Agent Orange is Poisoning Vietnam

How Agent Orange is Poisoning Vietnam

In this print edition...

• Killing Me Softly: How Agent Orange Murders Vietnam's Children, by Kenneth J. Hermann
• Ain’t Gonna Study War: World Peace Forum 2006, by Joel Wendland
• Inside Job: Union Organizing Today, by Carl Lipscombe
• Behind the GOP Attack on Science, by David Zink
• Mary, Tool and Die Maker, by Beatrice Lumpkin
• A Man Who Would be King: Director Kevin Keating Talks About Giuliani Time
• Current Letters (updated 4-25-06)
• Current Poetry

The use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war violated a number of international conventions and related agreements. With full knowledge of its implications, its inhumane consequences and its insidious effects, the US government used the deadly poison dioxin.

Do we need another social forum-style gathering, with more meetings, seminars, workshops and plenary sessions? When it comes to the international struggle for peace, the answer is yes.

Within the labor movement “salting” refers to the strategy by which union organizers seek employment at a non union workplace with the aim of uncovering unfair and unlawful labor practices, gaining intelligence on the inner workings, garnering support for the labor union and ultimately organizing the workplace.

The destruction of environmental health is the symptom of a major social disease. The disease is capitalism; Bush, Cheney and company are its main infectious agents.

The alarm buzzed and Mary awoke with a start. It was 5:30, a dark winter morning. Mary was fast and well organized. Everything was planned so she could get to the bus stop by 6 a.m.