Ross' Writings:


AlterNet
March 21, 2003
A War on the Environment
By Ross Mirkarimi
In the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf War and ensuing U.N. sanctions against Iraq, there is one point on which everyone agrees: War is bad for the environment.


San Francisco Bay Guardian
October 23, 2002
On the home front
By Ross Mirkarimi
WE FELT WAR immediately as we crossed the Jordanian border into Iraq and sped toward Baghdad. A sense of impending catastrophe, difficult to define at first, became as common as oxygen. My eyes absorbed the beauty of an ancient nation destroyed indiscriminately by modern technology.


The San Francisco Call
October 29, 2001
Public power for San Francisco?
By Ross Mirkarimi
On November 6, San Francisco voters will vote on two initiatives that may change the way the city provides public utilities. The Call asked both the supporters and the critics of the measures for a description of their position. The opponents offered no response; their arguments can be found at www.no3billionbill.com. The proponents have provided the following statement.


San Francisco Bay Guardian
December 6, 2000
Who's afraid of the Greens?
By Ross Mirkarimi
OUR DEMOCRACY IS anemic, and the recent presidential election proves it. But while millions of Americans fell prey to the stun gun of intolerance directed at third-party presidential candidates this fall, San Franciscans, in particular voters in District Five, can defy negative convention by not succumbing to the outlandish fear-mongering generated by supervisorial candidate Juanita Owens.


San Francisco Chronicle
October 21, 1997
Why Treasurer's Race Matters
By Ross Mirkarimi


Christian Science Monitor
January 24, 1997
Dangerous Liasons: War and the Environment
By Ross Mirkarimi


In These Times
June 10, 1992
Disease, Despair, Destruction Still Plague Iraq
By Ross Mirkarimi