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Workers Speak Out Against Work Schedule Abuse and Retaliation
American women who have no control over their own work schedules have no control over their own lives.
Next Step for Net Neutrality: Join Call for Regional Hearings
Our next step on net neutrality is to demand that the FCC commissioners hold hearings across the country where people can speak face-to-face with the commission.
Morocco: Crossroads in the Conflict Between Future Paths
Despite efforts to economically colonize the ancient cultures and peoples that populate Morocco, a strong resistance movement is fighting back.
Military Commissions: Deferring the Inevitable at Guantanamo
A court vacated support for terrorism charges but upheld a conspiracy conviction for a Guantanamo prisoner, providing a modicum of hope for some former prisoners' appeals.
Dead Is Dead: Drone-Killing the Fifth Amendment
The president in Post-Constitutional America is now officially judge, jury, and executioner.
Harassing the Drones
Judge David Gideon sentenced Mary Anne Grady Flores to a year in prison and fined her $1,000 for photographing a peaceful demonstration at the US Air National Guard's 174th …
Deep in the Tell-Tale Heart of the Texas GOP
Are we to sell reality for a phantom?
George Will’s Column About the Supreme Court’s Decision on Union Fees Misleads Readers
George Will's column on the Supreme Court decision that allowed home care workers to escape payment of union fees overlooks important facts, leaving the wrong impression about the ruling …
Thirsting for Democracy in Detroit: Activists Resist Water Service Shutoffs, Wall Street and Privatization
After a week of direct actions protesting privatization and water service shutoffs, the people of Detroit reject a Wall Street-dictated world, decry commodification of the commons and push back …
US Provides Israel the Weapons Used on Gaza
While the Obama administration talks about supporting a ceasefire, the United States exports to Israel a substantial amount of the same types of weapons Israel is using to kill …