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Touring Empire’s Ruins: From Detroit to the Amazon

Greg Grandin June 23, 2009 Greg Grandin

Ford Car Stuck in Amazon Mud

The empire ends with a pull out. Not, as many supposed a few years ago, from Iraq. There, as well as in

Afghanistan

, we are mulishly staying the course, come what may, trapped in the biggest of all the "too-big-to-fail" boondoggles. But from Detroit. Of course, the real evacuation of the Motor City began decades ago, when Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler started to move more and more of their operations out of the downtown area to harder to unionize rural areas and suburbs, and, finally, overseas.

All-American Squatters Fight Homelessness

Jake Thomas June 23, 2009 Jake Thomas

Family Takes Back Foreclosed Home

Max Rameau stood at a lectern in one of Portland State University's student centers on an April afternoon. "Being against oppression and exploitation in your mind is not enough," he told a group of 70 activists. Rameau had been invited to Portland, Ore., to talk about Take Back the Land, his audacious-and illegal-campaign to fight homelessness caused by the economic crisis.

Next on the Endangered Species List: Your Hometown Newspaper

Benjamin Dangl June 22, 2009 Benjamin Dangl

Local newspapers ground us in a globalized world, provide a sense of community, and help define who and where we are. But now more than ever these local papers are disappearing. They're being bulldozed over by corporate conglomerates and dropping ad sales.

‘No Good News’ On Climate Change Front

Al Huebner June 18, 2009 Al Huebner

An article recently appeared in the journal Science that bore the title "Projections of Climate Change Go From Bad to Worse, Scientists Report." The details in the article confirm that this title is, if anything, an understatement. As University of Copenhagen biological oceanographer Katherine Richardson warned "there's no good news."

Hanging on For Survival in Chiloé: Ground Zero in Chile’s Salmon Bust

Benjamin Witte June 17, 2009 Benjamin Witte

Quellón, Chile - In the dwindling light of a crisp autumn evening, snow-covered Corcovado and its sister peaks shine pink above the silhouetted fishing boats that stretch out beyond the harbor in Quellón. The alpine glow is short-lived, though, and as the sun drops below the horizon. "The city is full of people just walking around," said Juana Chiguay, a union leader and assembly line worker in a local salmon processing plant. "Before it wasn't like that."

Grassroots Lessons From Latin America: An Interview with Michael Fox

Michael Fox June 16, 2009 Michael Fox

In this interview, Brazil-based independent journalist Michael Fox talks about what lessons US activists might consider from social movements throughout Latin America, and the challenges of applying Latin American activist strategies in the US under an Obama administration.