National : Lee Sustar The long war on unions is escalating in the public sector as the recession wipes out tax revenue and triggers deep budget cuts in states, large and small.
November 6, 2009 : Sherry Wolf In contrast to the surge of pro-LGBT activism and legislative progress, Maine voters overturned equal marriage rights by a narrow margin.
November 5, 2009 : Dave Zirin If Tuesday's elections reveal nothing else, it's that the time for swooning over photo ops is past. We need action, not words.
November 5, 2009 : Solomon Hughes The leading corporate lobbyist against a "public option" in the U.S. helped waste billions on "market reforms" of Britain's National Health Service.
November 4, 2009 : Adam Sanchez The Obama administration's so-called "Race to the Top" funds for schools will further the agenda of school "reform" and privatization.
November 2, 2009 Nearly 500 people rallied against the death penalty in Texas as the issue of wrongful convictions and state killing of innocent people has come center stage.
November 2, 2009 : Keith Rosenthal The pharmaceutical industry is already highly profitable, but this year, it's licking its lips at the prospect of producing vaccines for the swine flu.
October 29, 2009 More than 700 people gathered at the University of California Berkeley to discuss how to take the fight for public education in California to the next level.
October 27, 2009 : Alejandro Cubria Getting sick was only the first part of a health care nightmare--and not the worst--for a young woman from El Salvador.
October 27, 2009 Several hundred people will gather at the University of California at Berkeley this weekend to chart a course of action to defend public education.
October 23, 2009 The killing of an unarmed 15-year-old by police has touched off a surge of anger and protest in Champaign, Ill.
October 22, 2009 : Brian Dolinar Champaign police claim it will take a month for an investigation into the "officer-involved shooting" of an unarmed 15-year-old.
October 20, 2009 : Nicole Colson Texas Gov. Rick Perry is desperately trying to avoid further scrutiny of the execution of an innocent man who was put to death on Perry's watch.
October 19, 2009 Two single-payer health care activists explain why they took part in a sit-in at insurance company Cigna's offices in Chicago on October 8.
October 19, 2009 : Sherry Wolf The National Equality March for LGBT rights was such a success because we struck a chord with a new generation of budding activists.
October 16, 2009 : Brian Tierney Anger erupted in Washington, D.C., schools after nearly 400 teachers and other workers were abruptly laid off five weeks into the new school year.
October 15, 2009 : Howard Zinn I was shocked when I heard Barack Obama was given the Nobel peace prize--until I recalled that Wilson, Roosevelt and Kissinger had all won.
October 14, 2009 : Jesse Hagopian The Obama administration has a lot to say about ending youth violence in the wake of the beating death of a Chicago teen, but does it have any solutions?
October 13, 2009 : Jeremy Scahill Some lawmakers are beginning to push back against the double standards used to attack the community organization ACORN by going after real corporate criminals.
October 13, 2009 : Eric Ruder Some 200,000 people flooded Washington, D.C., filling the streets with rainbow flags and a festival-like atmosphere as part of the fight for LGBT civil rights.
October 12, 2009 : Carter Pagel The state of Texas is refusing to listen to pleas of innocence from another man--even as it prepares to pump lethal chemicals into his body.
October 12, 2009 : Matt MacKellar A Chicago family threatened with eviction is celebrating after community members rallied to their defense and forced authorities to intervene on their behalf.
October 12, 2009 : Elizabeth Schulte Like the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, today's movement for LGBT equality didn't appear overnight. It's been shaped by decades of organizing.
October 9, 2009 : Leela Yellesetty The city of Seattle is ratcheting up the war on its most vulnerable citizens. But the homeless and their supporters are standing up to the attack.
October 6, 2009 SocialistWorker.org asked activists around the country to say what this week's National Equality March for LGBT rights means to them.
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