Stories by Geov Parrish
Geov Parrish is a Seattle-based columnist and reporter for Seattle Weekly, In These Times and Eat the State! He writes the Straight Shot column for WorkingForChange.
Posted on Nov 28, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The National Parks Service is considering a proposal to allow private companies to own the genetic resources of plants and animals in our parks.
Posted on Jul 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet
This summer, the Bush-appointed National Labor Relations Board may vote to destroy the union memberships of millions of Americans.
Posted on Jan 16, 2006, Source: AlterNet
MLK Jr. is a legend not because he believed in diversity but because he took risks and spoke truth to power.
Posted on Jan 14, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The acclaimed critic of U.S. foreign policy analyzes Bush's current political troubles, the war on Iraq, and what's really behind the global 'war on terror.'
Posted on Dec 27, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The 10th annual list of the year's most overhyped and underreported stories.
Posted on Dec 20, 2005, Source: AlterNet
It's a sordid tale of Washington corruption and crony capitalism at its worst. Here's a primer to help you understand this growing scandal.
Posted on Sep 22, 2004, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Be it out of political expediency or sheer delusion, George Bush is stubbornly clinging to his head-in-the-sand vision of Iraq.
Posted on May 6, 2004, Source: WorkingForChange.com
What is now widely viewed as a sentimental tribute to family -- Mother's Day -- was originally a call for women to wage a general strike to end war.
Posted on Mar 25, 2004, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The reigning octogenarian queen of the D.C. press corps speaks her mind on the Bush White House and the media.
Posted on Jan 19, 2004, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Were Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. alive today, he would be at risk for being imprisoned indefinitely, without charges or access to legal counsel, as an 'enemy combatant.'
Posted on Jan 4, 2004, Source: WorkingForChange.com
They told us they'd lie to us. They were telling the truth. Witness our annual list of the year's most overhyped, underreported and misreported stories.
Posted on Dec 26, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Despite rising conflict worldwide, peace is closer than you think; if we’re willing, much of the rest of the world is ready.
Posted on Dec 19, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
A federal appeals court ruling rejects the detention without charges of American citizen Jose Padilla as an 'enemy combatant.'
Posted on Dec 8, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
How to slow the planet's human-caused changes is an issue that transcend borders, domestic economies, and the stubbornness of one or another elected official.
Posted on Nov 24, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The War On Drugs is a failure, irrational and has served as a pretext for a vast expansion of intrusive state powers.
Posted on Nov 21, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Headlines only hint at problems and challenges facing American occupation of Iraq.
Posted on Nov 4, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
On the Democratic presidential hopefuls' plans -- or lack of them -- for Iraq
Posted on Aug 26, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Like it or not, California has a solid record as a cultural trendsetter for the nation. That's why the recall vote is a matter of national importance.
Posted on Jul 22, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
A congressional study that shows low power stations pose little or no threat to existing radio broadcasters.
Posted on Jul 17, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
All current evidence suggests that the world is now being run by 7-year-olds -- the Bush bunch. They stay at home, watch TV and play army all day.
Posted on Jul 10, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Michael Savage's departure from MSNBC is unlikely to dent his popularity or the power of hate radio.
Posted on Jun 3, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The FCC vote lays the foundations for a monoculture of ignorance that offers unimaginable power to our leaders and corporations.
Posted on May 12, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Jonathan Schell on nonviolent people power, Chris Hedges on war addiction and a collection documenting the American prison gulag would be welcome additions to any book bag.
Posted on May 5, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
A new report has evidence that children under 16 are being held at Guantanamo Bay.
Posted on Apr 23, 2003, Source: AlterNet
SARS is providing a glimpse into our new century -- not just how epidemics will leap continents, but how no country's leaders, even China's, will be able to either control their economy or their people.
Posted on Apr 9, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
There is no more critical task in the coming months than to oust George W. Bush, and the lunatics surrounding him, from the White House.
Posted on Apr 1, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The Pax Americana that Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, and their ilk envisioned for Iraq -- and eventually the whole region -- simply cannot be achieved through brute force alone.
Posted on Mar 28, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Is the antiwar movement in danger of becoming marginalized by its own over-the-top rhetoric? It's time for activists to speak with the audience, not to each other.
Posted on Mar 19, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Those struggling against this war are part of a long-term movement for change and we must retain hope and courage even when the political tides seemed to run against us.
Posted on Mar 14, 2003, Source: AlterNet
It matters: Ongoing global protests may not stop the war on Iraq, but they continue to strongly challenge the imperial ambitions of the Bush gang.
Posted on Mar 13, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
A handy reference guide to some of the new linguistic developments introduced by the planned U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Posted on Mar 13, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The popular outcry at a public hearing on ownership rules held in Seattle reflects the increasing strength of the media diversity movement.
Posted on Feb 14, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Spokane Indian poet and filmmaker Sherman Alexie was front and center at a Seattle antiwar demonstration on Saturday.
Posted on Feb 6, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Colin Powell's presentation contained compelling evidence of Iraqi deception, but it did not make the case for choosing war over inspections.
Posted on Feb 3, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The president's new federal budget is the stuff from which shuttle crashes, social insecurity, and bloated federal deficits are made.
Posted on Jan 28, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Tonight Bush delivers his long-awaited Comprehensive Case to the American People as to Why We Should Kick Saddam's Fanny.
Posted on Jan 27, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Ever expanding "faith-based" initiatives are a threat to both church and state.
Posted on Jan 13, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Bravo to Gov. George Ryan for stopping over 150 executions. What took him so long?
Posted on Jan 2, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The most overhyped and underreported stories of the year served as disinformation and propaganda for the war on terrorism.
Posted on Dec 18, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Can we please start paying attention to the despicable things powerful people do, rather than the despicable things they say?
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