Our legal director, Marco Simons, was interviewed this morning by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now. The topic? The Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell case, one of two human rights cases that will go before the US Supreme Court next Tuesday. Here’s the video:
Last week I vacationed in western Montana, where I was born and raised. Skipping stones on Flathead Lake and walking for miles along the Clark Fork river, I was acutely aware of the dangerously high water levels – higher than I’ve ever seen – which have led to flooding throughout the state this spring and summer. Read more about Yellowstone River spill is business as usual for Big Oil
Today is Earth Day. Maybe you've already read a few blog posts today about doing your little part: recycling, taking public transit, and turning out the lights. Or perhaps you've heard the sometimes cutesy, sometimes cynical retort: "every day is Earth Day." These are both important concepts (and, I must confess, I wrote a "do your part" post on Human Rights Day four months ago), but for those of us entrenched in the environmental movement, they are also both woefully unsatisfying. Read more about On Earth Day, An Overview of "Earth Rights"
Today is International Human Rights Day, and the 62nd anniversary of the U.N.’s endorsement of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For those of us who work on human rights issues every day, December 10th can be a bit jarring, as the world’s attention focuses on our work for 24 hours and then swivels away again. We’d all love to see the energy and messages of this day persist around the year, so today I walked through our U.S. office and gathered tips from our staff on how you can do just that: Read more about 10 Ways to Defend Human Rights on International Human Rights Day (#HRD)
I recently watched Josh Fox's documentary Gasland, which received a Special Jury Prize earlier this year when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Beautifully directed and narrated, the film is a compelling and disturbing exposé on the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a natural gas drilling technique popular in the United States which relies on the injection of large volumes of chemical cocktails into the earth. Read more about Fracking really freaks me out
In late March, I led a one day workshop in basic web design at the EarthRights School Burma (ERSB), ERI's school for emerging activists inside Burma and along the Thai-Burma border. The course, taught at the students' request, consisted of a brief introduction to HTML and CSS. Read more about Teaching HTML to Burma Activists
Brad holds an MA in Communication, Culture & Technology from Georgetown University, where he studied emerging social media systems and collaborative production and wrote a thesis on procedural tropes in software development practices. He is experienced in print, online & multimedia communications, as well as software engineering. Prior to joining ERI, Brad worked for gnovis, Georgetown University's peer-reviewed Journal of Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT); the Middle East Institute in Washington DC; and several software companies.
In late March, I led a one day workshop in basic web design at the EarthRights School Burma (ERSB), ERI's school for emerging activists inside Burma and along the Thai-Burma border. The course, taught at the students' request, consisted of a brief introduction to HTML and CSS. 
