The Growing Gap in Benefits
U.S. workers who have the greatest need for employee benefits – workers earning less than $15 per hour – are the least likely to receive them.
Senate Dems Propose Job-creating Alternative Energy Plan
A report released yesterday by the non-partisan Apollo Alliance says that investments and reforms contained in the so-called Clean EDGE Act would help create jobs while cultivating a strong alternative energy sector.
Oaxaca's Dangerous Teachers
Oaxaca has many dangerous teachers like Gutierrez. In the in the 1970s and 80s, more than a hundred Oaxaca's teachers were killed in the struggle for control of their union, Section 22 of the National Union of Education Workers.
Bush PR Campaign: Back to the Basics
Removed from reality, self-consumed and desperate, the Bush administration went on another PR offensive, in what is considered the 'third most major public relations effort' in the last year.
Hazleton rally denounces anti-immigrant law
Several hundred Pennsylvanians joined local residents in a Sept. 3 rally here organized by labor, Latino and religious groups to oppose a city ordinance that would make it illegal to sell goods or services to, rent to, hire or aid undocumented immigrants.
Haiti’s Dirty Little Secret: the Problem of Child Slavery
In Haiti, the institution of slavery survives in the form of restavec, a system of forced child labour. Restavec is the Haitian Creole term meaning “stay with” and has its origins in the legacy of slavery, the sharply hierarchical class structure and the grinding poverty of Haiti’s masses.
Journalists on the Take Defend Cuba Bashing
Less than a week has passed since the cover of objectivity was blown for 10 journalist-agents receiving large sums of money from the US government for writing horrors about Cuba.
DeVos' Financial Ties to Ford Boycott Sharply Criticized
Despite his claim to support job creation in Michigan, Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos again has shown himself to be on the wrong side of the issue.
E. Michael McCann Empowers Rich Criminals, Imprisons the Poor
A Milwaukee Human Rights Roundtable on Sept 15 to follow up the UN Make Poverty History Program astonishingly includes Milwaukee District Attorney E. Michael McCann as guest commentator.
Verdict: Bush Is Guilty
The testimony that I presented in January to the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration was related to the evidence found in the Downing Street Memos.
