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Review of Terminal Warfare
Review of the new novel Terminal Warfare by J.D. Everhard. Continue reading
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Readers’ Views, March-April 2014, Part 2
Readers’ Views from the March-April 2014 issue of News & Letters, part 2. Continue reading
anti-abortion, Charles Denby, Ciudad Juárez, climate change, clinic escorts, criminal injustice system, Elie Wiesel, environment, Escuelita Zapatista, femicido, feminicido, feminism, fossil fuels, global warming, Indignant Heart: A Black Worker’s Journal, labor, Nuclear power, patriarchy, Pelican Bay State Prison, philosophy, Primo Levi, prison industrial complex, prisoners, sexism, Walter Benjamin, women’s liberation, workers, Yeyetzi Cardiel, Zapatistas -
Readers’ Views, Jan.-Feb. 2014, Part 2
From the January-February 2014 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views, Part 2 ENVIRONMENT UNDER THREAT Recently I attended a talk near Berkeley, Calif., by a retired professor about the effect of environmental damage on political instability in the Middle East. He spoke disparagingly of Arab countries, but was full of praise for Israeli technology… Continue reading
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Readers’ Views, Jan.-Feb. 2014, Part 1
From the January-February 2014 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views, Part 1 THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION AS TEST OF WORLD POLITICS I have been active in a number of student groups around labor and women’s issues. We always talk about “intersectionality” and recognizing different struggles. Somehow that didn’t seem to apply, though, when it came… Continue reading
anti-eviction, Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, Borzou Daragahi, Charleston West Virginia, Chuck Roth, Communities United Against Foreclosure and Eviction, Elk River, environment, gentrification, homelessness, Iran, labor, Los Angeles, Middle East revolutions, New York City, Northside Action for Justice, prisoners, San Francisco, Shira Scheindlin, Syria, Syrian civil war, Syrian people, Syrian revolution, Uber, workers -
No to Monsanto!
From the November-December 2013 issue of News & Letters: No to Monsanto! Protesters in Nashville, Tenn., in one of the 400 demonstrations of the second Global March against Monsanto on Oct. 12. Protests were held in 52 countries on all inhabited continents. They were calling for the permanent boycott of genetically modified organisms and harmful… Continue reading
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Oakland Frackdown
About 90 members of environmental and community groups gathered at Frank Ogawa Plaza for “Oakland Frackdown” to protest passage of State Senate Bill 4 authorizing hydraulic fracturing in California. Continue reading
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Movements confront climate change
Occupations of planned fracking sites in Canada and Romania showed the intensification of struggles against the damage fossil fuel exploitation is inflicting. The urgency of stopping the headlong rush to extract and burn fossil fuel was underscored by the latest comprehensive report from the International Panel on Climate Change. Continue reading
Brazil, Canada, capitalism, carbon budget, Chevron, China, climate change, climate justice movement, coal, Elsipogtog Mi’kmaq First Nation, environment, fossil fuels, Fox News, fracking, Global Frackdown, global warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, James Hansen, Keystone XL pipeline, Koch brothers, New Brunswick, Pungesti, Rexton New Brunswick, Saudi Arabia, tar sands -
Down with ALEC!
Close to 2,000 people rallied in Chicago against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Continue reading
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