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In the United States, few issues are more socially divisive than the location of hazardous waste facilities and other environmentally harmful enterprises. Do the negative impacts of such polluters fall disproportionately on African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian Americans? "Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles" discusses how political, economic, social, and cultural factors contribute to local government officials' consistent location of hazardous and toxic waste facilities in low-income neighborhoods and how, as a result, low-income groups suffer...

On July 7, 1941, war was raging in Europe and the U.S. was demanding that Panama ruthlessly ferret out "German" saboteurs. The presidency of Arnulfo Arias was on the brink of collapse. On the morning of July 7, the Policia Nacional of Panama opened fire in cold blood on Swiss-Germans who had founded an enigmatic community on a farm in the highland wilderness of western Panama. These obstinate but unarmed settlers were followers of the U.S. cult-figure Father Divine. The victims of the shooting: 10 dead on the spot; two who bled to death on the 18-hour trek by horse, truck and train to the...