June 16, 2011 by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher If you listen to right wing commentators, you might think American progressives are leading the charge to protect our planet from climate change. Would that it were so! All around the country, progressives are fighting to make our world a better place to live…. Read More »
NEXT STEPS FOR GLOBALIZATION FROM BELOW
May 13, 2011 Previous posts have described the vision laid out in the “Bejiing Declaration”on “The global economic crisis: An historic opportunity for transformation” and the specific proposals that make up its “transitional program” to move toward a “radically different kind of political and economic order.” This post looks at next steps toward realizing such… Read More »
SHOULD WE REMAIN SILENT ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?
March 31, 2011 by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher To talk of climate change or not to talk of climate change — that is the question.For the last several years many of the biggest players in the climate movement have argued that to save the planet we need to purge the words “global warming” and… 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 »
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