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Fitz: The False Promise of Energy Efficiency and a Real Alternative
Znet Article, August, 21 2009
Don Fitz
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An action can have opposite effects, depending on it s social contexts. An isolated individual who protests company policy by refusing to go to work could well get fired and become an example used to intimidate others. When an entire workforce sta...
Fitz: Health Care Foes Start Violent Fray in St. Louis
Znet Article, August, 13 2009
Don Fitz
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Did you hear about the town hall meeting in St. Louis where union thugs attacked a black conservative and sent him to the hospital with multiple injuries?
Fitz: The Most Important Environmental Demand: Less Work
Znet Article, July, 16 2009
Don Fitz
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A shorter work week should enter into every discussion to protect the environment. Advocating fewer hours of work is core to both (a) everyday organizing to stop environmental abuse, and (b) imagining an ecological society. These are several rea...
Fitz: We Can Produce Less and Consume More
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Don Fitz
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A major gulf between environmental and social justice activists is “stuff.†Environmentalists (or at least serious ones) say “less.†Social justice organizers have the habit of saying “more.â€
Fitz: What's Wrong with a 30-Hour Work Week?
Zmag Article, July, 01 2009
Don Fitz
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Cutting back work time for leisure and the planet
Fitz: What's Wrong with a 30-Hour Work Week?
Znet Article, June, 12 2009
Don Fitz
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With millions of jobs lost during the first part of 2009, who is calling for a shorter work week to spread the work around? Not the Republicans. Not even the Democrats. But why is there nary a peep from unions?
Fitz: Green Party Mayoral Candidate's Van Is Firebombed!
Znet Article, April, 02 2009
Don Fitz
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The election for mayor of St. Louis is only a few days away: April 7. The first big face-off between sitting Mayor Francis Slay, Green Party challenger Rev. Elston K. McCowan, and “independent†Maida Coleman was Sunday, March 29.
Fitz: The Best Way to Protect Jobs in Auto Is To Stop Making Cars
Znet Article, March, 01 2009
Don Fitz
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Social unionism is most needed in times of crisis. Auto is truly in crisis. According to the February 14, 2009 Wall Street Journal, car sales have dropped to a 30 year low.
Fitz: Lead Poisoning: Clean Air Vs. the EPA
Zmag Article, October, 01 2008
Don Fitz
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Don Fitz on the EPA's inadequate response to connections between lead, cancer, and violence.
Fitz: Defending Industry’s Right to Poison
Znet Article, June, 19 2008
Don Fitz
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At the same time that new research is confirming the powerful influence childhood lead poisoning has on violent crime and learning ability, industry has argued that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should do away with standards limitin...
Fitz: Car-Sharing: Transportation Solution or Eco-Hoax?
Znet Article, March, 04 2008
Don Fitz
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In cities across the US, people are hearing of new car-sharing programs that let subscribers drive cars for a few hours during the day. It’s promoted as a way to reduce toxins and CO2 emissions by allowing drivers to leave their cars at home, tak...
Fitz: Civil Rights Movement Gets Real
Znet Article, January, 23 2008
Don Fitz
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As the mayor approached the MLK Day podium the boos were so loud that the moderator stepped up to ask the crowd to let him speak. Over 500 people began chanting "Slay Must Go!" as dozens waved signs saying "End Racial Division - Recall Francis Sl...
Fitz: St. Louisans Rally to Dump Racially Divisive Mayor
Znet Article, October, 25 2007
Don Fitz
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The contemptuous demotion of a fire chief ignited unified opposition in St. Louis' Black community. Previously fragmented groups have pulled together whether their focus has been on police violence, employment opportunities, school closings, emin...
Fitz: 10 Steps to Seriously Reducing Traffic
Znet Article, August, 08 2007
Don Fitz
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When investigations are completed for the collapse of the I35W bridge in Minneapolis, will they have any idea that the same factors which underlie a host of environmental problems could be related to the August 1 disaster? Will they even ask if t...
Fitz: When Building Green Ain't so Green
Znet Article, July, 06 2007
Don Fitz
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When Building Green Ain't so Green
Fitz: What's Possible in the Military Sector?
Znet Article, April, 30 2007
Don Fitz
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The military is the only sector of the economy where emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) can be reduced by greater than 100%. This is because militarism is the only type of activity whose primary purpose is destruction.
Fitz: The Biotech Industry And Repression In St. Louis
Znet Article, June, 24 2003
Don Fitz
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[Note. The May 2003 Biodevastation 7 Gathering was the first international conference critical of genetic engineering which zoomed in on connections between environmental racism and the biotechnology industry. It was scheduled to occur immediately...
Fitz: World Challenges GMOs
Zmag Article, May, 01 2003
Don Fitz
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F or decades, biologists have known that a gene can be removed from a cell, modified, and reinserted into the same cell or a different cell from another species or even the other ...
Fitz: Who Should Nominate Political Candidates?
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Don Fitz
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Who Should Nominate Political Candidates?
