ACTION ITEM BELOW TO THANK LARRY PAGE FOR JUST ACT The Internet giant isn’t waiting for Palestinians and Israelis to settle their differences. On the first of the month, without firing off a press release, Google changed its home page in Gaza and the West Bank from “Google: Palestinian Territories” to “Google: Palestine.” It turns…more »
Prior to the start of the Iraq War on March 19, 2003, New York Times journalist Chris Hedges (right) occupied a lonely perch among major media journalists. He opposed the war. Today, Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize winner and now a columnist for the website Truthdig, continues to write with the passion of a man set…more »
Forest Gets a Reprieve Thanks to a small group of Santa Cruz citizens, University plans to build on 270 acres of forest north of campus are on hold. The California State Court of Appeals has ruled that the City of Santa Cruz’s Environmental Impact Report for water service to the campus expansion is inadequate. The…more »
Photo by David Axe Bad news in the five-year-old U.S. proxy war against al-Qaida–allied Somali insurgents. Half of the U.S.-supplied weaponry that enables cash-strapped Ugandan and Burundian troops to fight Somalia’s al-Shabab terror group is winding up in al-Shabab’s hands. The kicker: It’s the cash-strapped Ugandans who are selling the weapons to the insurgents. This…more »
The 2011 NATO military intervention in Libya led to fears, even among dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s harshest African critics, that the resulting chaos would result in Libya’s vast storehouse of arms fueling local and regional conflicts elsewhere in Africa and destabilize the region. This is exactly what appears to have transpired in Mali, which, until recently,…more »
Action Petitioning University of California President Mark Yudof End Hate Speech, Sign the petition by UCSC Committee for Justice in Palestine, Santa Cruz, California. Hate Speech A video has surfaced, showing UC Santa Cruz Hebrew lecturer Tammi Rossman Benjamin making extremely offensive comments about the Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice in Palestine groups…more »
For decades, we have known that heavy metals and chemicals can cause grave physical harm. Going back to Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” we have known and been amply warned of the serious consequences of using or being exposed to these poisons in our daily activities. Thousands of these are well-documented carcinogens. Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Building…more »
Al Jazeera revisits Louisiana and finds shrimp without eyes, crabs without claws and a fishing industry in decline. Mutated Sea Life Shrimp without eyes, crabs without claws and a fishing industry in decline ~ two years after the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, scientists and fishermen tell Al Jazeera that its impact is becoming…more »
It is being called the largest indigenous mass mobilization in recent history. ‘Idle No More’ is an Indigenous Peoples Movement Spreading across N.America and the world with an urgent environmental and Human Rights message You may not have heard yet of the ‘Idle No More’ movement, but you will; it’s momentum has been steadily growing…more »
From my writing and activism over the past few weeks, some students have asked why I am so interested in the illegal American-Israeli occupation of Palestine. It seems as though it is weird for me to be concerned about the international human rights conflict in which I am most heavily implicated — both as an…more »
Oil Power & Empire: Iraq And The U.S. Global Agenda
By Larry Everest
Irreconcilable: The Story of the Palestinian and Israeli Future Visions Since 1967
By Matthew DeMaio
Petrochemical America
By Richard Misrach and Kate Orff
Time For Outrage: Indignez-vous!
By Stéphane Hessel
Death of the Liberal Class
By Chris Hedges
The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
By Chris Hedges
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
By Chris Hedges
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
By Chris Hedges
How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate
By Jeff Goodell
The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
By Peter Dale Scott
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By Naomi Klein
Silent Spring
By Rachel Carson
The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival
By Dr. Stephen R Palumbi PhD
The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine
By Miko Peled
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
By Dee Brown
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappé
An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land
William Stringfellow
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
By Albert Camus
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
Omar Barghouti
Power and Struggle (Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part 1)
Gene Sharp
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia
By David Vine
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
By Jonathan Glover
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
By Paul Farmer
The Seven Story Mountain: An Autobiography of Faith.
By Thomas Merton
Beyond The Green Zone: Dispatches From An Unembedded Journalist In Occupied Iraq
By Dahr Jamail
Forward by Amy Goodman
The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan
By Dahr Jamail
Forward by Chris Hedges
Empire of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle
By Chris Hedges
A People's History Of The United States: 1492-Present
By Howard Zinn
Blood And Oil: The Dangers And Consequences Of America's Growing Dependency On Imported Petroleum
By Michael T. Klare
The Goldstone Report: The Legacy Of The Landmark Investigation Of The Gaza Conflict
By Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, And Philip Weiss
Foreword By Desmond Tutu
Introduction By Naomi Klein
The Uterine Crisis
By IIya Sandra Perlin
