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Jorge Lawton, 1945 – 2014, !Presente!

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By Anna Simonton, Staff Writer.     (APN) ATLANTA — Jorge Lawton, a tireless Atlanta activist and key player in Latin American  progressive politics throughout his storied career as an interpreter, scholar, journalist, and high-level political analyst and advisor, died on Sunday, September 21, 2014, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.   Diagnosed with multiple myeloma five years ago, Lawton told […]

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(IPS) Citizens Reclaim Energy Cooperatives

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This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service website at: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107625. ATLANTA, Georgia, Apr 30, 2012 (IPS) – As the United Nations and countries around the world look at cooperatives as an alternative economic model for the production of energy, rural energy cooperatives have thrived for over eight decades in the U.S., and citizens in some parts of the country […]

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