The deadly fire at an Oakland artist collective has exposed the warped priorities of a city where fewer and people can afford to live, explains David Judd.
AT LEAST 36 people were killed by a fire that raged through a warehouse hosting a concert in Oakland’s Fruitvale district last Friday (...)
As a methane gas leak continues unabated in Los Angeles, Ragina Johnson asks what it will take to protect communities and the environment from corporate polluters.
YOU’D THINK the ecological and social crisis in California couldn’t get any worse.
The state is suffering the effects of a historic (...)
It took nearly a week for the news about the New Year’s Eve mass sexual assaults on women in Cologne to appear in press and social networks. It took even longer for many to react, including myself. Despite the fact that the attacks of more than 100 women by a crowd of an estimated 1000 men (...)
As California Methane Leak Displaces Thousands, Will U.S. Regulate Natural Gas Sites Nationwide?
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ERIN BROCKOVICH a renowned consumer advocate and legal researcher. She is working with Weitz & Luxenberg to seek justice for victims of Porter Ranch gas leak. While a single mother of (...)
While the country continues to mourn the victims of the horrifying bombing of the Boston Marathon, another deadly explosion devastated a small town called West (just south of Dallas, Texas). On the evening of April 17, a large fertilizer plant caught fire and, just minutes later, exploded with (...)
A month after Frankenstorm Sandy struck , battle lines are beginning to be drawn in the wreckage along New York City’s shores. The brewing struggles are taking shape amidst the popular relief effort that sprung up immediately after the storm, pitting organizers and thousands of (...)
The superstorm was a catastrophe waiting to happen in the era of global warming. Rather than an ordinary late-season hurricane, Sandy became a monster fuelled by the heated waters of the Atlantic. It smashed through the Caribbean, causing massive damage and dozens of deaths both in Cuba (which (...)
Chris Williams, author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, examines the man-made factors contributing to the disaster of Hurricane Sandy.
"If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those (...)
The presidential candidates decided not to speak about climate change, but climate change has decided to speak to them. And what is a thousand-mile-wide storm pushing eleven feet of water toward our country’s biggest population center saying just days before the election? It is this: we are all (...)
On March 25, 1911, a fire that broke out in a bin holding scraps of fabric at the Triangle Waist Company, just down the block from New York City’s Washington Square Park, quickly spread, fed by cotton garments, tissue paper and wooden fixtures. Though the building that housed the clothing (...)
THE DEEPWATER HORIZON oil horror has again focused the nation on South Louisiana. For the second time in less than five years, we are on the front pages of America’s newspapers. Again, this region is being misunderstood. Easy explanations miss the reasons why this area is so vulnerable, and why (...)
New Orleans’s Saint Charles Avenue is lined with oak trees whose broad branches drip Spanish moss and Mardi Gras beads from the pre-Lenten parades, and behind the oaks are beautiful old houses with turrets, porches, balconies, bay windows, gables, dormers and lush gardens. There are no (...)
Everyone gathered for the town hall meeting had been repeatedly instructed to show civility to the gentlemen from BP and the federal government. These fine folks had made time in their busy schedules to come to a school gymnasium on a Tuesday night in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, one of many (...)
BP, with the help of the US federal agencies, has prevented journalists from reporting on the clean-up operations. It has also bought the rights to phrases such as ‘oil spill’ on the search engines Google and Yahoo.
British Petroleum (BP) has admitted it may not stop the Deepwater Horizon oil (...)
The US’s worst-ever environmental disaster took yet another bad turn after British Petroleum’s (BP) latest efforts to stop the torrent of oil from the Deepwater Horizon well failed.
Public discontent is growing, with increasing calls for a government takeover of the operation and seizure of BP’s (...)
Yes, the oil spewing up from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico in staggering quantities could prove one of the great ecological disasters of human history. Think of it, though, as just the prelude to the Age of Tough Oil , a time of ever increasing reliance on problematic, hard-to-reach energy (...)
WHEN UNION ARMY troops under the command of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler entered and occupied New Orleans in April of 1862, so began the first Reconstruction of the city and the state of Louisiana. The rise and then the defeat of the historic democratic struggle known as the first Reconstruction — (...)
This is an appenix to: , Leigh Brownhill, Terisa E. Turner, contribution presented at the International Institute for Research and Education Ecology Seminar: “Faced with climate change, energy revolution and social transformation” Amsterdam, The Netherlands.22-26 February 2008. Presented on 25 (...)
It is no exaggeration to call the ongoing situation in New Orleans a war. When I drive around the city, I see mile after mile after mile of flooded houses—with hardly a sign of life—their brown flood lines still clearly visible, many with windows and doors ajar, some with mounds of gutted walls (...)
Suzi Weissman: On tonight’s program we continue looking at Katrina’s catastrophe—on the ground and in the larger implications for the ’state of the state.’ The disaster exposed extreme cynicism, incompetence and sheer racism previously hidden or ignored.
We begin with Mike Davis, who returned to (...)
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