What Will Climate Change Do to the U.S.-Mexico Border?
Rather than continue on a path to militarize the border, we should consider the alternatives.
Month: October 2018
Women’s Internationalism Against Global Patriarchy
Women’s liberation is at its heart a struggle for the liberation of all humanity from the most treacherous and insidious forms of oppression and domination.
Wars are Causing Global Hunger Rates to Rise
The number of hungry people increased to over 820 million in 2017 from approximately 804 million in 2016, levels unseen for almost a decade. Reversing years of progress, global hunger is on the rise once again and one of the culprits is clear: war.
The Real Reasons Behind Washington’s War on Palestinian Refugees
The US government’s decision to slash funds provided to the United Nations agency that cares for Palestinian refugees, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), is part of a new American-Israeli strategy aimed at redefining the rules of the game altogether.
Reclaiming Armistice Day: A Day to Perpetuate Peace
As a veteran, I will not be misled and victimized once more by the militarists and war profiteers.
Dear Christine Blasey Ford: You Are a Welcome Earthquake – Rebecca Solnit
Source: The Guardian
It was made at great personal cost, but your brave testimony has had incalculable benefits for the country at large
Dear Dr Christine Blasey Ford
I am writing to thank you. No matter how harrowing your experience, no matter what the US Senate does in the weeks to come, you have achieved something profound in its power and impact, something that benefits all of us. For there are two arenas in which your words will reverberate – the Senate, and the immeasurably vast realm of public discourse and societal values. Even if your words, like Anita Hill’s, are discounted in the former, they will echo in the latter for a long time to come.