May 19, 2009 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher As Americans are inundated with revelations about the lies, torture and other crimes that accompanied the US-led war in Iraq, many who resisted continue to be punished for refusing to participate in those crimes. First Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned military officer to refuse… Read More »
LABOR’S CHANGING APPROACH TO CLIMATE CHANGE
April 30, 2009 Some unions dissented early from AFL-CIO climate policy. In 1990 the Steelworkers, America’s largest and most diversified manufacturing union with a strong history of environmentalism created an executive board committee on environmental issues and issued a policy statement saying that global warming “may be the single greatest problem we face. Some… Read More »
BAILING OUT THE PLANET
February 4, 2009 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith, & Jeremy Brecher As the rag-tag army of social movement activists, NGO representatives and other advocates from global civil society wend their way home from the Amazonian city of Belem, Brazil, and the World Social Forum (WSF), they have reason to believe they have won… Read More »
WILL WAR CRIMES BE OUTED?
December 17. 2008 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher As the officials of the Bush administration pack up in Washington and move into their posh suburban homes around the country, will they be able to rest easy, or will they be haunted by the fear that they will be held accountable for war crimes… Read More »
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