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We Need Your Help Here in Eastern Tennessee"So here in east Tennessee, we need your help. We need you to get the word out that there is no such thing as clean coal. We need the rest of the nation to hear that a spill -- 40 times larger than the Valdez wreck -- has destroyed the waters and communities around Kingston, TN, and that it could happen again. We need your help to support the workers on the ground whose blood, sweat and tears are keeping these communities together."
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Obama and Education Reform"I would've picked Linda Darling-Hammond as Secretary of Education in an Obama administration. She's smart, honest, compassionate and courageous, and perhaps most striking, she actually knows schools and classrooms, curriculum and teaching, kids and child development. These have never counted for much as qualifications for the post, of course. Then again I would've picked Noam Chomsky for state, Naomi Klein for defense, Bernardine Dohrn for AG, Bill Fletcher for commerce, James Thindwa for labor, Barbara Ransby for human services, Paul Krugman for treasury, and Amy Goodman for press secretary. So what do I know?"
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Making Sense of the Greek Uprising"The events of the last two weeks represent the most major social explosion in Greece since the 1973 student revolt that was brutally repressed by the US-backed military regime ruling Greece at that time. Conservative politicians and Greek pundits have tried to delegitimize the adoption of forms of direct action, such as occupations, by arguing that, unlike the student revolt in 1973, today’s government is a democratically elected one. This fails to convince many of the protesters who feel that, rather than a genuine democracy, Greece’s political system may best be described as a two-party rule by corrupt political elites [ed. note: sound familiar, Americans?] that have consistently over the years failed to address the problems affecting Greek people in general, and young people in particular."
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Bush's Final F.U."In its final days, the administration is rushing to implement a sweeping array of 'midnight regulations' — de facto laws issued by the executive branch — designed to lock in Bush's legacy. Under the last- minute rules, which can be extremely difficult to overturn, loaded firearms would be allowed in national parks, uranium mining would be permitted near the Grand Canyon and many injured consumers would no longer be able to sue negligent manufacturers in state courts. Other rules would gut the Endangered Species Act, open millions of acres of wild lands to mining, restrict access to birth control and put local cops to work spying for the federal government." Doh!
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Neuer Anarchismus in den USA"The protests against the meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999 exerted a substantial influence on the development of contemporary American culture of resistance. A remarkable aspect of this development is the revival of an anarchist movement, which today to a large extent the political dissidence in the country are defined. This volume presents the basis of this movement in nineteen individually initiated and annotated texts. The chapters combine the presentation of influential writers, collectives, and concepts with depictions of everyday anarchist culture." A general introduction to the history of anarchism in the U.S. starts things off. The best anarchist book of 2008!
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Land Sharing is a New Trend"Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's latest venture is Landshare -- a scheme which puts people with large unused gardens in touch with gardeners wanting space. He calls it a 'food revolution destined to be the next great thing.' With more people wanting to grow their own food and allotments being harder and harder to come by, he just may be right. It is a simple and optimistic idea. People register their interest as a grower, a spotter -- someone who has seen land in their area that may be suitable for growing -- or an owner. The register will put these people in touch with each other." This land is your land, this land is my land...
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Peace Voice"PeaceVoice is a project of the Oregon Peace Institute and is an idea whose time has come. PeaceVoice is devoted to changing U.S. national conversation about the possibilities of peace and the inadvisability of war. We are creating a library of previously unpublished articles written by peace professionals and offering them on a daily basis as op-eds to editors of newspapers and online news organizations. Essentially, we are free literary agents to busy peace professionals. We believe that by presenting academically informed opinions that promote peace and nonviolent conflict resolution, we give the public one of the best, and most seriously absent, inoculants against war."
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We Need Your Help Here in Eastern Tennessee
