Industrious endeavors in the former Soviet empire. Sign up to get free environmental news updates by email. Wash. I n the USA today, according to USA Today, the holiday shopping season opened with a 6.4 percent jump in sales from last year. The Labor Department reported that personal income rose at the fastest pace in more than five years last month. The Exxon-Mobil merger is set to win government approval.
Sea turtles stick their necks out in the Seattle streets.
Photo by Lisa Hymas. Four years ago, Sierra Club Books published an anthology of essays edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith, The Case Against the Global Economy, and For a Turn Toward the Local . If you can track it down, find a copy of the Port Huron Statement , the manifesto cobbled together by Tom Hayden and a few others at a Michigan meeting that marked the dawn of the New Left in the early 1960s. And if you read Hayden et al, then you'll have some sense of where the anti-globalization movement comes from, for it's not so different. Enviros and labor are in union at a protest.