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Opinion: Got Electricity? You Might Be Plugging into a Crime

By Jeff BiggersSep 27th 2010 – 6:33AM

(Sept. 27) -- When you flick on your light switch in 48 states across the nation, you are likely taking part in one of the oldest and most egregious environmental and human rights violations in the nation -- the strip-mining of coal. Seems so old-fashioned, doesn't it? Nearly half of our country's electricity comes from...

After 9/11 -- When Will We Reach the Tipping Point?

By Jeff BiggersSep 10th 2010 – 10:03AM
Christopher Berkey, AP

Christopher Berkey, AP

(Sept. 10) -- A tiny Christian sect in Gainesville, Fla., threatens to burn the Quran on the anniversary of 9/11; tensions continue to rise over an Islamic community center near New York City's ground zero; the construction site of a new mosque in suburban Tennessee got torched last month. And Glenn Beck recently warned...

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Jeff Biggers (born in 1963) is an American author, journalist, playwright, master storyteller and performance artist.

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