Issue 705 | September 11, 2009
: Amanda Duzak A woman who challenged the Republican National Committee chairman on health care at a Howard University speech explains why she spoke out.
: Cleve Jones A veteran activist and leading organizer of the National Equality March in Washington, D.C., talks about the struggles of the past and those still ahead.
: Helen Scott My recent encounter with Britain's National Health Service was a stark contrast with the U.S.--and exposed all the right's lies about socialized medicine.
: Nicole Colson There are new revelations about torture during the Bush years--but those who approved it may never stand trial if the Obama administration has its way.
: Todd Chretien Why did Barack Obama cave again to the right-wing blowhards who attacked environmental justice activist Van Jones?
: Sarah Knopp The floodgates were opened to private control over education in Los Angeles with a school board vote to authorize opening up over 250 schools to bidding.
: Andy Libson The rich have a simple solution to the California budget crisis: Make workers, the poor, children and the elderly pay. We propose our own simple solution.
Hundreds gathered at police headquarters in the Hato Rey district of San Juan to denounce the latest case of police brutality.
If there's any idea worth rethinking, it's Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's claim that our needs are best met through the unfettered free market.
Ted Kennedy is being remembered as a liberal stalwart--but also as a bipartisan dealmaker ready to set ideals aside. Those were always two sides of the same coin.
Barack Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan has parallels with a previous U.S. war that raise the question: Is this Obama's Vietnam?
Marxists reject the idea that history is made by charismatic "great men." But that doesn't mean they view individuals as cogs in the machine.
: Lee Sustar Workers at SK Hand Tools are taking a stand on the picket line against a company that unilaterally cut off their health insurance.
Workers at the Ruby Ridge Dairy are facing firings and threats of violence from management because of their fight to form a union.
Some 1,200 members of UNITE HERE Local 2 and their supporters convened in the heart of San Francisco as the workers' contracts expired.
A group of Oregon physicians calling themselves the Mad As Hell doctors is getting ready for a cross-country tour to demand real health care reform.
Hundreds of people in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco rallied in honor of murdered transgender woman Tyli'a Mack.
Immigrants took to the streets in Chicago and LA to put pressure on the Obama administration to stop policies that target immigrant workers.
Veteran LGBT rights activist Cleve Jones spoke to crowds in Chicago and Madison, Wis., to make the case for the National Equality March.
The idea that the California State University Board of Trustees somehow acted "responsibly" when they voted for cuts and fee increases is ridiculous.
: Phil Aliff Dahr Jamail's new book The Will to Resist takes a closer look at the struggles of U.S. soldiers who oppose the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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