People’s Power: Participatory Budgeting from Brazil to Chicago
Chicago's 49th Ward first US government to adopt Brazilian practice of letting the people make their own budgets.
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Resolution Calling to Amend the Constitution Banning Corporate Personhood Introduced in Vermont
On the anniversary of the Citizens United decision, Vermont politicians are moving to deny corporations the rights that humans enjoy.
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant: Taking Action to Shut it Down Now
Welcoming the New Year Saturday January 1, 2011 nine women from Vermont and Massachusetts were arrested as they blocked the driveway leading in to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant owned by Entergy.
The Human Faces of Latin America’s Cold War
The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War by Greg Grandin is based on the belief that the Cold War was more than just a battle of ideologies, nations and political leaders, but a dramatic struggle waged by everyday people whose illuminating stories were buried.
Rewriting the “Tragedy of the Commons”
It was two years before the first Earth Day in 1970 when Garrett Hardin penned the famous essay “Tragedy of the Commons,” and it fit a certain bleak and despairing mood of the time.
Sudan: The Price of Separation
All of this week a historic referendum is taking place in which the people of Southern Sudan are casting their votes to determine whether to secede from the North, likely becoming Africa’s newest independent nation.