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Welcome to the (Don’t Be) Evil Empire: Google Eats the World

Rebecca Solnit June 27, 2013 Rebecca Solnit

Finally, journalists have started criticizing in earnest the leviathans of Silicon Valley, notably Google, now the world’s third-largest company in market value. The new round of discussion began even before the revelations that the tech giants were routinely sharing our data with the National Security Agency, or maybe merging with it. Simultaneously another set of journalists, apparently unaware that the weather has changed, is still sneering at San Francisco, my hometown, for not lying down and loving Silicon Valley’s looming presence. read more

Contextualizing Obama’s Visit to Africa

Horace G. Campbell June 27, 2013 Horace G. Campbell

In recent years, the United States has increasingly been sidelined in areas of deep economic transformation in Africa because US engagement with Africa has been primarily through militarism and military relations. The current visit of US President Barack Obama to Africa should be viewed against this background.

Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of Restaurant Opportunities Center

Consumers Join the Movement for Food Workers’ Rights

Tory Field and Beverly Bell June 25, 2013 Tory Field and Beverly Bell

“We are trying to have workers become as trendy as local and organic has become in the industry,” Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of Restaurant Opportunities Center, told us. “It’s going to take the three stakeholders - workers, good employers, and consumers - working together to actually change things."

Kwame Nkrumah, First Prime Minister of Ghana

Paths to Independence: Toward Freedom in Africa

Greg Guma June 24, 2013 Greg Guma

Toward Freedom editor Bill Lloyd and two of his four children spent ten weeks with him crossing Africa during Fall, 1957. They subsequently published a series of first-hand reports inTF on independence struggles in ten countries. In the process they also met privately with the new leaders of Ghana, the Sudan and Tunisia.

Portraits of an Uprising: Photo Essay From the Streets of Turkey

Colin Shafer June 20, 2013 Colin Shafer

What started as a peaceful protest to protect an urban park from being demolished, has led to a persistent ongoing movement in Istanbul’s Gezi Park and Taksim Square against an increasingly authoritarian government. As the mainstream media tells the sensational highlights, it is important to remember the human element of a conflict.

The Awakening That’s Happening Around Local, Sustainable Food

Tory Field and Beverly Bell June 19, 2013 Tory Field and Beverly Bell

“People are realizing that we can’t rely on the industrial food system much longer. The awakening that’s happening is our greatest opportunity,” says New Mexican farmer and activist Miguel Santistevan. This awakening has sparked the revival of local, sustainable food systems.