Share & BookmarkIn a new book, Rick Rowden describes how International Monetary Fund policies impede the ability of poor countries to address their residents' health and educational needs.
In a new book, Rick Rowden describes how International Monetary Fund policies impede the ability of poor countries to address their residents' health and educational needs.
Nancy Langston, Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES Yale U. Press, 2010
The drug diethylstilbestrol, or DES, was approved for pregnant and menopausal women by the FDA, even though researchers knew it caused cancer, with horrific results. It was also given to most American livestock for decades, making its way into our soil, lakes, and rivers. Environmental historian Nancy Langston asks whether we have learned the lessons of DES, given the tens of thousands of hormone-disrupting synthetic chemicals permeating our bodies and the natural environment today.
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Parrish & Bond-Graham, "Richard Blum: The Man Behind California's 'Developing Economy'" Anderson Valley Advertiser
Bond-Graham, Robinson & Parrish, "California's Nuclear Nexus" ZNet
Bond-Graham, Parrish & Robinson, "Full-Court Press" ZNet
The University of California hikes student fees and downsizes. The economic model promoted by the IMF, the World Bank, and the US Treasury leaves millions at the mercy of huge corporations. Is there a connection? Will Parrish sought an answer by way of an investigation into Richard Blum, UC Regent, business tycoon, and husband of California Senator Diane Feinstein.
Daniel Geary, Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought UC Press, 2009
C. Wright Mills liked to think big. His analyses of power elites, white collar workplaces, the Cuban Revolution, and potential sources of radical social transformation were influential with thinkers, activists, and concerned citizens in many parts of the globe. Daniel Geary describes Mills's ideas and their impact on a number of social movements, especially the New Left.
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness New Press, 2010
While racial justice advocates focus on affirmative action, millions of African Americans have lost their basic civil rights -- the right to vote, to have access to housing and education -- through the penal system. In a powerful new book, litigator Michelle Alexander argues that the mass incarceration of people of color in this country is a system of social control, similar to Jim Crow segregation, and that a widespread movement is needed to overturn it.