October 15, 2010 By Lisa Hovos, Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher What will be the impact of climate change on California workers if the US and other countries around the world fail to significantly reduce green house gas emissions? In other words, what happens in a “do nothing” scenario? Climate scientists have established… Read More »
THE REAL AMISTAD STORY
October 14, 2010 Director Stephen Spielberg deserves credit for bringing to public attention what historians used to refer to dismissively as “the Amistad incident.” It is the story of a group of Africans who were captured in Sierra Leone and brought in chains to the Americas — and who revolted, captured their ship, the… Read More »
THE STORY OF STONE SOUP
October 14, 2010 The war had lasted for years and years, and famine was in the land. Two soldiers, weary of war, decided to desert from the army and seek their way back home, hoping to arrive in time for the spring planting. They entered the village, and I don’t remember exactly what kind… Read More »
SOCIAL NETWORKING
October 7, 2010 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher An article called “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted” by Malcolm Gladwell in the October 4, 2010 New Yorker poses an important question: What if anything is the potential contribution of web-based “social networking” to social movements and social change? The article’s… Read More »
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