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The Big One Is Coming: Strikes Rattle California Hospitals
A one-day strike is set to affect Kaiser Permenente, one of California’s largest and most profitable hospital chains. (Photo: tedeytan) The sudden release of stored energy could …
Ten Tips for a Zero-Waste Household
A few years ago, my husband and I decided that we wanted a better world for our two boys, now 10 and 11 years old. We embarked on a …
Anti-Transgender Violence: How Hate-Crime Laws Have Failed
(Photo: PhotoComiX) On the morning of June 5, 2011, a 23-year-old African-American transgender woman, Chrishaun McDonald, and her friends were walking down Lake Street in Minneapolis. As …
Robert Reich Debunks Six Big GOP Lies About the Economy
Though Nuclear Crisis Continues, IAEA Can’t Force Safety Overhaul
On Monday, September 12, an incinerator explosion at a French nuclear waste processing center killed one, injured four, and created just enough nuclear news to edge this week’s other …
Tumult of Arab Spring Prompts Worries in Washington
Washington - While the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring created new opportunities for American diplomacy, the tumult has also presented the United States with challenges — and worst-case …
Who’s Building the Do-It-Ourselves Economy?
Kelly Wiedemer, an information technology operations analyst who said she was told she would be a “hard sell” because she had been out of work for more than six …
Lost, Abused and Neglected for a Profit
Guillermo Gomez-Sanchez is a 50-year-old legal resident with a mental disability. In 2004, Gomez was detained because of a dispute at a grocery store over a bag of tomatoes. …
From Attica to Pelican Bay
Forty years ago, on September 9th, 1971, prisoners protesting medieval conditions rebelled at Attica, a maximum-security prison in upstate New York. Four days later the state launched a violent …
Middle-Class Death Watch: As Poverty Spreads, 28 Percent of Americans Fall Out of Middle Class
Middle-Class Americans Often Fall Down Economic Ladder: Study – nearly a third of Americans who were part of the middle class have fallen out of it