2005-2006

Assessing the state of the World Social Forum after five years.

The fiction of Wendell Berry.

Supporting ‘clean clothes’ campaigns to end the exploitative labour practices that pervade the textile industry is not as simple as just picking the ‘right’ brand to buy.

The Church of Stop Shopping hits the road.

A review of Rebecca Solnit’s Field Guide to Getting Lost.

An interview on “To The Point” with Warren Olney on KCRW Los Angeles. Distributed by Public Radio International. (29 minutes)

In the wake of the natural disaster, the real need is to go beyond a freeze on payments and to promote debt cancellation for impoverished countries.

With a White House that uses El Salvador as a model for Iraq, we still have much to learn from the assassination of Archbishop Romero twenty-five years ago.

The departed Pope’s vision of an alternative globalization should challenge narrow debate about “moral values.”

How 100% debt cancellation for poor countries—now being debated by wealthy nations—was transformed from an implausible demand into a winning issue, and what barriers lie ahead for the debt relief …