Beyond Religion: Interview with Robert Jensen
Last year, around the same time Hemant Mehta (the eBay atheist) was visiting various churches, atheist and journalism scholar Robert Jensen joined one. Jensen, a journalism scholar at the Robert Jensen
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Congo: Three Cheers for Eve Ensler?
A major propaganda front has swept the Western media decrying the unprecedented sexual violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. As this story goes to press the war in Congo-claiming 1000 lives a day in the East and more than 7 million people since 1996-is escalating yet again. More than 1.2 million were reported displaced in June, with at least 8000 additional displaced persons on October 22 after fighting escalated-as Western-backed forces perpetrate genocide and terrorism to depopulate and secure the land for multinational mining interests. Mining in DRC, Photo: KH Snow
New Orleans: Demolishing Disaster Capitalism
Resistance against public housing demolitions in New Orleans.
"If you try to bulldoze our homes, we're going to fight.
There's going to be a war in New Orleans."
- Sharon Jasper, New Orleans low income housing resident
Casualties in the Scramble for Congo’s Resources
Over the past few months a lot of ink has flowed in mainstream publications about the situation in the Mining in Congo
After Bali Climate Talks: Toward a People’s Agenda for Climate Justice
With all the fanfare that usually accompanies such gatherings, delegates to the recent UN climate talks on the Indonesian island of Bali returned to their home countries declaring victory. Despite the continued obstructionism of the US delegation, the negotiators reached a mild consensus for continued negotiations on reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, and at the very last moment were able to cajole and pressure the US to sign on.Bali Protest Photo: Orin Langelle/GJEP