NYC ‘stop and frisk’ gets court slapdown

Grassroots resistance needed to end it A federal court here declared on Aug. 12 that the New York Police Department’s…

August 13, 2013

Let Lynne go!

Another vindictive assault has taken place against a courageous people’s lawyer. On Aug. 8, District Judge John Koetl rejected Lynne…

August 13, 2013

Protesta de estudiantes indocumentados

Con la aproximación del inicio de un nuevo año escolar, decenas de estudiantes indocumentados/as, muchos/as vistiendo sus togas de graduación,…

August 13, 2013

‘Descenso’ en el desempleo oculta incremento en la miseria

El Gobierno informó el 2 de agosto que la tasa oficial de desempleo descendió del 7,6 por ciento al 7,4…

August 13, 2013

Save the people’s post office

Without question, the big-business class — and their agents in the U.S. Postal Service headquarters, the executive branch and Congress…

August 12, 2013

Ramarley Graham denied justice

Based on an Aug. 8 press release put out by the Justice Committee.   Family members and supporters of Ramarley…

August 12, 2013

Who’s pushing post office privatization?

Postal and community activists struggling to save the U.S. Postal Service from privatization need to know who they are fighting…

August 11, 2013

Protesters at governors’ conference

Protesters from across Wisconsin and beyond confronted the National Governors Association conference held at the Frontier Airlines Center in downtown…

August 11, 2013

On the picket line

Palermo’s Pizza reinstates eight of 100 fired strikers The 13-month battle at Palermo’s Pizza for union representation — to end…

August 11, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 12

Same-sex marriage in prehistoric societies Although the truly nightmarish conditions for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people that existed…

August 11, 2013