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Photo 1: Congressmen Brad Miller and David Price, flanked by volunteers, discuss why North Carolina can’t afford four more years of trickle-down economics.

The North Carolina Campaign for Change will hold the grand opening of its 16th North Carolina office in Cary today at 6:30 pm.

Congressman David Price (4th District) will speak to volunteers and supporters at the pot luck event in Cary, encouraging them to recruit friends and neighbors in support of the campaign.

Interrogation for Profit
NY Times Editorial
June 12, 2008

Congress is finally moving to ban one of the Bush administration’s most blatant evasions of accountability in Iraq — the outsourcing of war detainees’ interrogation to mercenary private contractors.

Operating free of the restraints of military rule and ethics, some of these corporate thugs turned up in the torture scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison and walked away with impunity. Others are now believed to be in the employ of the Central Intelligence Agency at secret prisons that remain outside the rule of law, exempted even from the weak 2006 rules on interrogating prisoners.

“Tomorrow, as on Earth Days for the past 38 years, many in our country will reflect upon our solemn responsibility to protect the natural environment from the adverse consequences of human activity, and to preserve it for future generations. On this Earth Day in 2008, there is no greater challenge to our responsible stewardship of the Earth and its resources than the threat of global climate change.

“Our government has ignored this threat for far too long. As the world’s largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases, our nation must be a leader in finding clean energy solutions that will reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions, reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, create a new generation of jobs, and provide energy security for us and the generations to come.