 3 2011 – OccupyWallStreet call for action – Added a page with information and links to OccupyWallStreet and a brief report on this movement that is now spreading to cities around the country, with a few links so you can keep up to date.