How the Labor-led People's Movement Can Change America
Are we entering a new stage of struggle in our country in which the convergence and interaction of political events, movements, and processes of an immediate and medium term nature contain the possibility of throwing the class struggle on a new political trajectory?
Bush Veto Hits Veterans
Using just the sixth veto of his presidency, George W. Bush blocked passage of the Labor-HHS-Education funding bill this week. In addition to a myriad of social programs from health care to education, this bill provided funding for key veterans' health care programs.
Cargo Ships in Paradise: Shipping Lanes Threaten Our Yosemites on the Sea
Imagine if someone put a superhighway through Yosemite. That’s exactly what’s happening just outside the Golden Gate. Our Yosemites on the sea are being used as on-ramps to the global economy.
Defeating the Extreme Right, Key to Democracy
The US economy is increasingly driven by war spending, compelled by the parasitism of the giant military corporations through armaments production and the profit orgy gained from privatization of the Iraq war.
Veterans Day: A Day for Peace or A Day for War?
Could you ever imagine that Veterans Day was originally enacted as a day for world peace? Not by the way veterans who stand for peace are treated in Veterans Day ceremonies!
Gulf Workers Confront ‘Race to Bottom’
Renaissance Park in Baker, La., has a name that does it no justice. Home to Catherine Pitt, 31, an African American mother and her two children, it is row after row of cramped FEMA trailers sitting on a flat field encircled by barbed wire and patrolled by armed Blackwater USA security guards.
Blacks Need Radio News, Not Michael Baisden's Slanders
By November 9, Baisden, who calls himself the 'Bad Boy' of radio, was forced to tuck his tail between his legs and issue a half-hearted, disingenuous 'apology' to Color of Change.
Giuliani, Pro-Choice? Media Mislabel GOP Front-runner
News stories about Rudy Giuliani's campaign for the Republican nomination for president often refer to his supposed support for abortion rights.
Georgia: DeKalb County to Expedite Funds Approved for Grady Hospital
The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners Tuesday, November 06, 2007, amended a resolution passed last month in order to more quickly deliver emergency funding to the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority for Grady Hospital.
Cuban American Members of Congress Fear Loss of Seats in 2008
George W. Bush’s unfortunate October 23 speech dedicated in its entirety to Cuba was so widely rejected that it may have a major impact on the U.S. president’s objectives.
