GST Original Articles

By Raymond Nat Turner / 24 July 2022
dial 9-1-1 singing the dispatcher this: “I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Akron…) “I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Brunswick…) “I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Cleveland…) Tell the cops, “He’s got a broken brake light…Treat it like a traffic stop!” “I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Ferguson…) “I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from Minneapolis–Saint Paul…) “I just called to say it’s a Black man” (from New Orleans…) Tell the cops... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 22 July 2022
greenland.jpg It rained for 9 hours at Summit Station, Greenland, 10,530’ elevation. Greenland is sending signals to coastal metropolises around the world that it’s never too early to start building seawalls. These are not mixed signals from the big ice island. Rather, they are straightforward signals indicative of rapid breakdown of average ice thickness of 5,000 feet sooner than ever thought possible.  Stating the obvious, it’s horrible news. In conjunction... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 19 July 2022
“With 35% loss globally since 1970, wetlands are our most threatened ecosystem, disappearing three times faster than forests. Wetlands’ services for climate mitigation, adaptation biodiversity, and human health outweigh all other terrestrial ecosystems.” (Source: Wetlands are Being Lost at Alarming Rates, Global Wetland Outlook, 2021)  Sudd is Africa’s largest freshwater wetland at roughly 3,500 square miles in an otherwise dry region of South Sudan. It’s under threat by a megaproject named... Read more
By Stan Cox / 14 July 2022
On Juneteenth weekend, tens of thousands of people walked up Pennsylvania Avenue toward the U.S. Capitol as part of the epically titled Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls. (Priti Gulati Cox and I traveled via Amtrak from Kansas to join in.) Although we were following the footsteps of a mob that had stormed the Capitol seventeen months earlier, this march embodied the polar opposite worldview. At the rally ending the march, Poor People’s... Read more

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