Recently posted

  • The Democrats are in a mad rush to pass health care legislation that is a disaster in the making for working people and a massive giveaway to the industry.

  • The federal government's plans for "reform" in San Francisco's public schools scapegoat poor and minority children.

  • African Americans suffering from foreclosures on homes and rentals can draw on the lessons of Martin Luther King's fight against slums in Chicago.

  • The story of the San Patricios--Irish soldiers who left the U.S. Army to fight for Mexico in the 1846 war--is an important but hidden story of resistance to empire.

  • Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh is wanted by the Israeli government for the "crime" of organizing against Israeli settlements.

  • U.S. officials have put an extended hold on the visa application of award-winning Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer.

  • When Constance McMillen asked to take her girlfriend to the prom, school officials in a Mississippi county responded by canceling the event altogether.

  • In East Jerusalem, Israeli security forces are cracking down on anti-settlement protesters, and Palestinian children in particular.

  • An activist at UC Santa Cruz describes how the movement organized for a successful student strike during the March 4 Day of Action.

  • With his 1973 movie The Crazies, George Romero created a genuinely compelling story chock-full of social criticism. The 2010 remake is anything but.

  • A public school teacher who was stuck on the freeway when protesters took it over on March 4 tells what actually took place.

  • I have a friend serving a 20-years-to-life sentence for a crime he committed when he was 17 years old and a senior in high school.

  • First, the banks drained your wallet. Now the people who stood by and let it happen are about to be rewarded, if Senate Democrats get their way.

  • Staff and students at San Francisco's Mission High School worked hard to forge the solidarity that made the March 4 Day of Action a success.

  • Just when it seemed time to write the obituary for organized labor, immigrant custodians in Minneapolis have added a new chapter to the story.

  • The Chieftains and Ry Cooder have made an album dedicated to reviving an incredible moment in the history of the struggle for justice.

  • As Afghanistan has taken center stage in U.S. corporate media, the U.S. occupation of Iraq has fallen into the media shadows.

  • New York City has an all-inclusive St Patrick's Day parade in Queens whose motto is "Cherishing all the children of the nation equally."

  • Although Kurds comprise about 20 percent of Turkey's population, they have been subject to methodical oppression since the 1920s.

  • Robert Ferguson's nearly eight-year sentence for shoplifting a bag of shredded cheese from a California store made headlines around the world.