War on Terrors
It doesn’t take violence, or even the threat of violence, to get on a government watch list. This fall, the Inspector General of the US Department of Justice released a study that found a number of...
View ArticleA tactic is a tactic
Greenpeace is innovating new tactics, an excellent piece by Kim Murphy in the weekend LA Times reports, developing a style of performance that is a departure from blocking whalers in port. We’ll come...
View ArticleLucy Lawless protests Arctic oil drilling: Her courage will change the world
Without sword or chakram, actor Lucy Lawless occupied the Noble Explorer, an oil-drilling ship docked in Auckland last February. With seven other Greenpeace activists, she tried to stop the ship from...
View ArticleDo you believe in science?
The image above is from the Heartland Institute, an advocacy group which receives funding from a number of conservative sources (Scaife, Olin, Koch, for example) to promote doubts about climate change,...
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