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"The scars of our past have not healed. The legacy of our violent history is still with us, embedded in our culture. It entertains us, it drives many aspects of our capitalistic economy, and it affects our day-to-day interactions with one another. Rather than pretending this is not the case, we must acknowledge this legacy in order to effectively deal with it." - Ven. Kobutsu Malone, from "Bodhisattva as Revolutionary"
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I'm a citizen journalist covering Maine as part of MTV's "2008 Choose or Lose Street Team." Over the course of the next year, I hope give faces to many of the issues at the heart of the upcoming election, removing public policy debates from the realm of statistics and sound bites. I want to tell stories that will inform and, hopefully, inspire action. Maybe I'll even tell yours ...

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No, I'm not talking X and Y chromosomes -- I'm talking Generations. A handful of us Street Team '08 members are proud members of Generation X (very roughly,...
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by  shelbinator on december 18, 2007
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Joined: 10/8/2007
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Maine's Friendly Neighborhood Defen...
Bath Iron Works - one of Maine's largest private companies, with more than 5,000 employees - recently christened the USS Stockdale, the 30th Aegis guided missile destroyer the shipyard has produced. Comments from protestors and politicians illustrate what's so "complex" about the "military industria...
Tags: protest  election  peace  Street Team '08  Maine  Aegis destroyer  ... 
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To Pay or Not to Pay? Tax Resistanc...
The deadline to file a federal income tax return passed three weeks ago, and Larry Dansinger, a self-employed Mainer, hasn’t sent the U.S. government a single penny. In fact, he hasn’t paid taxes in more than 30 years.

 

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