Posts of: Jay Taber

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Shining a Light Nicolas Dot-Pouillard examines the Anti-American, Anti-Israeli, Christian-Islamist alliance in Lebanon, and its potential for redefining national interests in the Middle East. Making sense of the multiplicity of…

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Later this month, I’ll be visiting Sacajawea State Park, at the confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers in Washington state, to see the memorial designed by Maya Lin and…

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Tom Goldtooth of Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) was interviewed on Democracy Now this week. As Congress was busy making pollution deals with coal and oil lobbyists, IEN was busy at…

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Carbon Trading Fraud As the San Francisco Chronicle explains, the newly-enacted climate change law in the US actually increases pollution while promoting fraudulent carbon trading budget scams. Sounds like the…

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Survival of Ogoni The case against Shell went to court in New York yesterday. Watch the video to learn more about the survival of Ogoni people.

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In reference to creating consciousness, storytellers, like other artists, play host to wonders of the imagination. (Jay Taber is a writer and storyteller in San Francisco.)

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Memory of the World UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme aims at preservation and dissemination of valuable archive holdings and library collections worldwide. Documentary heritage reflects the diversity of languages,…

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I recently had a chance to observe firsthand how knowledge is passed on between old and young professionals in the hospital. Older nurses shadowing younger ones with tips on care,…

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An Underground Existence In this article, my colleague Chip Berlet argues that self-identified progressives within the Democratic party are strategically ignorant about what is at stake in battling bigotry in…

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The Irish have a name for the formal process of coming together for a common purpose. But Meitheal is more than a collaboration; it is a traditional method of accomplishing…