The near-disaster at Three Mile Island on March 28 riveted world attention onto the hornet’s nest of nuclear energy production. As a reactor in the plant spilled 250,000 gallons of… Read more »
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Farmworkers: ¡Viva la Huelga!
Farmworker militance, cultivated through decades of back breaking toil, poverty and discrimination, has scored major victories for the United Farm Workers Union in the Salinas and Imperial valleys of California…. Read more »
Cowboy Reagan rides a Trojan horse
Not since the Nixon years has Washington, D.C. glittered so brightly with the diamonds, furs and tuxedos of the visibly rich. The Republicans are back, and with them comes the… Read more »
Survivors, by Karen Brodine
Survivors. Reading about the glow boys this morning. The unemployed enticed with $60 to fix the core of the nuclear plant. In space suits they jump down into it. Acid… Read more »
Jobs vs. ecology: A dilemma manufactured by the profit system
Two endangered species of the Pacific Northwest are front-page news these days — the northern spotted owl and the logger. Portrayed as irreconcilable antagonists, they are in fact ecological kin,… Read more »
COINTELPRO’S latest victims: radical environmentalists
On May 24, 1990, Earth First!ers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were driving in Oakland, California when a pipe bomb exploded in their car and sent the two activists to… Read more »
A logger’s outlook
Steve Goodman has felled trees in the Pacific Northwest for 20 years, mostly for small independent outfits. It is a job he loves—and is leaving. He is convinced that time… Read more »
Jobs vs. ecology: A dilemma manufactured by the profit system
Part One of “Jobs vs. Ecology” discussed the debate over the spotted owl, the state of the forests, and the corporate timber barons. This concluding installment looks at conditions for… Read more »
Dateline Australia — Governments fiddle while ozone shrinks and weather wobbles
“I love a sunburnt country,” begins an Australian patriotic poem. The words are more apt than the poet knew. Since the early 1980s Australians have been exhorted to “slip on… Read more »
Keeping the lights on: a matter of public power
“That man may use it freely as the air he breathes, the waters of the rivers, the winds of heaven.” Those words, embossed on a beautiful mosaic at the headquarters… Read more »
Black History Month
Words into Action
Join us for events celebrating the publication of two new titles from Red Letter Press: “Which Way Forward for the Black Lives Matter Movement?” and “A Revolutionary Call for Black Reparations.”
February 11:
New York City SeattleFebruary 19:
San Francisco Los Angeles