This is an incomplete archive of stories I published prior to establishing this web site in October 2016. You can find more articles I’ve written in the Recent Articles section, and by browsing the archives of publications for which I’ve written. This page is sorted into topics I have commonly written about.
Climate Change
- Capped Out, August 4, 2016, Sacramento News and Review
- Beyond Cap-and-Trade: Many Environmentalists Say California Will Have Fewer Emissions and Better Policy if it Reduces Emissions at Source, July 20, 2016, East Bay Express
- Stopping a Climate Change and Pollution Nightmare in the East Bay, June 28, 2016, East Bay Express
- Crude Awakening: a new air district rule might prevent increased Canadian tar sands production in the Bay Area, June 8, 2016, North Bay Bohemian
- Cap and Clear-Cut, Jan. 20, 2016, East Bay Express
- Mendo and Humboldt Dominate California Forest Offsets, June 24, 2015, AVA
- The Lumber Man in Charge of Climate Policy, Feb. 7, 2015, East Bay Express
- Fracking on the North Coast, March 12, 2014, AVA
Indigenous Struggles
- Sacred Ground: Graton Rancheria helps restore Tolay Lake’s place in American Indian Past — and Present, Feb. 10, 2016, North Bay Bohemian
- California Natives Oppose Canonization of Junipero Serra, September 16, 2015, East Bay Express
- Water Transfers Threaten Fish and Tribes, March 25, 2015, East Bay Express
- Protecting Ohlone Heritage, March 4, 2015, East Bay Express
- Impending Fish Disaster in the Klamath-Trinity, November 19, 2014, AVA
- Fire & Water Out of Balance, Sept. 24, 2014, AVA
- Mendo’s Black Mesa Caravan, Jan. 1, 2014, AVA
- Caltrans’ Desecration of Yami, October 1, 2013, AVA
- The Struggles of Local Sacred Sites, Oct. 17, 2012, AVA
- Purges In Indian Country: The Disenrollment of Clayton Duncan, Sept. 13, 2012, Counterpunch
- A Travesty of A Mockery of a Sham, February 22, 2012, AVA
- Cultural Genocide in Lake County, CA, Dec. 19, 2011, Counterpunch
- A Day of Infamy in Lakeport, Sept. 21, 2011, AVA
- The Struggle for Rattlesnake Island, Aug. 26, 2011, Counterpunch
- People Who Belong To The Land, July 7, 2011, AVA
Water
- Logging for Water, August 2016, East Bay Monthly
- Proposed Dam Sparks Government Fight, Feb. 3, 2016, East Bay Express
- Damning California’s Future, Oct. 21, 2015, East Bay Express
- Coho v. Pinot, Sept. 2, 2015, North Bay Bohemian
- Flowing Uphill to Money? California Water Politics in a Time of Drought, Aug. 5, 2015, The Ecologist/Counterpunch/East Bay Express
- Turning Water Into Wine, May 27, 2015, East Bay Express
- Too Many Straws in the Russian, May 13, 2015, AVA
- Who Impairs Clear Lake?, November 5, 2014, AVA
- California’s North Coast Water Relics, Oct. 15, 2014, AVA
- Clear Lake’s (and the World’s) Algae Problem, Oct. 8, 2014, AVA
- The Politics of the World’s Most Hydrologically Altered Landmass, June 9, 2014, Counterpunch
- California’s Water Pathology, March 5, 2014, AVA
Forests
- North Coast Timber Conflict Flares Up, Again, July 27, 2016, North Bay Bohemian
- MRC’s Back-Room Cover Crops, June 1, 2016, AVA
- The Imazapyr Alliance, March 2, 2016, AVA
- Coastal Redwood Battle Heats Up Along the Gualala River, Oct. 21, 2015, North Bay Bohemian
- A Profile of MRC’s Timber Harvests and Herbicide Use, July 8, 2015, AVA
- Mendo’s Timber Tentacles, Sept. 3, 2014, AVA
- Burnt Out On Fire Suppression, Dec. 18, 2012, AVA
- Plight of the Beautiful Tree, Dec. 5, 2012, AVA
- 21st Century Timber Wars, Aug. 9, 2012, AVA
- Hack and Squirt, Part 2, July 25, 2012, AVA
- Hack and Squirt, Part I, July 18, 2012, AVA
War & Militarism
- How Obama Flacked For Plutonium As Hiroshima Burned, Counterpunch Newsletter, March 1-18, 2011 (PDF)
- Four Horsemen Call For Nuclear Weapons Surge, with Darwin BondGraham & Nicholas Ian Robinson, Z Magazine, March 2010
- Rhetoric vs. Reality: The Political Economy of Nuclear Weapons and Their Elimination, with Jacqueline Cabasso, Darwin BondGraham, Nicholas Ian Robinson, and Ray Acheson, March 2010, first chapter in a book edited by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, entitled Beyond Arms Control: Challenges and Choices for Nuclear Disarmament
- Anti-Nuclear Nuclearism, with Darwin BondGraham, Foreign Policy In Focus, January 12, 2009
- Toward Nuclear Abolition: North Korea Puts Disarmament to the Test, Win Through Revolutionary Non-Violence, Winter 2007
- A People’s History of UC Weapons Lab Management, Feb. 2006
- Nuclear Colonialism & the UC, Jan. 2006
Capitalists and Politicians
- The Fisher Octopus, May 25, 2016, AVA
- Jared Huffman: CalTrans Errand Boy, July 16, 2014, AVA
- What Bosco Does Best, April 17, 2011, AVA
- DiFi and Blum: A Marriage Marinated in Money with Darwin BondGraham, Feb. 2010, Counterpunch
The Grape Rush of Coastal California
- “Don’t Know, Don’t Wanna Know”, August 19, 2015, AVA
- Wine Industry Water Grab?, July 29, 2015, AVA
- Wine Country’s Dr. Sociopath, May 9, 2012, AVA
- New Real Estate Predators, with Darwin BondGraham, February 1, 2012, AVA
- Is Premier Pacific Vineyards Dead?, Dec. 21, 2012, AVA
- The Real Frost Protection Conspiracy, Sept. 28, 2011, AVA
- How Wine Rules, with Darwin BondGraham, July 27, 2011, AVA
- The Second Spanish Invasion of Northern California, June 17, 2011, Counterpunch
- Paul Hobbs & Ken Wilson: Wine Country’s Clear-Cutting Crooks, May 29, 2011, AVA
- Jess Jackson’s True Legacy, May 12, 2011, AVA
- When They Came For the Navarro, Feb. 11, 2011, AVA
- Sonoma County: Banana Republic of Wine Grapes, January 21, 2011, Counterpunch
- On Memory & Forgetting in Wine Country, Jan. 5, 2011, AVA
- Booze, A Banker, and the Bail-Out: The Murder of Mark West Creek, November 25, 2010, AVA
University of California Board of Regents
- Who Rules The University of California? with Darwin BondGraham, Reclamations Journal, April 2010
Human Rights Abuses in the Emerald Triangle
- Full Court Press or War on Immigrants?, Feb. 8, 2012, AVA
CalTrans & The Transportation-Industrial Complex
- The Imaginary World of Phil Frisbie, Jr., August 6, 2014, AVA
- Willits Bypass Timeline, July 23, 2014, AVA
- Why the Corps Shut Down the Bypass, July 9, 2014, AVA
- CalTrans, a Rogue Agency, Oct. 2, 2013, AVA
- Willits & The Erin Brockovich Bypass, Sept. 11, 2013, AVA
- The Bypass “Mitigation” Charade, April 30, 2013, AVA
- Protests Keep Cal Trans at Bay, March 6, 2013, AVA
Protest Coverage
- The Price of Protest, Feb. 11, 2016, AVA
- 9,460.45, Jan. 8, 2015, AVA
- The Wick Drain Stitcher Sit, August 7, 2014, Earth First! Journal
- Life in a Wick Drain Stitcher Part 3, Unseasonal Rain, Nov. 13, 2013, AVA
- Life in a Wick Drain Stitcher Part 1, August 16, 2013, AVA
- Dispatch From 70 Feet Up a Valley Oak, May 22, 2013, AVA
- The Warbler Tree Sit Week II, Feb. 5, 2013, AVA