Monthly Archives: March 2011

JAPAN NUKE UPDATE

As of 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 29, 2011 — the 32nd anniversary of the nuclear power plant disaster at Three Mile Island …. Plutonium found in Japan’s soil. Radioactive water leaking into the ocean. “Partial” meltdown under way. Those who believe that nukes are the answer to global climate change Seek a technological fix To […]

REMEMBERING LEONARD WEINGLASS (August 27, 1933 – March 23, 2011)

Our friend and comrade — and one of my heroes — attorney Leonard Weinglass — died on March 23, 77 years old, of complications stemming from pancreatic cancer. Len Weinglass was a humble man and a great attorney. His life’s work was to support radical activists who were under attack by the system of injustice […]

UPDATES ON RADIATION REACHING THE U.S.

Alan in Sebastopol CA, who has been doing Geiger counts since the disaster in Japan began, has been posting his daily results at: Radiation Monitor Similar grassroots efforts are HERE and HERE. Here’s also the EPA’s map. For more information about the specific radioisotopes that have reached the Bay Area, check out the rainwater monitoring […]

END NUCLEAR POWER BEFORE IT ENDS US

by HARVEY WASSERMAN The Japanese people are now paying a horrific price for the impossible dream of the “Peaceful Atom.” For a half-century they have been told that what’s happening now at Fukushima would never occur. Our hearts and souls must first and foremost go out to them. As fellow humans, we must do everything […]

NUCLEAR RADIATION & THE DESTRUCTION OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

“In the generation of nuclear energy, manmade hazards seem unavoidable, but bankruptcy strikes us as a needless risk.” – Barron’s Weekly (the business magazine), summing up the experience of the near meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, March 21, 1981 “The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic […]

THOUGHTS ON “THE CAPITALIST INFESTO”

Marxists and the Ecological Dimension: Is Marx’s Critique of Science and Technology Radical Enough? By Mitchel Cohen FOR YEARS, AS I’VE BEEN ACTIVE IN SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVE­MENTS I’VE WORKED WITH PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES MARXISTS. I taught an underground course at Stony Brook for 16 years called “Marxism for Beginners”. And the group that I […]