Militarism’s Climate Casualties
Volume: 26
Number: 2
The Van with the Plan The Green-Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems By Van Jones with Ariane Conrad HarperOne, 2008, 256 pages, $25.99 By Ellen Barfield Van Jones knows how the United States can go from a fossil fuel-guzzling, faltering to failing economy, with incredible numbers of incarcerated and impoverished…
Sudden Fire Witness to Hiroshima Directed by Kathy Sloane Available on DVD from www.witnesstohiroshima.com By David McReynolds Hiroshima/Nagasaki: Perhaps darkness and total silence is the best documentary. Perhaps there is no way to grasp this. Most of you reading this review were not alive when that sudden, unexpected fire disintegrated Hiroshima. I was a kid…
Uprooting Violence Disarm Directed by Mary Wareham and Brian Liu Next Step Productions/Toolbox P.C. Available on DVD from www.Indiepixfilms.com When peace comes, there are going to be massive casualties,” says Yeshua Moser-Pangsuwan of Nonviolence International, speaking from the troubled border between Thailand and Myanmar. So many landmines contaminate the border area, he explains, that residents…
Housing Welcome to the first in a series of columns devoted to nonviolent activism under the new administration. The candidate who promised change is now in the White House, but as always, real change must come from us. Throughout Obama’s presidency, we will explore various key organizing issues and how things have changed … or…
We want simple things,” Atilio Curiñanco of the Santa Rosa community says to me through a crackling connection. “Most people don’t understand that.” It is February 11, and in three days the families of the community of Santa Rosa will mark the two-year anniversary of their nonviolent reclamation of their ancestral territory. In the early…
A new perspective and action on militarism and environmental justice March 2, 2009, was a turning point in U.S. history. On that snowy Monday morning in Washington DC, more than 10,000 student and youth attendees of the Power Shift 09 (PS09) conference engaged in the largest and most effectively coordinated demonstration of power by youth…
Science fiction is becoming science reality With virtually no public scrutiny, robotics is quickly revolutionizing not only how war is fought, but who fights in war. When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, the military had no robots on the ground and only a handful of unstaffed drones in the air. Today, according to…
In the 1980s, I traveled to Nevada several times to protest nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. A friend of mine was a “nuclear veteran,” one of the 6,000 soldiers positioned within a mile of one of the above-ground explosions in the 1950s to…
Since I returned from combat in Iraq, the concepts of war, justice, and human rights have weighed heavily on my consciousness. I’ve dedicated myself to the antiwar movement and debated tactics and strategies for the most effective way to end armed conflict. The more I delved, the more I saw societies around the world…
As the single largest consumer of energy in the world, the U.S. military is poised at the center of two of the most life-altering issues of our time: climate change and the height of oil production (“peak oil”). Surprisingly, the Pentagon began taking both matters seriously much sooner than the rest of government, which still…
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