G. Sachs
Acting out
Forty years ago, employees of the General Services Administration dragged me down a hall by my hair and pulled the woman I was with by the underarms into an elevator from outside the cell block where our friends had been put.
The story starts back in Boston, Mass., sometime between Christmas 1980, and New Year's the next week, when I found myself speaking at a press conference from the State House in Boston recommending that other young men not register with the military - i.e., not give the military one's name to thus avoid feeding personally the military-industrial complex. CARD - the Coalition Against Registration and the Draft - had found me eligible as a potential public non-registrant. They originally called looking for a roommate who ended up being too old.
Something smells in proposed VY deal
Someone has to speak up against the proposed sale of Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee to a decommissioning company that prides itself on its relationship with Areva. Areva is in rough fiscal shape today, thanks to its inability to complete a Finnish nuke that is years over budget and long...