Taking The “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” Policy to the White House Lawn
Driven by curiosity and the desire for a military career, Mara Boyd was only 17 when she joined the Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) in 1999.
Month: August 2010
Defying Borders at a De-Facto Refugee Camp in France
I had come to Calais, France to accompany the No Borders activists in their solidarity work with the hundreds of migrants trying to make it across the channel to the promised land of Britain.
Video – Arizona: State of Fear
Source: The Real News
Fear in the state’s Latino community is not a side-effect, it’s the stated goal of those in power.
‘Attrition by enforcement’ is the name of the game in Arizona. The goal is to dissuade undocumented immigration by making life unbearable for the undocumented already living in Arizona. Desert tent jails and arbitrary checkpoints are two of the tactics used to strike fear into the undocumented with the goal of deterring others from coming. Ecuadorian filmmaker Oscar León, who has been covering this issue from Arizona for the past three years, points out that the undocumented can’t possibly be separated from the documented Latino population without a police state, and Arizona has been developing it’s own version long before the controversial SB1070 law was on the map.
What the Zapatistas Can Teach us About the Climate Crisis
With their 1994 battle cry, “Ya basta!” ("Enough already!") Mexico’s Zapatista uprising became the spearhead of two convergent movements: Mexico’s movement for indigenous rights and the international movement against corporate globalization.
We Have Yet to See The Biggest Costs of the BP Spill
Source: The Nation
We’re almost at the happily-ever-after stage of the Gulf oil spill story. The well has been killed, the beaches are being scrubbed and wicked Tony Hayward has been banished to Russia. All that’s left now is for BP to make good on the damage it has caused. The company has set aside $32 billion to meet its liabilities, while doing everything in its power to keep the damages below that figure. But even if it has to pay the full price, it will have won one of the biggest bargains in corporate history. BP’s true debt is far higher than any of the figures that have been floated to date. The biggest costs to the Gulf have yet to be seen.
War of the World: An Interview With Dahr Jamail
Seven years ago, angered over the mainstream media’s flawed portrayal of the Iraq War, independent journalist Dahr Jamail took it upon himself to report from the front lines of the conflict.