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  • 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?

  • Members of the Oakland Education Association voted overwhelmingly to authorize a one-day strike and also to support the March 4 day of action.

  • The recent struggle in IBT Local 722 in LaSalle, Ill., highlights the corruption that still plagues the Teamsters union.

  • 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.

  • Amid the catastrophe of the earthquake in Haiti, imperial powers and corporate vultures are circling, eyeing the profits to be made from reconstruction.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Soldiers who face unexpected parenting hardships and are unable to deploy are being slapped with criminal charges by the U.S. military.

  • Some 400 people turned out for a regional conference sponsored by the antiwar network New England United, exceeding organizers' expectations.

  • Anyone who spent any time with Howard Zinn knows of his tremendous generosity of spirit, and of course, his legendary humor.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • Two measures would immediately help Haitians--cancellation of the foreign debt and overhauling an immigration system that discriminates against them.

  • Howard Zinn came up with some recommendations if you really want to know what happened in U.S. history.

  • Police attacked a January 30 fundraising event, bringing chaos to what had been a peaceful evening in San Francisco.

  • 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.