The Indypendent | January 16, 2009 |No Comments
Obama’s environmental policies may be leaps and bounds ahead of those of his predecessor, but he will have to play catch-up when it comes to establishing a respectable climate policy. A look at what Obama proposes reveals that the United States is not headed for the type of radical reform necessary.
Appearances | January 5, 2009 |No Comments
New Hampshire Public Radio’s Word of Mouth interviewed me for a segment about organic cigarettes.
Appearances | January 2, 2009 |No Comments
A portion of my article “Lessons From Protesting Guantanamo” appeared in this book by Witness Against Torture, published by Yellow Bike Press.
Plenty Magazine | December 27, 2008 |No Comments
What many smokers of American Spirits may not know, despite the company’s professed dedication to operating “in as transparent a manner as possible,” is that the company making their cigarettes is owned by a multinational corporation that exploits natural resources, the environment and labor.
Earth Island Journal | December 22, 2008 |1 Comment
Malawi has the highest rate of deforestation in southern Africa, having lost about 13 percent of its forest cover between 1990 and 2005. Experts think that tobacco cultivation is the driving force and that perhaps by 2035 most, if not all, of the native tree coverage will be gone.
Z Magazine | November 1, 2008 |3 Comments
When Israel began imposing economic sanctions and withholding taxes from the occupied territories in response to Hamas’s electoral victory in 2006, a group of human rights activists from around the globe gathered to discuss what they could do to ease the plight of the Palestinian people. Two years later they broke the siege by sailing two boats into Gaza.
Voices of Central PA | September 5, 2008 |No Comments
In 1972 thousands of Penn State students protested the Vietnam War by surrounding the Applied Research Laboratory on campus—a major Department of Defense contractor—forcing it to shut down for three days. Today, the lab goes largely unnoticed, even while it produces the next wave of war machines.
AlterNet, Common Dreams, Foreign Policy In Focus | February 1, 2008 |No Comments
Wearing orange jumpsuits with black hoods, we knelt in silence on the steps of the Supreme Court to protest the seventh year that prisoners are being held in Guantánamo Bay without rights.
AlterNet, In These Times | October 1, 2007 |No Comments
The looting of natural resources, the destruction of ecosystems, and the poisoning and enslavement of people are the forgotten side-effects of cigarette smoking.
Huffington Post | August 20, 2007 |No Comments
Like much of America, even the small beach towns along the Jersey Shore are influenced by the presence of a military base.
