Leading environmentalist and human rights champion Rebecca "Becky" Tarbotton, executive director of the organization Rainforest Action Network (RAN), has died at the age of 39.

According to RAN, Tarbotton died Wednesday on a beach in Mexico while vacationing with her husband and friends. The coroner ruled cause of death as asphyxiation from water she breathed in while swimming.

12/15/12 - Highlights of the 2012 Gifts of Hope Telethon, a fundraising event to benefit the Belmont Food Pantry.

Democracy Now! 2012-12-28 Friday

• Headlines for December 28, 2012
• Dennis Kucinich on the "Fiscal Cliff": Why Are We Sacrificing American Jobs for Corporate Profits?
• Outgoing Rep. Dennis Kucinich: With 2 Parties Failing U.S., It's on Us to Build a "Culture of Peace"
• The Wilmington 10: North Carolina Urged to Pardon Civil Rights Activists Falsely Jailed 40 Years Ago

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Democracy Now! 2012-12-27 Thursday

• Headlines for December 27, 2012
• NY Daily News Honors Juan González for 25 Years as "Beacon to Whistleblowers and Wronged People"
• The FBI vs. Occupy: Secret Docs Reveal "Counterterrorism" Monitoring of OWS from Its Earliest Days
• The Other Bradley Manning: Jeremy Hammond Faces Life Term for WikiLeaks and Hacked Stratfor Emails
• Tea Party Turmoil: FreedomWorks' Dick Armey Takes $8 Million Exit Buyout After Failed Coup

Democracy Now! 2012-12-26 Wednesday

• Headlines for December 26, 2012
• "Blood on Your Hands": CODEPINK Interrupts NRA's Wayne LaPierre as He Calls for Guns in U.S. Schools
• As U.S. Faces Gun Epidemic Post-Newtown, Obama Urged to Break With NRA & Back Global U.N. Arms Treaty
• Idle No More: Indigenous-Led Protests Sweep Canada for Native Sovereignty and Environmental Justice

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Democracy Now! 2012-12-25 Tuesday

• Dr. Gabor Maté on the Stress-Disease Connection, Addiction and the Destruction of American Childhood

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Democracy Now! Monday, December 24, 2012

Democracy Now! 2012-12-21 Friday

• Headlines for December 21, 2012
• New Report Sheds Light on Bin Laden Murder, as Pakistan Faces Fallout from U.S.-Led Vaccination Plot
• As the ANC Votes to Support BDS, a New Film Compares Life in Palestine to Apartheid South Africa
• "End of the World": Apocalypse or Shopocalypse? Reverend Billy on Consumerism and Climate Change

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12/18/12 - School Committee meeting in Belmont, MA.