Portland, Ore., where I live and work, is known for lifestyle niches such as veganism, raw foodism, friendly bike and pedestrian culture, pirate festivals, and zoo bombers. It’s one of… Read more »
environment
Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas endangers water, atmosphere, and lives
Imagine holding a lit match to the water streaming from your kitchen faucet and seeing flames shoot out. This sci-fi scenario is actually happening in rural homes in Colorado and… Read more »
Freedom Socialist: Letters to the editor
LIFESTYLE POLITICS Assuaging racism I was incredibly overjoyed at the truth in your article on lifestyle politics, ideology, good intentions, and radical activism [Lifestyle politics, good intentions and the road… Read more »
The Latest: Updates on causes and controversies
FBI widens witch-hunt Following the September raids on anti-war and solidarity activists, many of them socialists and labor organizers, awareness and anger are now building as the FBI and Obama… Read more »
FS Editorial: In Japan’s tragedy, a terrible reminder
The devastating 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan on March 11 was the largest in the country’s recorded history. Prime Minister Naoto Kan called the earthquake and accompanying tsunami the greatest… Read more »
The view from Japan: Anatomy of a nuclear disaster
While the attention of the world shifts elsewhere, the unfolding crisis in Japan just keeps getting horribly worse — including the plight of people displaced, sickened, and threatened by the… Read more »
Obama and the bipartisan political pack: front men for the deadly nuclear industry
The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant resulting from the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 has once again focused attention on the dangers of… Read more »
Youth in the lead for climate sanity
In April, 10,000 young people converged on Washington, D.C., for the third Power Shift conference, a national summit of youth activists for the environment held every two years. The mood… Read more »
Violent weather and the unnatural causes of climate change
2010 tied with 2005 as the hottest year ever recorded, the latest in a string of record-breaking years. It’s not just temperatures on the increase, however, but wild weather of… Read more »
Tea Party millionaires in Congress: throwing the welfare of ordinary people under the bus
The Tea Party claims to be a spontaneous, grass-roots phenomenon. Their “stars” in Congress pose as down-home folks swept into office by “we the people,” who are supposedly fed up… Read more »
