Rethinking Coal (Multimedia)
By Rebecca Carroll for
Chuck Nelson mined coal seams deep below the Appalachian hills of Boone County, West Virginia, for nearly 30 years before dark powder and chemical particulates drove him from his home – and to the other side of the contentious coal debate.
“Whenever the wind would blow, it would bring big clouds of [...]
Ilısu Dam Activist Arrested
While I was in SE Turkey, I befriended a young activist, Ipek Tasli, pictured above, who is working against the Ilisu Dam project. Below is a press release from the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) about her recent arrest.
KHRP is deeply concerned about the arrest of Ipek Tasli, a joint coordinator with the Keep Hasankeyf [...]
EUFOR in the Chadian Theatre
by Anne Holmes
When the sun comes up in eastern Chad, the dawn of a new day brings with it a host of daunting challenges. Soon the temperatures will rise to 50 degrees Celsius. A patch of shade will be the only mercy one can find in these parts, and the quest for resources will dictate [...]
Notes on the Darfur Refugee Crisis
Camp Iridimi, Eastern Chad
I spent a month wandering around eastern Chad, along the border with Sudan, where some 250,000 Darfuris fled a genocidal conflict to settle in massive refugee camps tended to by the UNHCR and a complex sub-network of international and local aid agencies. It has been more than four years now since the [...]
