(APN) ATLANTA – A coalition of transit riders, workers, and advocates called on Georgia lawmakers, Wednesday, May 06, 2009, to send financial help to MARTA so the struggling agency does not have to make drastic service cuts later this year.

President Obama took two major steps this week to expand the use of renewable energy sources. First, he ordered the creation of a new administration "biofuels working group."

In the battle over the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, right-wing opposition to the bill has centered on the claim that if a majority sign-up (sometimes referred to as "card check") process of certifying the union is used, union organizers will pressure and intimidate workers into joining the union.

This past week Ben Bernanke more or less predicted a reversal of the economic downturn by the end of the year. But do the latest data from the Department of Labor suggest that the dismal unemployment situation may be turning a corner?

HAVANA, Cuba, May 6 (acn) Power consumption in Cuba has dropped by
141,000 kilowatt hours a year since 2007 as a result of the replacement of fluorescents lamps in the working sector, as part of the Lighting Efficiency Program.

During the Vietnam War, Stanford students succeeded in banning secret military research from campus. Last weekend, 150 activist alumni and present Stanford students targeted Condoleezza Rice for authorizing torture and misleading Americans into the illegal Iraq War.

My brother, Gary, was killed on the job, at a plant called Meadville Redi-Mix.
His family, his friends, his future was robbed when he fell 25 feet to his death.

HAVANA, Cuba, May 5 (acn) Alejandro Moreno, Cuba’s Ambassador to the United Nations, said that the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) believes the opportunity to achieve nuclear disarmament is within sight, after the issue was ignored for a long time by some of the most important countries.

With U.S. unemployment at 8.5 percent in March, the highest rate in 25 years—and expected to get even worse when April’s figures are released this week—the Letter Carriers (NALC) annual national food drive on Saturday comes at one of the most critical times in its 17-year history.

"Give the American people the choice," said former DNC Chair Howard Dean May 4th during a nationwide online discussion about the need for a public option as part of this year's drive for health care reform.

NAIROBI, 4 May 2009 (IRIN) - The expulsion of 13 international NGOs (INGOs) operating in the western Sudan region of Darfur has left gaps in health coverage, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO) as 12 of them provided health and nutrition services to about 1.1 million people.

Jay Bybee wrote another memo that nobody has noticed, one purporting to authorize crimes far worse than torture, the same crimes the torture was itself intended to create false justifications for.

The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in Hobart on April 30 signed on to the federal government’s paltry National Renewable Energy Target (RET) and agreed to exemptions of up to 90 percent for the most intensive emitters of green house gases where these are export-related.

Some folks think the Kentucky Derby is one of the sports world's signature events, where horses are athletes to be appreciated for their power and beauty. Others consider the so-called sport of kings ostentatious nonsense, cruel to the animals and one more occasion for the super-rich to throw their money around.

One of the drawbacks to the increasing mechanization of postal facilities is the increase in paper dust. The machines doing the grunt work loosen the dust and send it airborne where workers can breathe it in copiously.

ATLANTA - Soon after President Barack Obama took the oath of office, US Congress passed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), sweeping legislation designed to stimulate a deeply troubled economy.

Hundreds of people rally and march through the streets of San Francisco and Oakland in the rain to celebrate May Day, demand rights and legal status for immigrants, and honor the contributions of working people.

Last autumn (in 2008) we witnessed the owners of wealth change their tune from laissez faire capitalism to one of unprecedented government intervention in our financial system.

President Obama has pledged to undertake a comprehensive inventory of liquid coal ash waste and propose new regulations to ensure its safe disposal.

Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to be the third pontiff to visit the Holy Land from 8 – 15 May, following in the footsteps of Paul VI in 1964 and John Paul II in 2000, on a mission officially described as a “pilgrimage” and one of “peace and reconciliation.”