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Thousands Demand Closure of Fort Benning’s School of the Americas
This weekend, thousands of people gathered at the gates of Ft. Benning to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the killings of 14-year-old Celia Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos and …
Silicon Sweatshops
Taipai, Taiwan — Hourly wages below a dollar. Firings with no notice. Indifferent bosses. Labor brokers that leech away months of a worker's hard-earned wages. A corporate shell game …
Iraq Throws Obama a Curve Ball; Key 2010 Elections in Peril
Reminiscent of the political problems in Afghanistan that have plagued the Obama White House, on Monday Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi vetoed a set of amendments to Iraq’s election law …
Health Care Reform Passes First Senate Hurdle
In a party line vote of 60-39, the Senate voted Saturday evening to proceed with debate on a health care reform bill. All 58 Democrats and both Independents voted …
Commemorating Victories
November 7 marked 30 years since I won my first police brutality trial in East LA. After all these years, I have come to understand the meaning of resilience. …
Population & Environment: a Progressive, Feminist Approach
In “The ‘New’ Population Control Craze: Retro, Racist, Wrong Way to Go”, Betsy Hartmann implies that everyone working on population-environment issues is part of a misogynistic plot to bring …
Table in the Clearing
The convicts and I, a volunteer, sit in a circle in the prison. We do this every Thanksgiving. Eyes closed, we imagine sitting around a table in a clearing …
Conservative Democrat Nelson Will Vote to Let Health Bill Proceed
Washington - Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, one of three moderate Democratic senators wavering on whether to allow debate on health care legislation to proceed, said Friday that he'd …
Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess
Washington - As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East …
Women’s Reproductive Health Is Not a Social Issue
Language matters, so let's be clear: Women's reproductive health is not a “social issue.” Deciding whether to carry the red purse or the black bag to dinner Saturday night? …