Issue 689 | January 30, 2009
: Nicole Colson Barack Obama is honoring a campaign pledge to close the U.S. prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, but there are omissions and inconsistencies in his actions.
: Alan Maass The scale of Bernie Madoff's $50 billion fraud is staggering, but that shouldn't be allowed to obscure the bigger crimes at the heart of the capitalist system.
: Lee Sustar Citigroup and Bank of America are staggering under a new wave of losses as the deepening recession drags down the financial system.
: Todd Chretien Some 3,000 people rallied in Oakland in the latest of a series of protests against the police killing of an unarmed man on New Year's Day.
: Nate Goldbaum Busloads of angry teachers and parents will descend on a Chicago Board of Education meeting today to protest a plan to close schools and fire teachers and staff.
: Elizabeth Schulte Barack Obama is promising a new era of "post-partisan" politics--but that's a politicians' cliché for making concessions on important issues.
The Seattle school board will vote on a proposal to close five schools--but it's under pressure from angry teachers and parents.
: David Rapkin Teachers and parents are sending a message: Don't ruin public education and call it "reform"--and don't make our kids pay for your crisis.
: Haidar Eid A resident of Gaza City describes the horrors inflicted on Palestinians during Israel's war--and how the anger is feeding the determination to resist.
Student activists in Britain are occupying their universities in solidarity with the people of Gaza, and antiwar forces are pressuring the BBC.
The Republicans and big business are road-testing their approach to the Employee Free Choice Act. How will Obama and organized labor respond?
Millions of people jammed into Washington to see history made with Barack Obama's inauguration. What they do now will shape the new era.
South Africa under the former apartheid regime had a history of close ties to Israel--based on the two countries' identification with each other's racist cause.
Hotel workers in Emeryville, Calif., won a significant victory when the city council ordered Woodfin Suites to pay $200,000 in back wages.
Lack of clean drinking water is just one example of the conditions that workers at Great Western Erectors are organizing to end.
A spirited crowd of at least 30 protested police harassment of mainly immigrant construction workers as they wait for work in Queens.
Antiwar activists at the Rochester Institute of Technology are celebrating after military recruiters were banned from the Student Alumni Union.
Over 300 people braved a frigid sub-zero evening in Madison, Wis., to hear a panel discussion on "The Left and Obama."
Some 120 people came out in Atlanta to protest the King Center's choice of Rick Warren as keynote speaker at its annual service.
Some 200 pro-choice activists turned out to counter-protest the so-called "March for Life" in San Francisco.
About 50 members and supporters UC staff workers stormed the offices of millionaire and UC Regent Richard Blum.
It is beyond dismaying that President-elect Barack Obama would choose CNN pundit Sanjay Gupta as the next surgeon general.
: Michele Bollinger Supporters of abortion rights have a lot to be hopeful about, but questions about the movement's direction are as pressing ever.
: Scott Johnson The animated documentary Waltz with Bashir exposes the truth about Israel's role in the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre.
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