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Hearing Targets `Report On Carcinogens`

Dow, one of the manufactures of Agent Orange, invited to Congressional hearing.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Most Americans concerned about the health effects of environmental exposures and the increased risk of cancer would no doubt agree that the ROC is worthy effort to fund.

My Confrontation with Mr. Fayyad, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority

Tense times in Palestine between a top official, and an activist who states the truth...

(RAMALLAH) - I participated recently in the 'Welcome to Palestine' program headquartered in Bethlehem, the West Bank.

Earth Day 2012: Don Alfredo Figueroa Speaks About The Aztec Sunstone Calendar

Examining the Nahua perspective as we come to the end of the 5th Sun of the Aztec Calendar.

(SOLANA BEACH, CA) - Earth Day 2012: Don Alfredo Figueroa Speaks About The Aztec Sunstone Calendar

In honor of Earth Day, 2012, RL | A ECO is beginning to release several short videos on-line featuring Elder Historian and Chemehuevi Cultural Monitor, Don Alfredo Figueroa.

Rage in the Air

Rajasthan: Mobile towers shut down in a Jaipur 
colony following THE WEEK’s report.

(JAIPUR, India) - For a day it seemed Sudhir Kasliwal had won the battle.

The Jaipur jeweller, who had been
campaigning to move cell phone towers out of residential areas, was relieved when Jaipur city authorities took note of THE WEEK's report on the impact of mobile towers (‘Wave of worry', March 11) and shut down operations; only to be restarted the next day.

Every Day Should be Earth Day

While Earth Day is a good day to concentrate on cleaning up and protecting the environment, it is a practice that should be continued everyday of the year.

(SALEM) - Earth day is the day we all look at ways we can reduce our carbon footprint. 20% of all greenhouse gases come from automobiles, so it makes sense to start there.

The rising gas prices are causing many people to buy a more fuel efficient vehicle. That is a good thing, not just for the economy.

Japan: Actively Encourage the Burmese Government to Institute the Systemic Reforms Necessary for Democracy

Letter to Japan's PM questions continual funding of the international law violator- the Burmese military junta.

(HONG KONG) - Military abuse against ethnic minorities in Burma, continues; the armed forces of this military junta have not changed their abusive behavior in ethnic conflict areas.

A Day in The Life of Strawberry Fields and IMAGINING a FREE Vanunu Mordechai

“Reality leaves a lot to the IMAGINATION.”-John Lennon

(CLERMONT, FLA) - Because I have been imagining a FREE Vanunu, a FREE Gaza-Palestine and a Nuclear FREE World since 2005 during my first of 7 trips to the so called Holy Land, I knew I had to do something to mark 21 April 2012.

It begins the first day of the 9th year-on top of 18 years in jail- that Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower has been waiting for his right to leave the state.

Occupy Wall Street User Manual--Part 1

Knowledge is power.

(Calgary, Alberta) - In the 19th century, history was largely explained by The Great Man Theory , the paradigm that history was made and driven by extraordinary individuals who, through either charisma, intelligence, wisdom, or Machiavellian skills, expressed their power in a way that had a decisive impact on the flow of history.

Herbert Spencer, the 19th century Father of Sociology, rejected this idea, saying that such “great” men are really the products of their social milieu, and that their actions would be impossible outside their social environment.

Where the `Self` Ends and the `West` Begins

The Western subject, as well as Western society, is submerged in self-love. Somehow we cannot understand how it is that a system that was created to explore our human liberties, can fail.

(LONDON) - When we were young there was hope in the air. There was good reason to look ahead.

Literature in a Locked Down Land

"I've been in prison my whole life" - Mumia Abu-Jamal

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - Working class literature is alive and well and living in prison. It is "well" not in the sense of being contented and happy but rather of being vital and impassioned.

And it is imprisoned not just in the sense of being locked behind bars but also of being locked into poverty. Some prisons have walls of iron and stone, others walls of economics and racism.