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We are excited to announce the launch of our new site, the ProgressiveKid Reader, a thematic online experience for progressive kids, parents, and teachers. We’re migrating everything from On a Ledge to the Reader where you can expect the same quality writing and deep thinking with the added benefits of more top-notch contributors including professionals [...]

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Clean Coal’s Dirty Little Secret

The mining process generates liquid waste called slurry, a mix of carcinogenic compounds and heavy metals. The slurry is stored in open lagoons that, of course, sometimes break and flood. This is even more likely during periods of heavy rainfall and flooding (such as during global warming).

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• Canada's commercial seal hunt begins in a few weeks. The hunt takes place in the seal birthing grounds. The victims are as young as three weeks old. Some are skinned alive. Others are clubbed to death. Some are dragged still living by metal hooks onto boats. If you want to live with yourself, take action now to stop the clubbing. #
• President Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Equal pay for equal work. Why did Reagan Bush, and Candidate McCain oppose it? According to Mom's Rising women today sans kids make 90 cents to a man's dollar, moms make 73, and single moms make only 60. #
• Obama saves the wolves, closes Guantanamo, and restores respect for the Geneva Conventions. #
• Who is coming to your party? Including people of different backgrounds, nationalities, beliefs, races, ethnicities, biologies, and ideas shows an openness to diversity. Including people who advocate the oppression of those who are different shows an openness to bigotry. #
• Bush is killing wolves again. #