Recently posted October 20, 2009
Bay Area Rapid Transit officer Johannes Mehserle--who killed Oscar Grant III early on New Year's Day--has won a legal victory.
October 19, 2009
: Nicole Colson Texas Gov. Rick Perry is desperately trying to avoid further scrutiny of the execution of an innocent man who was put to death on Perry's watch.
: Yolanda Rivera The October 15 general strike in Puerto Rico highlighted the scale of growing resistance to Gov. Luis Fortuño’s effort to wipe out public-sector jobs.
Two single-payer health care activists explain why they took part in a sit-in at insurance company Cigna's offices in Chicago on October 8.
: Helen Keller When politicians gathered at the Capitol for the unveiling of a statue of Helen Keller, they left out an important fact--Keller was a socialist.
Over 300 teachers, who have been working without a contract for 15 months, turned out to the Portland Public School Board meeting October 12.
October 16, 2009
: Sherry Wolf The National Equality March for LGBT rights was such a success because we struck a chord with a new generation of budding activists.
Rush Limbaugh called out me and several other writers by name on his radio show because we challenged his efforts to own an NFL team.
: Oscar Estrada The coup regime in Honduras is continuing to clamp down on protests and the media while dragging its feet in negotiations.
: Truman Nelson One hundred and fifty years ago today, a band of men led by John Brown launched an armed attack they hoped would spark an uprising against slavery.
When residents in Denton, Texas, found out that natural gas drilling was going to begin in their neighborhood, they got organized.
October 15, 2009
: Brian Tierney Anger erupted in Washington, D.C., schools after nearly 400 teachers and other workers were abruptly laid off five weeks into the new school year.
: Lee Sustar Workers are responding to plans to cut 17,000 government jobs with a one-day work stoppage supported by virtually all of the island's unions.
: Lance Selfa A new book explains the role that the Staley workers' struggle of the 1990s played in reviving some of the best traditions of the labor movement.
: Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola The myths taught to America about Christopher Columbus' "discovery" of America are a cover for inconceivable acts of violence.
Around 150 students took over the Anthropology Library at the University of California-Berkeley on October 9 to protest budget cuts.
October 14, 2009
: Howard Zinn I was shocked when I heard Barack Obama was given the Nobel peace prize--until I recalled that Wilson, Roosevelt and Kissinger had all won.
: Antonis Davenellos Economic crisis and mass struggle paved the way for the election victory of the social democratic party PASOK--and the radical left is poised to grow.
: Eamonn McCann The comments of High Court justices in London about a case charging British Army atrocities in Iraq have implications for Northern Ireland.
Residents of the Mano con Mano colony of Tampico, Mexico, have been violently forced off of their land and their houses have been destroyed.
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