Recently posted February 9, 2010
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?
: Jessie Muldoon Members of the Oakland Education Association voted overwhelmingly to authorize a one-day strike and also to support the March 4 day of action.
: Pete Camarata The recent struggle in IBT Local 722 in LaSalle, Ill., highlights the corruption that still plagues the Teamsters union.
: Eamonn McCann 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.
February 8, 2010
: Ashley Smith Amid the catastrophe of the earthquake in Haiti, imperial powers and corporate vultures are circling, eyeing the profits to be made from reconstruction.
: Kevin Chojczak 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.
: Dahr Jamail 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.
February 5, 2010
Anyone who spent any time with Howard Zinn knows of his tremendous generosity of spirit, and of course, his legendary humor.
: Anand Gopal 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.
: Marlene Martin 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?
: Helen Scott 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.
February 4, 2010
: Danny Lucia 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.
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