Yearly Archives: 2021
Why activism needs to be part of any meaningful climate education
Simply teaching kids about the science of the climate crisis isn’t enough. To prevent feelings of disempowerment, they need to see how they can make a meaningful impact.
Eyes are always on you
In the post-9/11 years, military has become part and parcel of a distinctly all-American “surveillance” culture.
Two parties: Two countries
Can we heal this? I believe so, given honest effort and compassion, two qualities crucial for our future as a country, and as a free people.
New WHO report demands urgent action on climate and health crises
“The same unsustainable choices that are killing our planet are killing people.”
Navy nuclear engineer and wife arrested for selling submarine secrets
“The work of the FBI, Department of Justice prosecutors, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Department of Energy was critical in thwarting the plot charged in the complaint and taking this first step in bringing the perpetrators to justice.”
How Trump might save the Democrats
Trump may have given Democrats more leeway to do what Americans – including most Trump supporters – need them to do.
“Code red” for climate means reducing US oil and gas production
Whatever long game the Biden administration hopes to play, the planet is telling us that we are going into the fourth quarter with no promise of overtime.
A quarter of all ‘critical’ US infrastructure at risk from flooding: Report
“Our nation’s infrastructure is not built to a standard that protects against the level of flood risk we face today, let alone how those risks will grow over the next 30 years as the climate changes,” said one expert.
“People vs. Fossil fuels’’: Winona Laduke & mass protests call on Biden to stop...
“’We’re going to have Indigenous Peoples’ Day, but we’re still going to smash you in northern Minnesota and smash the rest of the country.’”
Indigenous peoples like mine are fighting for our homelands
Many would-be migrants, like the Garifuna, would love nothing more than to stay in our homes. It’s Washington that’s making it difficult.