The tea partiers celebrated their "movement" at a convention in Nashville, but is really a sign that the right wing is back on the ascendancy?
: Jessie Muldoon Members of the Oakland Education Association voted overwhelmingly to authorize a one-day strike and also to support the March 4 Day of Action.
: Pete Camarata The recent struggle in IBT Local 722 in LaSalle, Ill., highlights the corruption that still plagues the Teamsters union.
: Eamonn McCann We can all take a cue from antiwar protester Grace McCann, who got sick of waiting on official channels and tried to collar Tony Blair herself.
The case of Samantha Burton illustrates a dangerous legal precedent in denying women basic human freedoms during pregnancy and childbirth.
Resources exist at the University of Washington to mitigate the cuts on students and workers--by cutting administrators' salaries.
Readers should check out the excellent seven-part BBC docudrama The Voyage of Charles Darwin to learn more about Darwin's ideas.
: Brian Jones The civil rights movement's lunch counter sit-ins--direct action protests against a hated symbol of Jim Crow segregation--began 50 years ago today.
: Ashley Smith Amid the catastrophe of the earthquake in Haiti, imperial powers and corporate vultures are circling, eyeing the profits to be made from reconstruction.
: Helen Scott Two measures would immediately help Haitians--cancellation of the foreign debt and overhauling an immigration system that discriminates against them.
: Danny Lucia Education Secretary Arne Duncan stooped to a new low when he declared that Hurricane Katrina was "the best thing that happened" to New Orleans schools.
: Kevin Chojczak San Francisco schools are being hit with devastating cuts--but educators and their allies are preparing to fight back on California's March 4 day of action.
: Adrienne Johnstone Barack Obama’s Race to the Top program offers cash-strapped state governments federal money--as long as they agree to attack teachers’ unions.
: Lee Sustar and Alan Maass Barack Obama's proposed budget for 2011 does little to create jobs, freezes spending on key social services--and lavishes yet more money on the Pentagon.
: Dahr Jamail Soldiers who face unexpected parenting hardships and are unable to deploy are being slapped with criminal charges by the U.S. military.
: Anand Gopal In the U.S. detention process, suspects are usually nabbed in the darkness and sent to one of a number of detention areas, often on the slightest suspicion.
: Elizabeth Schulte The former British Prime Minister's appearance before a public inquiry recalls the web of lies that paved the way for the war on Iraq.
: Dahr Jamail The U.S. military has sent anthropologists, sociologists and social psychologists with troops into both Iraq and Afghanistan.
: Eric Toussaint U.S. aggressiveness towards Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador has increased in response to diminishing U.S. influence over Latin America.
In a surprise court decision, Texas death row prisoner Gabriel Gonzales received a new sentence of life with the possibility of parole.
: Alex Tronolone More than 2,000 people packed into a hearing to raise their voices against a plan to close 19 schools in New York City.
: John Green The California governor's claim that he would protect education in the latest round of cuts is belied by his budget proposal.
Some 400 people turned out for a regional conference sponsored by the antiwar network New England United, exceeding organizers' expectations.
Police attacked a January 30 fundraising event, bringing chaos to what had been a peaceful evening in San Francisco.
Some 160 community members of economically hard-hit Braddock, Pa., protested the closure of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
One hundred people protested at Portland State University to speak out against corporatization of their school.
Expanding the General Assemblies is key to the development of a campus movement that can establish a new level of strength.
Dozens of people gathered at Powell and Market Streets in San Francisc o to stand in solidarity with the people of Haiti.
More than 80 people representing student, faculty and campus organizations and unions met to plan for March 4 Day of Action in San Diego.
A One Year Later rally in San Diego drew a respectable crowd of activists whose voices couldn't be dampened.
In the past, a vote for Labour would at least have been a protest against greed, even if the party didn't do much about it.
Anyone who spent any time with Howard Zinn knows of his tremendous generosity of spirit, and of course, his legendary humor.
: Marlene Martin To know that Howard Zinn was a part of our struggle made people stand a little taller and feel a little more committed and confident about our fight.
CBS has long claimed to have Super Bowl rules against "advocacy ads." So why are they running an anti-abortion commercial?
: Dr. Margaret Flowers The "better approach" to health care reform that Barack Obama asked for is simple: An improved Medicare-for-All national health system.
: Eamonn McCann A steady increase of acrimony over the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland is underway as an official tribunal nears its conclusion.
In Haiti, power rules in the form of an American naval blockade and tens of thousands of Marines and mercenaries, none with humanitarian training.
The International Olympic Committee has leased every sign and billboard in Vancouver to broadcast Olympic joy, but they can't purchase people's faces.
Howard Zinn came up with some recommendations if you really want to know what happened in U.S. history.
: Scott Johnson Controversy surrounded the much-awaited U.S. release of Creation, a movie about the life of Charles Darwin. But does the film measure up?
: Alexander Billet The Grammys have never been good at acknowledging happenings in the world, but this year, the disparity was especially stark.
Soundtrack for a Revolution shows how the music of the civil rights movement helped give ordinary people the confidence to do extraordinary things.
The priorities of the system from top to bottom favor the rich over the poor, business over labor, top paid administrators over students.
The U.S. State Department's warnings classifying political protests of Haitians as violent show a deep prejudice.
President Obama told Tim Geithner that he "did a great job" justifying the Wall Street bailout--and then gave a speech where he proposed a freeze on spending.
What is surprising about Jean-Bertrand Aristide's second government is that it accomplished so much in the face of a total aid embargo from the U.S., Canada and France.
In a victory over the state's prison-industrial complex, four prisons are slated for closure in New York state.
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