Stories by Kevin Danaher
is director of public education for Global Exchange, a non-profit educational group based in San Francisco which runs regular research trips to Cuba.
A conversation with Salt Lake City's super green mayor and advocate for Bush's impeachment.
Posted on Dec 11, 2007
Lois Gibbs, who put Love Canal on the map and ignited the movement against toxics, shares the secrets of organizing work learned on the fly.
Posted on Nov 29, 2007
Our current economic model has created nothing but poverty and pollution for the South Bronx. But the visionary folks there have a different model that will change all that.
Posted on Nov 20, 2007
We need to promote the globalization of mass movements and the globalization of sharing ideas so that communities can help each other achieve self-reliance.
Posted on Nov 13, 2007
When the system doesn't allow people to protect themselves from corporate harm to their communities, it is time to change the system.
Posted on Nov 6, 2007
Is it possible to get our power from local sources? Yes, and an interview with one expert explains how.
Posted on Oct 30, 2007
Civil rights leader and environmentalist Van Jones talks about suburban sprawl, race and the future of cities.
Posted on Oct 23, 2007
What do race and the environmental movement have to do with each other? Quite a lot, explains one environmental justice activist.
Posted on Oct 10, 2007
An interview with a leading food expert on the crisis of the America food system, the fallacy of labels and the organic vs. local conundrum.
Posted on Oct 1, 2007
One of the world's leading water experts explains how our local water supplies are threatened across North America and across the globe.
Posted on Sep 26, 2007
Can Americans retain their bad habits of overconsumption but simply switch to earth-friendly products? In truth, we are not going to spend our way out of a social and ecological crisis 500 years in the making.
Posted on Feb 20, 2007
Marla Ruzicka was a bright, shining light whose work focused on bringing some compassion into a war zone.
Posted on Apr 18, 2005
Two veteran corporate accountability activists explain how outsourcing the CEO -- wink, wink -- is best for everyone.
Posted on Apr 1, 2004
Free market ideology has come to mean that large transnational corporations can do only what's in their best interest. It's time to take back free enterprise and ensure the separation of corporations and the state.
Posted on Jan 14, 2004
By off-shoring high-tech and service jobs, American businesses are sowing the seeds of a populist backlash that could redraw the political map.
Posted on Dec 18, 2003
In a time of national division we can honor the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. by pondering his words on war and U.S. foreign policy.
Posted on Apr 4, 2003
Last month's worldwide anti-war protests made it clear that a new kind of globalization has emerged, with an emphasis on conscience instead of commerce.
Posted on Mar 6, 2003
A Congressional vote on whether to give the President "fast track" powers in trade negotiations could happen any day. For our safety in the terror war, Congress should vote no.
Posted on Dec 4, 2001
Building an alternative to economic globalization can be done. But it takes education and activism.
Posted on May 23, 2001
Globalization of market forces and other realities of the 20th century have greatly increased economic inequality in the world. Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange, offers five arguments for reforming the global economy
Posted on Apr 26, 2000
With pressure mounting for the U.S. government to drop its unilateral economic embargo against Cuba, conservatives will be tempted to buck the trend. After all, isnÕt this a perfect opportunity to kick one of the last communist countries while it is lying on the ground gasping for breath? But reviewing the social and political landscape of Cuba one finds a country with strong family values, a commitment to schools, little drug abuse, and very little street crime -- all good reasons for conservatives in the U.S. to like Cuba.
Posted on Apr 26, 2000
