From the beginning, Indian culture of the Pacific Northwest derived from a fishing-centered way of life. This culture is being systematically relegated to oblivion. Greedy corporations, assisted by the government,… Read more »
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Labor and Environmentalists: A significant dialogue
A powerful fight can be waged to insure the safety of all life when labor and environmentalists work together to make big business clean up the workplace and the world… Read more »
Alaska: where the natural people and the natural resources face extinction
Last summer, four Native Alaskan men, ages 67 to 98, were arrested by Alaskan Fish & Game wardens for attempted salmon fishing on the Copper River. The fishermen were seeking… Read more »
The energy crisis: Blackmail at the gas pumps
In California, the lines of customers waiting for gasoline stretch for miles. The price of petroleum products rises almost daily. And the giant oil corporations, pretending helplessness over the phony… Read more »
The great nuclear reaction
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 »
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 »
