Climate and Environmental Crisis

New strategy launched to fight Cop City

Atlanta Within a day of the massive community turnout at the June 5 Atlanta City Council meeting — where, despite…

June 12, 2023

Militarizing the Arctic

Think cutting shipping time from six weeks to less than three weeks is attractive to manufacturers? The Northern Sea Route…

June 7, 2023

‘Compromise and consensus’ − but for whom?

President Joe Biden averted a default on the federal debt June 3 when he signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act. Biden…

June 6, 2023

Wildfires threaten Indigenous First Nations lands

This month, wildfires continue to devastate Indigenous First Nations lands in the western part of so-called Canada. At least 91…

May 23, 2023

Struggle to stop Cop City continues

Atlanta Hundreds of opponents of “Cop City” — the militarized police-training facility scheduled to be built on forested lands in…

May 22, 2023

How capitalism drives climate catastrophe

Portland, Oregon Since I moved to Oregon, all I’ve been hearing is: “This weather isn’t normal. It’s too hot in…

May 17, 2023

Okefenokee Swamp threatened by proposed strip mine

Atlanta A years-long struggle by the Muskogee Creek Nation and environmentalists to preserve the Okefenokee Swamp, home of the Okefenokee…

May 10, 2023

Flood waters, torture: Demand Corcoran prisons be shut down

Oakland, California The big news coming out of California is about the flooding of the Central Valley where multi-million dollar…

May 3, 2023

Trump’s indictment: only a beginning

Former President Donald J. Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury March 31. The unexpected news was celebrated by…

April 3, 2023

Chemical leaks danger to community drinking water in Philadelphia

In the late afternoon of March 26, Philadelphia residents received a jarring emergency alert that it was not safe to…

March 31, 2023