You and What Movement? A Response to Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is suffering, along with some other sectors of the academic North American left, an existential crisis. In a recent column she published in The Nation and in The Huffington Post, she complained about “the awkward in-between space in which many US progressive movements find themselves” now that Barack Obama is president of the United States.
Atlantans Return from Three Year Global Peace Walk
Atlantan, Audri Scott Williams, had a vision in April 2005. She and the Spirit of Truth Foundation wanted to spread the message of global peace. Armed with the vision and word of mouth, six people agreed to sell their worldly assets and start out on a march across six continents doing public service work.
Why Do So Many SOA Grads Become Death Squad Killers?
If the Pentagon’s instructors didn't teach assassination at the School of the Americas (SOA) in Fort Benning, Ga., is it just coincidental that so many of its star pupils graduate to become mass murderers?
Obama's Education Reform Immune to GOP Filibuster
President Obama's education reform proposals received a huge boost Friday, April 24th, when Democratic lawmakers announced they would include them along with health care reform in the appropriations process under rules that would prevent a Senate Republican filibuster.
Whither Obama on Cuba?
During his campaign and now in his first 100 days as president, Barack Obama has claimed a close affinity with the iconography and idealism of President John F. Kennedy and his family.
Good Jobs, Safe Jobs: Give Workers a Voice for Change
Workers Memorial Day 2009, a day to remember those who have suffered and died on the job and to renew the fight for safe workplaces, was observed by the Allegheny County Labor Council, AFL-CIO, at 11:30 AM on Tuesday 4/28/2009 in Pittsburgh in Market Square.
Video: Rethink Afghanistan
US Marine Cpl. Rick Reyes, a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Reyes was powerful and truthful as he expressed serious discontent with the current mission in Afghanistan, telling Congress, 'Sending more troops will not make the US safer, it will only build more opposition against us.'
Activists Protest Wachovia Bank over Foreclosures
ATLANTA - A coalition of labor and progressive activists protested at the Wachovia bank in Midtown Atlanta, at the corner of 10th and Peachtree, from 10am to 1130am, on Tuesday, April 21, 2009.
Light at the End of the Unemployment Line? (April 23)
As steam from President Obama's economic stimulus plan builds in the states and localities and new investments in infrastructure and job-saving programs start to flow, do the latest data from the Department of Labor suggest that the dismal unemployment situation may be turning a corner?
Obama Signs Landmark Community Service Bill
President Obama, today, April 21st, signed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act into law. This landmark national service law will expand federal funding to the Corporation for National Community Service (CNCS), a federal agency that oversees such community service programs as AmeriCorps, Senior Corps and Learn and Serve America.
