Even though federal inspectors knew in the early afternoon of Wednesday, March 28 that the uranium core in the reactor at Three Mile Island (3MI) was seriously damaged, two days went by before news of the danger was made public.
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Niagara Falls is a small city in western New York state, a few miles from Buffalo. It is now known as the home of Love Canal, a former chemical dump, which was covered over with residential housing in the 1950s. Dark pools of foul, stinking chemicals seeping upward into the basements of homes were the first signs of...
In this issue we present an edited version of a pamphlet written by two SftP members in response to the Three Mile Island disaster in late March. We hope that this article will serve.as an organizing tool to help build a larger anti-nuclear movement. The article surveys the catastrophic potential, long-term health...
Remember the environmental movement? It actually began quite early with the publication of Silent Spring, in which Rachel Carson publicized the dramatic ecological consequences of the use and misuse of pesticides. But it did not gain any significant momentum until we realized that not only sparrows and condors were...
The People's Republic of China has received tremendous publicity during the last six months, and deservedly so. The Chinese have embarked on an extremely ambitious program of modernization of their entire society and they have begun to look more outward as they seek to import advanced, Western technology. There are...
Statements like: "the 'superbug' that last year destroyed $45 million worth of cotton is now attacking the nation's 42,000-acre supply of winter lettuce, destroying 10% to 20% of the early plantings'' and "It's threatening maybe 50% of the crop and if we don't get some kind of control, lettuce could go up to $2 a head"
Early in August, I accompanied a reporter to Northampton, Massachusetts to do a story on a community canning center. The Center consists of a one room extension of the Northampton Hall of records, a huge canning kit with accessories and three staff members. We decided to film the story line around the process of...
These interviews were conducted in February and March of 1979 by members of the Editorial Collective for this issue of the magazine.
The blatant use of food as a weapon of control and manipulation by US imperialism is surprisingly openly discussed by capitalists and their policy makers. In the words of Earl Butz, past US Secretary of Agriculture: "Food is a weapon. It is one of the principal tools in our negotiating kit."
If you drive through the New River Valley region of southwestern Virginia -the Virginia Highland-you will see as beautiful a land as you could ever imagine. A rural land, surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains on one side the Alleghenies on another, you'll see rolling hills and gentle valleys, forests on the steep...