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Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam Stirs Controversy

Gabriel Elizondo January 26, 2012 Gabriel Elizondo

About 24,000 people will be displaced from towns in the Amazon to make way for the world’s third biggest dam.

Altamira, Brazil – Drive about 90 minutes outside this sultry Brazilian Amazon town, and into the thicket of the jungle, and a surreal, other-worldly scene appears.

It’s a place where dozens of steel arms with giant claws from land excavators cut into the red earth, carving out deep holes.

There are earth movers, growling bulldozers and dump trucks crossing switch back roads that lead into colossal man-made craters, while clusters of hard hat-wearing engineers, glare down inspecting it all. read more

Lessons for Obama: How FDR Fended Off The 1%’s Attacks Against His New Deal Reforms

Gerard Colby January 24, 2012 Gerard Colby

Many of the same ultra-right families of the richest 1% in the U.S. currently attacking New Deal reforms protecting working families are the same families who attacked President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s for introducing these reforms.

South Africa: The Impacts of Coal Extraction

Glenn Ashton January 24, 2012 Glenn Ashton

Against the background chatter about nationalization and environmental sustainability, South Africa needs to carefully consider the continued development of its vast mineral resources.

Remembering Etta James

Henry A. Giroux January 24, 2012 Henry A. Giroux

Source: Truthout

My encounter with the music of Etta James constituted something of a rite of passage. I was a white, working-class kid who went to Catholic Youth Organization dances on Friday nights with small dreams, hoping to escape the boredom and sometimes explosive violence in my working-class neighborhood and find an outlet for the erupting and confusing desires that dominated the lives of young boys. The music was generally tame, and almost entirely white. Instead of Little Richard we got Pat Boone; instead of Little Anthony and the Imperials, we got the Beach Boys. When things got risky, we might have heard Carl Perkins or Elvis Presley. read more

Post-Earthquake Haiti Two Years On: Beyond Relief, Beyond Belief

Phillip Wearne January 17, 2012 Phillip Wearne

The earthquake in Haiti on 12 January 2010 proved so devastating partly because the country’s development model had failed so completely. Now those funding the reconstruction of the country are pursuing the same disastrous path.

How to Learn Nonviolent Resistance as King Did

Mary Elizabeth King January 16, 2012 Mary Elizabeth King

How does one learn nonviolent resistance? The same way that Martin Luther King Jr. did—by study, reading and interrogating seasoned tutors.