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From the Salisbury Post:

Despite trying a new approach, Alcoa Power Generating Inc. found the path to relicensing a series of electricity-generating dams and reservoirs along the Yadkin River remained full of obstacles in 2011.

Alcoa’s license to operate the dams expired in 2008. It has been operating them under a temporary license while seeking a new 50-year license since then.

Dear Progressive Friends:

Here in the comments below this post are some of the resolutions that we as a group voted to support. Please print them out and take them to your precinct meeting so they can gain recognition and support across the state. Add your resolutions written in proper format in a comment if you would like to share them.

by George Lakoff

What's next? That's the question being asked as cities close down Occupy encampments and winter approaches.

The answer is simple. Just as the Tea Party gained power, the Occupy movement can. The Occupy movement has raised awareness of a great many of America's real issues and has organized supporters across the country. Next comes electoral power.

by Heiderose Kober PDNC President

The Occupy Wall Street movement has captured the American public’s attention as no politician, pundit or other mobilization has been able to accomplish and has fundamentally changed our national conversation. Americans are finally beginning to talk about the real threats to our economic and physical security as well as the huge democracy deficit that has relegated most of the citizens of our country into mere spectators on the sidelines of power instead of active participants in the democratic process of a self-governing people.