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Divestment and the American Political Tradition

From Dow to now.
by Michael Brenes via Warfare And Welfare on May 16, 2024
Campus police struggle with anti-war demonstrators in Berkeley, California 1967.
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The Protests That Anticipated the Gaza Solidarity Encampments

With the Dow sit-ins of the 1960s, students drew attention to links between the campus, war, and imperialism.
by Adam Tomasi via Made By History on May 10, 2024
Neighborhood residents stand in front of a 25th anniversary protest mural outside the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

The Worst Industrial Disaster in the History of the World

For the people of Old Bhopal, an accident there had sent forty metric tons of methyl isocyanate into a runaway reaction that released a toxic gas.
by Siddhartha Deb via The Baffler on October 28, 2014
C-123 “Provider” aircraft spray Agent Orange over Vietnam during Operation Ranch Hand, which took place between 1962 and 1971.

The People vs. Agent Orange Exposes a Mass Poisoning in Plain Sight

A new PBS documentary investigates the legacy of one of the most dangerous pollutants on the planet, an unsettling cover-up, and the fight for accountability.
by Jasper Craven via The New Republic on June 28, 2021
Greenpeace demonstrators opposing drilling.
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Liberal Activists Have to Think Broadly and Unite Across Lines

The forgotten environmental action that pointed the path forward for the left.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Made By History on March 11, 2020

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