What can we do, collectively and individually, in response to the famine in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa, which has been called “the most severe food security emergency in the world today”? Since the rains failed in October 2010, famine in Somalia has already caused tens of thousands of deaths, including more than 29,000 children [...]
Not quite a year ago, NASA climatologist James Hansen joined hundreds of Appalachian coalfield activists, including Teri Blanton, Maria Gunnoe, Bo Webb, Larry Gibson, Mickey McCoy and Bob Kincaid at a sit-in in front of the White House, and called for the abolition of mountaintop removal mining. In an extraordinary act of solidarity, Blanton and [...]
ANKANG, China — A decade from now, the quiet mountains and farm villages across this vast ribbon of central China will be modern towns and cities. Farmers will be urbanites, and the region’s main river will be cleaned up and channeled toward Beijing. That is, if all goes according to plan. There are many variables [...]
The Aug. 29th Washington Post article “Syrian unrest raises fears about chemical arsenal” by Pulitzer Prize winning author Joby Warrick raises a key national security question for the United States. Will we pursue an arms control or arms proliferation foreign policy in the 21st century? During the moving Egyptian revolution, canisters of tear gas that [...]
President Dmitry Medvedev has come up with an idea to ask the richest Russians – whose fortune is estimated at over one billion dollars – to share the secrets of their success with schoolchildren. “I have an idea. I will invite representatives of big business circles – mainly those whose fortunes stand at, let’s say, [...]
Human rights groups have accused the Sudanese government of committing war crimes in South Kordofan. A new report by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch states that atrocities are being committed by the Khartoum government in South Kordofan. The region is being bombed by government forces on an almost daily basis. Aid is thus being [...]
The Obama administration has given an important approval to a controversial pipeline that will pump oil from the tar sands of Alberta to the Texas coast. In a blow to campaigners, who have spent the last week at a sit-in at the White House, the State Department said the proposed 1,700-mile pipeline would not cause [...]
The money worth €43 million (£38m) from a charitable foundation linked to the Swedish furniture chain will be used to support the world’s largest refugee complex in Dadaab, Kenya over the next three years. Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said that the cash gift, the biggest in the agency’s 60-year history, would [...]
This Year October 2, 2011 is the 2nd Annual IWagePeace Walk Last Year, on Sunday Oct. 24, 2010, at 3 p.m. nearly 300 people gathered for the first IWagePeace Walk at Grove Park, at Savin Rock on West Haven’s beautiful Shoreline. The walk was attended and sponsored by the 23 area Churches, Mosques, Synagogues and [...]
The Bread and Roses Heritage Festival is a celebration of the ethnic diversity and labor history of Lawrence, Ma. This annual festival is celebrated on Labor Day in order to honor the most significant event in Lawrence history: the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike. We memorialize the event with a variety of music and dance, [...]
