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Videoby Michelle Chen on November 19 2009, 7:10AM
Greenpeace has earned a reputation as the quintessential radical environmental group, facing down oil tankers and crusading against nuclear plants. Today, the organization’s new executive director, a veteran of racial justice struggles in Africa, is tipping the group’s focus…
Topics: Environment, Global Affairs
What’s Fallen Since the Berlin Wall?
by Tammy Johnson on November 9 2009, 3:16PM
I can’t believe that it’s been twenty years. I was a student at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, when Doug came bouncing across the student union concourse screaming, “The wall is down! The Berlin Wall is down!” Back then,…
Topics: Global Affairs
Obama Should Have Turned It Down
by Rinku Sen on October 9 2009, 10:31AM
Obama’s winning the Nobel Peace Prize reminds me of this clothing commercial in which a man whose face you can’t see is at an interview or on a date. He’s told that he has horrible work history or got…
Topics: Global Affairs
Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize [VIDEO]
by Julianne Hing on October 9 2009, 9:26AM
From the NY Times: President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” a stunning honor that came less than nine months after he made United…
Topics: Global Affairs, Video & Multimedia
At the G-20, Real Solutions Off the Table; Accidental American Shows the Way
by Debayani Kar on September 24 2009, 11:43AM
Today and tomorrow, leaders of the Group of 20 Nations, or G-20, are meeting in Pittsburgh for the latest in a series of meetings intended to address the global economic crisis. The global recession has shifted the nature of…
Topics: Global Affairs
The War Over Drugs in Central America and Washington
by Michelle Chen on August 27 2009, 5:58PM
One of the first signs that Obama’s healthcare reform efforts were headed southward was the backdoor deal the White House struck with the pharmaceutical industry earlier this summer. Big Pharma’s promise to help “save” Americans $80 billion under the…
Topics: Global Affairs, Health
Shah Rukh Khan: Bollywood Border Stop
by Guest Columnist on August 17 2009, 8:58AM
Written by: Deepa Iyer, Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) The Shah Rukh Khan incident at Newark International Airport over the weekend has elicited a range of viewpoints and opinions. Shah Rukh Khan, a famous Bollywood…
Topics: Global Affairs
White Woman’s Burden in Afghanistan?
by Michelle Chen on August 13 2009, 6:07PM
Right now, two women in Afghanistan are running for president. That’s two more female candidates than America’s political mainstream could claim last Fall. But these ladies are up against some horrific odds: in seeking public office, they expose themselves…
Topics: Global Affairs
BREAKING: Imprisoned American Journalists Freed after Clinton Visit
by Cindy Von Quednow on August 4 2009, 12:44PM
Laura Ling and Euna Lee have been pardoned! That’s right the two Current TV reporters who were captured in North Korea in March and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor were officially released and pardoned this afternoon after…
Topics: Global Affairs
TheGrio.com on the Obamas in Africa
by Channing Kennedy on July 10 2009, 6:34PM
Hours ago, the First Family arrived in Accra, Ghana, on their way home from events in Russia and Italy. MSNBC’s theGrio.com has been covering the Ghanaian anticipation to this historic visit, and the politics around it, with their massive Obamas…
Topics: Global Affairs
Iran vs. Honduras: The Hypocrisy of the Mainstream Media
by Guest Columnist on July 3 2009, 11:24AM
Written by: Elsadig Elsheikh, Research Associate with the International Program at The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity On Sunday, June 28th, major media news outlets were still occupied with the topic of Iran’s sham election results,…
Topics: Global Affairs
5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Help Honduras Fight for Justice
by Cindy Von Quednow on July 1 2009, 2:41PM
In a throwback to the political upheaval and unrest of the 1980s, the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted by the military and flown to Costa Rica on Sunday. Coverage of Iran’s rigged election has dominated…
Topics: Global Affairs
South Africa Isn’t Post-Racial Either
by Daisy Hernandez on June 24 2009, 2:25PM
Bob Jensen’s new essay at ColorLines.com looks at how whites in the U.S. and South Africa are having the same conversations about race. He includes great snippets from the book I Write What I Like, which collects the writings…
Topics: Global Affairs
Dole Goes Bananas Over Documentary on Nicaraguan Worker Abuse
by Channing Kennedy on June 16 2009, 4:36PM
BANANAS!* trailer from WG Film on Vimeo. Two years ago, twelve Nicaraguan banana plantation workers traveled to Los Angeles and sued Dole Food Co. Inc. They won $1.58 million. The crime? Continued use of the pesticide dibromochloropropane (DBCP), which…
Topics: Global Affairs, Health
Uighur Release Debunks Racist Right-Wing Narrative
by Cindy Von Quednow on June 16 2009, 12:50PM
Photo: Justin Maxon/The New York Times Last Sunday, The New York Times printed a pleasant piece on the new lives of four recently released Uighur prisoners in Bermuda, debunked the conservative rhetoric around them as “dangerous terrorists.” The Uighurs’…
Topics: Global Affairs
Iranian Protests Over Ahmedinejad’s Dubious “Landslide” Met With Violence
by Channing Kennedy on June 13 2009, 9:49AM
I woke up this morning anxious to check the results of the Iranian elections, in no small part because I’m a politics nerd, but also because I’ve been so moved by the photos coming out of Tehran of Mousavi’s…
Topics: Global Affairs
by Michelle Chen on June 12 2009, 11:07PM
After about three decades behind bars, a Puerto Rican revolutionary might soon be free at last. A generation ago, Carlos Alberto Torres was part of a major movement for human rights and self-determination for Puerto Rico. Driven by the…
Topics: Global Affairs
by Michelle Chen on June 11 2009, 10:03PM
Using the word “apartheid” to describe the Israel-Palestine issue is a sure way to ignite more acrimony over human rights under the occupation. But, with language being inseparable from the politics of the region, is it accurate? According to…
Topics: Global Affairs
Oil crisis: uprisings from Nigeria to Peru
by Michelle Chen on June 11 2009, 4:02PM
In the past few days, the wars over the world’s natural resources have been rekindled from the Amazon to the Niger Delta. This week, a landmark legal settlement brought a decisive, though partial, end to a bloody chapter in…
Topics: Global Affairs
Four Women Journalists, One Goal
by Guest Columnist on June 10 2009, 2:44PM
by Cindy Von Quednow They all come from different backgrounds and beliefs, but all of them have a few things in common: they are women of color, they are journalists and they have been imprisoned in a foreign country…
Topics: Global Affairs
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