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US Social Forum Kicks Off With Domestic Workers Coming Out of the Shadows
Joycelyn Gill-Campbell did everything her duty as a housekeeper and nanny for her employers, a couple and their one child in New York, demanded. She wore the traditional white …
News in Brief: June the Deadliest Month for Soldiers in Afghanistan, and More
June has been the deadliest month for NATO soldiers fighting in Afghanistan, The Washington Post reports. At least 79 NATO troops have died in the US-led war so far …
Stone’s “Border” Shows Fall of South America’s Berlin Wall
On April 13, 2002, an event occurred in Venezuela which was as world historical for South America as the fall of the Berlin Wall was for Eastern Europe: a …
A Requiem for Detroit?
The new documentary, Requiem for Detroit?, aired March 13, 2010 on BBC2. But I didn’t view it until last week when I received the DVD (with a thank you …
Sarah Anderson | It’s Time We Taxed Financial Gambling
Remember the May 6 stock market “flash crash,” when the Dow plummeted nearly 1,000 points in less than an hour? The experts are still scratching their heads over the …
John Feffer | BP and Sado-Messochism
Have the messes we've been making finally reached a point where they can't be cleaned up? Aside from the occasional asteroid and volcanic outburst, human beings are responsible for …
US Social Forum: Investigative Journalism and Its Value to Movements
For many activists and organizers for social justice, the media aspect of organizing has typically meant having a good list of press contacts and aiming to get your action …
Gulf Oil Spill: Pensacola Beach Covered in Tar Balls
Pensacola Beach, Fla. - Along at least eight miles of this part of the Florida coast, tar balls from the Gulf oil spill washed ashore Tuesday night. …
Joe Conason | Searching for Solutions to Global Warming in Africa
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - What would the wealthy nations of the West (and their rising rivals in the East) do if they actually wanted to prevent catastrophic warming? …
Joshua Greer | Make BP the New Al-Qaeda
It saddens me to write this, but I cannot deny the truth anymore. As one of the many twenty-something progressives who supported Barack Obama in 2008, I was high …