MEDIA ROOTS — Judi Bari was an activist, a person of conscience, who exercised her First Amendment rights toward socioeconomic justice for much of her life. She was one of the leading organisers to popularise environmental activism with Earth First!, which influenced the environmental activism contributing to the historic 1999 WTO resistance in Seattle, as well as the more recent … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Residents in the Carroll Boone Water District (CBWD) of Arkansas might soon have fluoride removed from their water supply. According to Rene Fonseca, a licensed operator with CBWD, the corrosive additive has been proven to leach lead from aging distribution pipes which is likely causing increased lead contamination in the region’s water supply. Several other areas in … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – Several hundred psychologists, as well as numerous psychological associations around the country, are united in calling for the annulment of the American Psychological Association’s report on Psychological Ethics and National Security (PENS). The 2005 report is an APA endorsement of the highly suspect intelligence-gathering procedures used in US military detention sites such as Guantánamo Bay and Bagram, … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – Upon returning home from his second tour in Afghanistan, Lt. Colonel Daniel L. Davis unloaded several truths that exposed continued deception by multiple senior military officials. The 17-year Army veteran describes, in an 84-page “open-source” report, an increasingly bleak reality for soldiers while chronicling specific episodes of personal gain from top military leaders. “No one expects our … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – Today’s Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio addresses Ten Years of Guantánamo and the Evisceration of the Rule of Law. Joined in studio by investigative journalist Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files; Almerindo Ojeda, professor of linguistics and director of the Guantánamo Testimonials Project at University of California, Davis; and Pardiss Kebriaei, an attorney with the … Read More
