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GE and water privatization

Investment banker Goldman Sachs has famously been described by Rolling Stone's business writer Matt Taibbi (July 2009) as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." So it's a good idea to take notice whenever that Vampire Squid moves its blood funnel towards something. Having profited handsomely from the Wall Street bailouts, the Squid has smelled money in a new direction: water privatization.

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'No Fracking Way'

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| This was the title of a recent educational forum in Vancouver. Redeye contacted researcher Ben Parfitt to find out what fracking is and why we should oppose this kind of natural gas extraction.

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Tracking the Tar Sands: A Tri-City Youth Tour

Tracking the Tar Sands: A Tri-City Youth Tour
Aug 20 2009 - 11:50am
Aug 22 2009 - 11:50am

Location

Sarnia, ON
Canada
Phone: (866) 346-6602 ext. 106
Fax: (613) 237-3359
42° 58' 43.8636" N, 82° 24' 14.2056" W

Who: YOU

What: Tracking the Tar Sands: A Tri-City Youth Tour—An educational youth tour to Sarnia, Detroit and Windsor that highlights global warming, water depletion, land degradation, energy insecurity, Aboriginal injustices and social damages from tar sands development. You will have the opportunity to meet with community leaders and youth from across Canada and Detroit who are ready to make a difference now and for the future.

When: August 20 to 22, 2009

Where: Starting in Toronto on August 20th and traveling to Sarnia, Detroit and Windsor. Returning to Toronto the evening of August 22.

Contact name: 
Iona Frost
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