A Love Letter to Eastern NC
Review of On the Swamp by Ryan Emanuel By Maya L. Kapoor As the planet grapples with the ever-starker consequences of climate change, a debut book by Lumbee citizen and Duke University scientist Ryan Emanuel…
Back Yard
Support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Commentary by Carl Hintz There are 12,512 nuclear warheads in the world today, most of them in the arsenals of Russia and the United States. China, Pakistan, India, France, the United Kingdom, Israel, and North…
Civil Resistance Works
Commentary by Lyle Adley-Warrick A myth-busting study by two political scientists proves it statistically and offers some insights into why it works. Their book, Why Civil Resistance Works, published in 2013 by Columbia University Press,…
Don’t Be Fooled by Gas Industry Lies
Commentary by Carl Hintz Terms like “blue hydrogen” and “bridge fuel” are used by the gas industry and electric utilities to obscure how disastrous methane is for the climate. So what is “blue hydrogen”? It’s…
‘Save the Forest’ Petition Surpasses 5K Signatures
By Joyner-Harris Forest Conservation WAKE FOREST, NC — A Change.org petition, spearheaded by long-time Wake Forest resident Angela DiPaolo, pleading with stakeholders to preserve the 68-acre forested parcel located on Harris Road directly across from…
Haw River Tribunal Puts a Pipeline on Trial
By Hannah Chanatry In a sunlight-filled conference center at the Haw River State Park in Guilford County, North Carolina, Russell Chisholm stood and clicked through a PowerPoint presentation with photographs of broken streambeds and construction…
United for a Fair Economy
Supporting Durham City Workers’ Campaign for Fair Pay By Jen Douglas Durham city workers organizing with UE150—a member group of the UFE-coordinated Raising Wages NC coalition —are out in the streets and testifying at City…
As Surgeons, We Have Never Seen Cruelty
Like Israel’s Genocide in Gaza By Feroze Sidhwa and Mark Perlmutter On March 25 the two of us, an orthopedic surgeon and a trauma surgeon, traveled to the Gaza Strip to work at Gaza European…
Tenants Organize State-Wide
By Greg Childress Two years ago, Crystal Towers residents in Winston-Salem successfully fought to prevent the sale of their public housing building, which is home to more than 200 low-income, elderly tenants. In Raleigh, Grosvenor…
NC Truck Workers Reach Deal with Daimler
By Jack Ewing The United Automobile Workers reached an 11th-hour deal on Friday, April 26 with Daimler Truck in North Carolina that gave workers 25 percent raises over the next four years and averted a…