: Elizabeth Schulte The Stupak Amendment added to the House health care bill is the latest in a long history of the Democratic Party's betrayals of women's rights.
Nearly 2,000 students from University of California campuses converged on UCLA to confront officials as they voted for a huge tuition hike.
: Equality Across America The gay victim of a terrible crime in Puerto Rico will be honored at vigils held around the country.
: Lee Sustar Civil liberties lawyer Lynne Stewart has been ordered to report to prison despite cancer surgery scheduled for December 7.
: Leighton Christiansen While U of I grad employees didn't get everything we wanted in our contract, we stood strong on the picket line and won our key demand.
: Anand Gopal An Afghanistan-based journalist looks at the fallout from the country's fraud-ridden presidential election and the likelihood of an intensified war.
: Alan Maass and Helen Redmond The House "reform" bill is a disaster for anyone who hoped a Democratic president and Congress would fix the screwed-up health care system.
: Arundhati Roy The flat-topped hills and mountains of Orissa in southeastern India are being sold off to multinational mining companies for the bauxite they contain.
The history of the disability rights movement underscores the point that self-determination, not charity, is the key to liberation.
If we want truly equal access for a woman's right to choose, we need to fight for abortion services as part of a publicly funded health care system.
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The Obama administration put bankers' bailouts and more spending on the Pentagon before coming to grips with unemployment.
: Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare As Washington debates a new surge of troops to Afghanistan, an overstretched military is struggling to meet its deployment numbers.
: Dahr Jamail The case of Private Timothy Rich shows the disastrous consequences of the military's apathetic attitude toward its own.
Barack Obama visited Fort Hood following the tragic shooting--but wouldn't accept a letter expressing the concerns of Iraq Veterans Against the War.
: Stuart Easterling The horrific massacre of a Mexican union leader and his family is being blamed on drug gangs, but that leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
: Dennis Kosuth Budget cuts and layoffs in Chicago's Cook County will reduce access to an already overburdened public health care system.
: Gary Lapon The banksters arrogantly jumped to the front of the line for H1N1 vaccine--but the even bigger scandal is the profit-mad behavior of drug companies.
: Julien Ball After just two days of large, spirited picket lines, administrators at the flagship campus of the University of Illinois threw in the towel.
The cold November rain didn't discourage grad employees on the first day of their strike at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
: John Coursey After a six-day strike, Philadelphia transit workers are set to vote on a contract offer that includes most of what the union was fighting for.
: Leighton Christiansen A member of the graduate student employees' strike committee at the University of Illinois explains what the union's fight is about.
Around 1,200 teachers and their supporters confronted the Portland, Ore., school board to demand movement on a new contract.
A three-day strike at the Palace Hotel followed a similar walkout at the Grand Hyatt as hotel workers fight to defend their health care.
Activists met strong community support as they gathered at a Wal-Mart Super Center to build solidarity for a union drive.
A three-day strike and protest by students, staff and faculty began November 18 at campuses in the University of California system.
Some 200 people came out in downtown Seattle to celebrate the historic victory of Referendum 71 that confirmed LGBT rights.
Nearly 250 protesters from across New York gathered outside an Air Force base near Syracuse to protest the arrival of drone aircraft.
Massachusetts LGBT rights activists haven't forgotten Barney Frank's snide hostility toward the National Equality March last October.
A surge in student and faculty activism won a victory in the Peralta Community College District in northern California.
: Haidar Eid A Gaza resident asks the president of the United States how he can defend Israel's "security" in the face of the barbarism inflicted on Palestinians.
We live in a society where there are more regulations for euthanizing animals than there are for executing human beings.
The owners of pro sports teams have gotten public funds for far too long. They have an obligation to hear what we have to say.
Those in Britain who talk the most about honoring the war dead are keenest when it comes to keeping a flow of dead coming in from new wars.
At a fancy gala thrown by the Harlem Success Academy, I heard charter school supporters use the legacy of civil rights struggles to sell privatization.
: Susan Jay After years of privatizing city services, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has stepped up his attempts to sell off key public assets.
: Matthis Chiroux A member of Iraq Veterans Against the War reflects on the everyday violence that fuels tragedies like the one at Fort Hood.
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling just paid the largest settlement ever for his rotten record of housing discrimination.
The fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago was one crest in a wave of revolt that overturned governments across half of Europe at the end of 1989.
: Antonino D'Ambrosio The author of two books on Joe Strummer and Johnny Cash explains why he thinks the idea of making music is a rebellious act.
The Men Who Stare at Goats takes an oddly tongue-and-cheek look at the U.S. military's many methods of interrogation.
: Nicole Colson November marks the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street--a show that's had a greater impact on the lives of multiple generations of people than any other.
: Ben Davis In Jailhouse Lawyers, Mumia Abu-Jamal shows how some important prison reform litigation has its origin behind bars.
Current proposals for health care reform will make insurance companies even richer, and that money will flow back into American politics.
While the TV show Glee appears to be about diversity, it sinks to the worst tokenism by keeping its "different" characters on the margins.
Like any other struggle, the key is not to focus on how the oppressed are different from their oppressors, but how are they similar.
Animals certainly deserve decent treatment, but to compare that to human liberation is misunderstanding what human liberation means.
The story of hard times for millions is closely interwoven with those of desperate individuals lashing out in acts of violence.
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