2010

1. Asia Inhales While the West Bans the Deadly Carcinogen
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   Asbestos, a known carcinogen banned in much of the world, is a common and dangerous building block in much of Asia’s development and construction boom. This white powder causes 100,000 occupational deaths per year, according to Medical News Today.
2. Banning of Books Alarms Freedom Advocates
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   First Published: 2010
   The confiscation and banning of books by Malaysian authorities is sending alarm bells ringing among activists, who want the repeal of laws that the government is using to suppress freedom of expression.
3. Calling Bono
   Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... in Graves and Prisons
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   Palestinians have been engaging in nonviolence for decades. The reality is that nonviolence is only as powerful as its visibility to the world.
4. Canadian Media in Crisis
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   How so-called "business journalism" is often biased and tends to give readers a distorted picture of the news.
5. Coal's Ruptured Landscape
   Navigating the Ruins of Appalachia
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   It is more apparent now than ever before that coal mining, especially mountain top removal, is unethical and inhumane. It displays stark irresponsibility in land stewardship as well as depraved practices within a diverse region. It’s time to shake off the flawed belief that we are reliant upon coal and other fossil fuels.
6. Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   A mini-paper would be incredibly inexpensive to publish. There would be no requirement for newsprint, a huge printing plant or large delivery system.
7. Creation of Sustainable Free Media Would Be Huge Breakthrough
   Part 4 of The Crisis in Canadian Media
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   Independent media organizations would approach news differently compared to the coverage provided by corporate-owned media.
8. The Dead End of Climate Justice
   How NGO Bureaucrats and Greenwashed Corporations are Turning Nature Into Investment Capital
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   The notion of climate debt, highlighted as the principle avenue of struggle for the climate justice movement, poses some large problems. Contemporary demands for reparations justified by the notion of climate debt open a dangerous door to increased green capitalist investment in the Global South. Everything from energy to agriculture, from cleaning products to electronics, and especially everything within the biosphere, is being incorporated into this regime of climate markets. One can only imagine the immense possibilities for speculation and financialization in these markets as the green bubble continues to grow.
9. Fifth Socialist International -- Time for definitions
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   Although in the past every international socialist organisation was founded amidst great debates and ideological confrontations, the motley crew of factions which all over the world today call themselves “left” shows an unprecedented degree of ideological confusion and political diversity. It will be a difficult job to bring them together, to give them structure and a route map.
10. For Israel, A Reckoning
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    First Published: 2010
    The farce of the climate change summit in Copenhagen affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity. It also illuminated a resistance growing perhaps as never before: an internationalism linking justice for the planet earth with universal human rights, and criminal justice for those who invade and dispossess with impunity.
11. Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
    Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    A group that launches, or even refocuses, an independent news media project – or raises money for just about any public-interest activity – will probably have success in fundraising if it does the proper research and targets a unique audience. It will need to demonstrate that it offers an important public service, such as providing in-depth coverage of local political, economic, and social issues not covered adequately by other media.
12. Gates of Delusion: Media Distortions and REAL Climate Scandals
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Climate-related storms in a teacup have been appearing in the corporate media almost on a daily basis. This nonsense is distracting attention from a mountain of evidence that human-induced climate change is accelerating and poses a deadly threat to civilisation.
13. Global Directory of Palestine Activist and Related Organizations
    Resource Type: Database
    First Published: 2010
    A listing of organizations working on Palestinian justice issues.
14. Haiti - The Broken Wing
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The courage and compassion of thousands of people willing to enter a chaotic disaster zone threatened with aftershocks are very real. Compassion arises out of a recognition that 'their' suffering is no different to 'my' suffering. Joining compassion with reason means asking why over 80 per cent of Haiti's population of 10 million people live in abject poverty. Why less than 45 per cent of all Haitians have access to potable water. Why the life expectancy rate in Haiti is only 53 years. Why seventy-six per cent of Haiti's children under the age of five are underweight, or suffer from stunted growth, with 63 per cent of Haitians undernourished.
15. Hard Core Green
    How to Kick Corporate Butt
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Two uncompromised green activists and writers completely focused on winning, and utterly void of bullshit.
16. Helping the occupation bloom: An open letter to Cargoflora
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Flowers from illegally occupied Palestinian land are being shipped to Europe.
17. How Alternative Media Provide The Crucial Critique Of The Mainstream
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The closeness of the mainstream to dominant economic, cultural and ideological forces means that the mainstream largely functions to promote the interests of the military/industrial/political complex. Yet within advanced capitalist economies, the contradictions and complexities of corporate media have provided certain spaces for progressive journalism.
18. Howard Zinn (1922-2010): In Lieu of Flowers, Organize
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Where other leftish icons have spent these decades gnashing their teeth, lecturing and bemoaning how awful everything that happens up above has been (as if most folks born down below didn't already know that by the time we were eight), Howard answered the call, again and again, to help us do something about it. He walked out to the picket lines every time he was called - by neighborhood organizers fighting against his university's real estate grabs, by striking workers that cleaned and fed the students and professors, by almost anyone who organized and fought that asked, and often before they asked, for his support.
19. Independent media advocates must develop creative news sites
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    First Published: 2010
    We should be able to come up with two or three practical models that can be used to set up sustainable news and information production and delivery systems.
20. Israel and apartheid: A fair comparison?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The comparison between Israel's policies toward the Palestinians and to apartheid is a legitimate part of that debate and this is an analogy frequently used by Israelis and also by South Africans.
21. Israel is an apartheid state and that is why they are losing legitimacy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Israel is losing legitimacy in the world because of what their government is doing to the Palestinians, not because of anti-semitism.
22. Israel's Apartheid
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Blacks in South Africa never faced a 20-foot wall dividing their communities. Palestinians' land is still being seized, their orchards bulldozed.
23. Israel's New Strategy: "Sabotage" And "Attack" The Global Justice Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Reut's analysis vindicates the effectiveness of the Boycot Divestment Sanctions strategy. As Israeli elites increasingly fear for the long-term prospects of the Zionist project they are likely to be more ruthless, unscrupulous and desperate than ever.
24. The Kidnapping Of Haiti
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Not for tourists is the US building its fifth-biggest embassy. Oil was found in Haiti's waters decades ago and the US has kept it in reserve until the Middle East begins to run dry. More urgently, an occupied Haiti has a strategic importance in Washington's "rollback" plans for Latin America. The goal is the overthrow of the popular democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, control of Venezuela's abundant petroleum reserves, and sabotage of the growing regional co-operation.
25. A Memory Of Howard
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    First Published: 2010
    A recollection of the late Howard Zinn.
26. Mitziton: A community in Chiapas resisting the government road
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    First Published: 2010
    
27. Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Khatib’s arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bil’in to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest since June 23rd, 2009. The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees – the leadership of the popular struggle – who are then charged with incitement when arrested.
28. The Myth of Muslim Conquest
    Less Threatening Than Imagined
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    First Published: 2010
    It’s easy to mistake the high visibility of Islam in the West for a massive return to piety in Muslim communities. But for the last 20 years religious observance has stagnated, even slightly waned.
29. New Hogtown Press
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
30. The New McCarthyism In Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a “McCarthyite” campaign against human-rights groups by blaming them for the barrage of international criticism that has followed Israel’s attack on Gaza a year ago, critics say.
31. Nuclear Deceit: The Times and Iran
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Is the Times engaged in reporting or propaganda in its coverage of Iran's nuclear program?
32. Presidential Assassinations Of US Citizens
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Just think about this for a minute. Barack Obama, like George Bush before him, has claimed the authority to order American citizens murdered based solely on the unverified, uncharged, unchecked claim that they are associated with Terrorism and pose "a continuing and imminent threat to U.S. persons and interests." They're entitled to no charges, no trial, no ability to contest the accusations.
33. Proposal for a Participatory Socialist International
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    A statement endorsing the idea of a new International.
34. Racism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    An overview of racism
35. Take Israel To International Criminal Court
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    It is imperative that the international community view the Israeli response to the Goldstone report as a blatant attempt to whitewash its crimes in Gaza, and refer the matter to the ICC without further delay. To do otherwise will only continue to encourage Israeli intransigence.
36. Temping Down Labor Rights: The Manpowerization of Mexico
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The continuing erosion of labour rights and labour standards in Mexico.
37. A Tribute To American People’s Historian - Howard Zinn
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    With the death of Howard Zinn there is no doubt that the anti-war and peace movement in the USA has lost one of its best activists and an honest historian.
38. Veolia's dirty business: The Tovlan landfill
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Ever since the first Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel in 2005, French multinational Veolia has been on campaigners' list of boycott targets. Corporate Watch has investigated the impact of Veolia’s Tovlan landfill on occupied land.