- After the Grenfell Tower Fire
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 A look at the grave injustice surrounding the Grenfell Tower fire, from the way residents were treated before and after the disaster and the austerity measures that exacerbated it - such as cuts to fire departments.
- Bangladesh factory fire: brands accused of criminal negligence
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Clean Clothes Campaign, along with trade unions & labour rights organisation, is calling for immediate action from international brands following the fire in Dhaka Bangladesh which killed over 100 workers.
- Bangladesh's exploitation economy
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Before the collapse of Rana Plaza, which killed over a thousand people, most of them textile workers, there was the fire that killed a hundred at the Tazreen factory. A major cause is western companies greed for profits.
- Cheap Clothing - At Whose Expense?
Resource Type: Article Published: 1978
- The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects Resource Type: Book Published: 1961 Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
- Fire as U.S. Policy
Burning Truth Resource Type: Article Published: 2015
- 1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
- Grenfell Tower fire: anger rising
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Four days after the raging inferno that criminally took the innocent lives of so many, survivors and friends and families of the missing are still not only without the support from the authorities that they need, but are suffering an unacceptable lack of information and coordination. It is fair to say, that despite the Tory insistence that all is hand and all that can be done is being done, in reality, all that is being done, is being done by community brothers and sisters and a wider volunteer force. Lacking a central command, people are being fed, clothed and comforted from within the community, organised by those of the community. And while the community has so far largely remained peaceful, united by loss and grief, anger is bubbling.
- Grenfell Tower Fire: Corporate Manslaughter in London
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A massive fire engulfed Grenfell Tower in the early hours of June 14th. Grenfell Tower is a 24-storey building of public housing flats in the North Kensington area of London. Over 600 people were believed to be inside the building and there are fears that the death toll, currently at 58, will rise to over a 100. This incident generated a wave of public anger over ignored safety warnings, an inadequate response from authorities, and most of all about the (housing) policies that safeguard corporate greed over the rights of the poor and working class, in this case their very lives. This was no accident it was corporate manslaughter.
- The Grenfell Tower fire could have been avoided: this government must be held responsible
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017
- The Monopoly board of the city: Grenfell Tower - where was the HCA, government housing regulator??
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The Homes & Community Agency(HCA) is the UK state regulatory body for social housing; its job is to monitor the performance, finances and provision of services of landlords. Missing from the media coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster so far is any discussion of what relation the HCA has to this horror story of corporate murder.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
Public Safety Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
- A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
- Why Logging Forests After Wildfires is Ecologically Destructive
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Bond exposes three prevailing falsehoods about logging that the U.S. Forest Service disseminates.
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
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