Broadening the Campaign for the Employee Free Choice Act
Today at noon (June 8) Mayor Carl Redus of Pine Bluff, Arkansas hosted a meeting for the AFL-CIO with the Arkansas Conference of Black Mayors. Twenty or so mayors were at the lunch meeting at the Pine Bluff Ramada Conference Center.
Cartoon: Capitalism, Wipeout...
A recent poll showed just about half of Americans think capitalism is better than socialism. With the collapse of the financial system and the economy, the ideology of the free market has fewer and fewer adherents.
Philippines Academics Protest Proposed Constitutional Changes
What is at stake in opposing the Macapagal-Arroyo-sponsored Constituent Assembly is our right and responsibility to defend the people's democratic rights. While the current constitution is not perfect, it is only through the democratic exercise of our freedoms can we determine the changes needed for the rule of law to serve the people.
Israeli Protesters Demand Two-state Solution
Tel Aviv – Thousands of peace and communists activists marched Saturday, June 6, 2009 in Tel Aviv marking 42 years of Palestinian territories occupation.
Obama at Buchenwald Buries Reagan Past
President Obama is back from his trip abroad. It was a remarkable tour, during which he spoke of peace, democracy and progress in Egypt, and then, in Germany, he confronted some of the greatest crimes against humanity ever perpetrated, crimes that were the direct result of fascism and war.
'School of Americas' Generals Charged in Colombia
Two Colombian generals, both of whom received training at the U.S. Army's 'School of The Americas' (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Ga., have been accused by Colombian authorities of crimes involving narcotics and collaborating with criminal paramilitary groups, according to a report in the June 15th issue of The Nation magazine.
Seattle vs Shanghai: Democracy Means Inefficiency?
At a recent Chinese-American event dinner, I had fun chatting with two interesting neighbors at my table. On my left was a seasoned Seattle urban planning consultant. Our conversation started with his tour down China’s Yangtze River last summer, and his marveling at Beijing’s decision to build the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydro project.
Swine Flu – Giving the Pigs a Bad Name
The swine flu scare may have receded from the public eye, but the fear of a pandemic still remains. Along with the threat of a pandemic, the issues that have come up include the old one of the implication of patent monopoly for vital life saving drugs and whether the industrial mode of producing meat/poultry products is giving rise to threat of new diseases.
In Memory of Ronald Takaki
Ronald Takaki, a gifted and enormously productive scholar and teacher died last month. The press reported that his death followed a 20-year struggle with multiple sclerosis. Takaki was a gentle unassuming man, a remarkable lecturer with a sometimes whimsical sense of humor.
Laughter and Anger
Yet the fact is that Miss Childress, maintaining a light and charming tone, and the greatest readability, does move the reader – to tears and to laughter – but mostly to anger, the kind of anger which is the courage to change and fight against the ugliness surrounding us.
