Peace & Justice News is a collection of news items collected by Bloomington Alternative contributor Linda Greene. Today's edition includes:

• Hungry and homeless college students
• Outer space adventures for the super-rich
• School suspensions of African-American students
• Justice for DHL workers in Turkey
• Janitors demonstrate for health care benefits and wages
• Scandinavian ship to challenge Israel’s Gaza blockade
• The fight over labeling genetically modified foods
• Perils of the for-profit higher-education industry

The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene. This week's edition includes:

• Great Lakes action on nuclear reactor risks
• Activists halt operations at mountaintop removal coal mine
• Dow requests approval for GE soy resistant to 2,4-D
• EPA stalling on bee die-offs
• Pennsylvania to shut down one of biggest U.S. coal ash ponds
• Establishment of the Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge
• U.S. clean-up of Agent Orange-contaminated Vietnam
• Hazards of “green” household cleaners
• Nigerian oil spill near Exxon operations
• Ukrainian environmentalist murdered

Though the U.S. contains less than 5 percent of the world’s population, it confines nearly 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Furthermore, as of 2008 it had 2.3 million in jails and prisons, according to the International Center for Prison Studies at King’s College, London.

Reducing the population in the Monroe County jail is the goal of a local, grassroots organization, Decarcerate Monroe County (DMC). In its own words, DMC “is a local coalition challenging the belief that cages, coercion and confinement keep our community safe. DMC believes people are safe when they have their basic needs met and when they feel empowered and free.”

Peace & Justice News is a collection of news items collected by Bloomington Alternative contributor Linda Greene. Today's edition includes:

• Global education strike planned for the fall
• Surveillance of citizens with automatic license plate recognition cameras
• Drone use inside the United States
• Feminist punk band Pussy Riot on trial in Russia
• Pfizer bribing foreign physicians to hike sales
• Cutting funding for nuclear weapons
• Cuba lifts ban on anti-Castro musicians on the radio
• Women farm workers win sexual harassment case
• British workers in solidarity with trade unionists in Turkey
• Expulsion from school for pregnancy

The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene. This week's edition includes:

• ArcelorMittal agrees to clean up contaminated Lake Michigan site
• Latinos’ attitudes toward the environment
• Rainforest havens at risk
• Fracking: who’s in control?
• Texans poisoned by oil and gas facilities
• Utilities spend millions on attacking EPA action while deaths accumulate
• Murder of environmental activists
• Oil company threatens 284 remaining beluga whales
• Oil dispersants disrupt the ocean food chain

Peace & Justice News is a collection of news items collected by Bloomington Alternative contributor Linda Greene. Today's edition includes:

• Indiana’s Camp Atterbury one of 64 U.S. drone bases
• Vote for Hyatt as the country’s worst hotel employer
• Congressional opponents of women’s health attacking again
• Happy 50^th to Walmart
• Global elite evades taxes to the tune of $21 trillion
• Most minimum-wage workers at large, profitable companies
• New Israeli ship operates without people on board
• Petition demanding troop withdrawal from Afghanistan now
• Judge prevents closure of Mississippi’s last abortion clinic
• Activist arrested near White House for protesting hemp ban

In his state of the city address on Feb. 16, 2010, Bill Schmitt, mayor of the southern Indiana city of Jasper, addressed the topic of what to do with the city’s idle coal-fired power plant. One option, he said, according to the Dubois County Herald, would be to convert the plant to a “green-energy-producing facility.”

Little did anyone realize at the time that his comment would turn out to be an early salvo in what has become a bitter, protracted battle between the people of Jasper and their local government.

The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene. This week's edition includes:

• Push for high-speed rail in Indiana
• Earth First! temporarily halts fracking operation
• Fossil fuels draining water supply in middle of drought
• Four environmental victories in two weeks
• Victory for baby sea turtles in Puerto Rico
• Critical fight to save Alaska’s Bristol Bay wilderness
• Problem at California nuclear power plant is worse than originally thought
• Dirty Dozen, Clean 15 produce
• Big polluters opposing EPA’s regulations on soot
• Bureau of Land Management to safeguard public lands from fracking, with public pressure

Peace & Justice News is a collection of news items collected by Bloomington Alternative contributor Linda Greene. Today's edition includes:

• 2012 likely to be journalists’ deadliest year so far
• Protestors charged with third-degree riot for defending house from foreclosure
• Aid for Haitian earthquake victims goes to build hotels
• Facts about inequality in the U.S.
• Community-labor alliance spurs unionization effort
• War Resister confined to sanctuary of Canadian church
• Military recruiting troops through motorsports marketing
• Texas Wal-Mart becomes nation’s largest single-story library
• Chinese Apple workers undergoing superexploitation
• Torture in CIA 'black site' secret prison in Poland

The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene. This week's edition includes:

• Help stop a coal-to-gas plant in Rockport, Indiana
• Council of Canadians calls on provinces to ban fracking
• NAACP joins lawsuit to defend mercury and air toxics standards
• Navy testing, training exercises a dire threat to marine life
• Germany to close all nuclear reactors by 2022
• Murders of environmental activists on the rise
• Drilling for oil in the Arctic
• Exxon Mobil project for Rocky Mountains defeated
• Indigenous people in Malaysian Borneo fight proposed dam
• Toxic liquid pour into the earth poisons groundwater