All Views Articles for 2014-09-23
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Joseph Boutilier Why the People’s Climate March Actually Was Awesome When dozens of environmental organizations united behind Bill McKibbon’s 350 to organize a climate change march in downtown Manhatten, they promised it would be the biggest protest in the history of... Read more |
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Charles E. Cobb Guns and the Southern Freedom Struggle: What’s Missing When We Teach About Nonviolence This country is bad with its history. Pieces of history that could help us think more clearly about today’s movements for social change are often ignored or distorted in popular media or commercial... Read more |
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Joseph J. Mangano German Push for Renewable Energy Lowers Costs, Saves Lives The headline splashed across page 1 of the Sunday New York Times on September 14 leading off a long article said it all: “Sun and Wind Alter Global Landscape.” The focus was on Germany’s push to... Read more |
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Karyn Strickler Fear This, Congress: The People’s Climate March The People’s Climate March has permanently changed national and international perception and proven that Americans care passionately about the climate issue. The diverse sea of black, brown and white... Read more |
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Diana Anahi Torres-Valverde The Fight to Keep Toxic Mining—and the World Bank—Out of El Salvador Hundreds of protesters recently gathered at the World Bank to shame a gold mining firm’s shakedown of one of Central America’s poorest countries. Read more |
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Peter Van Buren Apocalypse Now, Iraq Edition Fighting in Iraq Until Hell Freezes Over Read more |
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Dean Baker If Children Are Being Crowded Out, It is Being Done by Rich People There is a well-funded effort (think Fix the Debt and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation ) to distract people from the upward redistribution to the rich through claims that the problem is really the... Read more |
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Phyllis Bennis “There Is No Military Solution” — But Obama Launches a New U.S. War in Syria President Obama’s decision to bomb Syria stands in stark violation of international law, the UN Charter, and the requirements of the U.S. Constitution. It contradicts his own commitment, stated a... Read more |
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Peter Bosshard No Need to Sacrifice the Planet’s Arteries to Save Her Lungs From the flood-prone coastline of Bangladesh to East Africa's drought-stricken farm lands, climate change hits people hardest who have least contributed to it. World governments have agreed to... Read more |