Issue 693 | March 27, 2009
: Alan Maass They crashed the Wall Street casino with their reckless gambling, but that isn't stopping the titans of high finance from awarding themselves huge bonuses.
Thousands of antiwar demonstrators marked the sixth anniversary of war on Iraq at protests on March 21.
: Todd Chretien Well-known activist Van Jones will be Barack Obama's "green jobs czar"--but his appointment raises old questions for the left about how to win change.
: Randy Childs President Obama's speech on education continues a political tradition of ignoring the underfunding, overcrowding and segregation that plague our schools.
General strikes in two French colonies in the Caribbean have won sweeping victories--and emboldened workers elsewhere.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has been criticized for what he hasn't done, like stopping those AIG bonuses. But what's worse is what he has done.
True to form, business leaders have reacted with a collective hysteria to legislation that would make it just a bit easier for workers to unionize.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's $1 trillion plan to bail out Wall Street with taxpayer money is an even bigger giveway than the Bush administration proposed.
Arguments made by some anarchists tend to discount the possibility that workers will fight for anything more than reforms that improve their own conditions.
: Sarah Knopp Activists from United Teachers Los Angeles disrupted a school board meeting with civil disobedience to protest layoff notices to 9,000 school employees.
: Andy Libson Frustrated by years of inaction by union leaders, rank-and-file educators in San Francisco have launched a caucus that is contesting union elections.
In Charlotte, N.C., teachers organized a protest over Superintendent Peter Gorman's plan to balance the budget with hundreds of layoffs.
Members of SEIU Local 73 were locked out of their jobs March 20 when they attempted to wear union T-shirts to work at UIC Hospital.
About 50 students, unionists and other activists turned out March 16 to support striking workers at Moncure Plywood.
: Brian Tierney Some 5,000 demonstrators descended on the city of Phoenix in a mass mobilization against Joe Arpaio, the anti-immigrant sheriff of Maricopa County.
A 21-year-old Chicago college student who has spent the majority of his life in the U.S. is facing deportation following a traffic stop.
The "Live from Death Row" national speaking tour has made more than a dozen stops across the country in building opposition to the death penalty.
Thousands of students and faculty from colleges all over California gathered at the State Capitol building on March 16 to protest education cuts.
Some 200 people demonstrated outside Barack Obama's March 17 regional health care summit at the University of Vermont.
: Rebekah Ward Kennesaw State University was put on alert when a larceny suspect escaped onto campus, but no one was looking for the real criminals.
One health care worker tells his story of being denied care under Massachusetts' system of health care "reform."
Ever since Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, vampire stories have exerted a fascination, but the long list of contemporary versions is remarkable.
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