As schools get ready to open this year, angry and frustrated parents and teachers stormed out of the latest hearings on Chicago’s austerity budget. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) closed 49 elementary schools this year. Then CPS cut the budgets of the remaining schools by $68 million, and then ...
The not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin has made clear the raw and growing disconnect between the humane and moral foundation of justice and the hard, cold immorality of some of the laws of the land. This verdict compels the American people ...
The Republican Michigan Governor, spurred on by his corporate buddies, seized onto this current crisis, then suggested the current solution. We don’t want our city ...
On July 18, Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr filed a Chapter 9 bankruptcy, making Detroit the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in U.S. history ...
While capitalism was expanding in 1963, it is contracting now. It is causing more conflict between the "owning class" and the workers. Conditions are ...
Protests took place across Texas as the state executed its 500th prisoner since capital punishment started again in the state in 1982. Kimberly Clark ...
Like a fallen leaf o a Fall day
Trayvon Martin lies on the ground
Dead of a bullet
Fired by a man who chased him for being young, black and in the wrong
A city income tax will help restore the city of Benton Harbor. A Michigan-based research group, citizens research council of Michigan, says city income ...
This is a brand new podcast by Andy and Leslie Willis, (self-described as a free-range couple of humanoids enjoying 40+ years of lasting contention and companionship)