Folks from across Michigan came together on September 21st in Southwest Detroit to peacefully form a human line of resistance against tar sands and dirty energy. This gathering took place on the ...
I live one quarter mile from Portersville Bay, off the Alabama coast. One morning after the spill, I heard air boats going up and down and crisscrossing the water so I went out to see what was going ...
This is an interview with the hip hop group Rebel Diaz, consisting of Rodrigo Venegas (known as RodStarz), and his brother Gonzalo Venegas (known as G1. We met up at Martyrs’ nightclub in Chicago ...
Congress should take a lesson from the Cleveland City Council, where they opt for silence instead of endorsing the slaying of unarmed people. The House of Representatives, on the other hand ...
Twelve-year-old Laportia Massey died from an asthma attack that began at a public school where the nurse visits only twice a week. Philadelphia has cut 100 nurses from the city’s schools in ...
New Orleans is so important because of the number of schools that have become charters, and that they took advantage of Katrina to do it. It’s important that people know the lessons in ...
Looking at Chicago's Tax Increment Finance districts is like staring at a spider web. Both are elegant, complex, and sinister: seems like there is more here than meets the eye. Unless you are a predator ...
Israel Munoz was a senior at Kelly High School in Chicago when the teachers strike broke out last September. “Their courageous stand would change my life forever,” he said in an essay on the on-line ...
On September 19, the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation that would cut the food stamp program by nearly $40 billion over the next decade. President Obama has promised ...
The closing rally for support of the Larger Retailer Accountability Act 2013 (LRAA), was held at the John Wilson Building in Washington, DC, where approximately 150 people attended ...
Structurally, technologically and culturally speaking, there is no "music industry" any more. There is also no "movie industry" any more. Those two things have been consolidated into a more generic ...
From the beginning, this country was built on the backs of the poor. Despite what some call social and technological advancements, the survival of this country in the ways that it exists remains dependent ...
Across decades-old racial divides, our class—the working class—is beginning to unite. We are at a turning point. Something very serious, very significant, very beneficial for our class—the ...
Upon hearing of the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin travesty of justice, the Revolutionary Poets Brigade of San Francisco decided to take a cultural step forward in behalf ...
I have been involved in the water struggle since early 2000. Some people here haven’t received a water bill for over two years, but now they are being sent to various parts of the city. People will not ...
Illinois has the worst credit rating of any state in the nation. An overall pension debt of nearly $97 billion and a backlog of unpaid bills nearing $10 billion. The City of Chicago recently saw its credit ...
This is a brand new podcast by Andy and Leslie Willis. They’ve tackled subjects like the roots of morality, the electronic revolution, and public education, interviewing leaders on the front lines ...
The Benton Harbor School Board’s key function is to be flexible and responsive, to provide leadership, policy development and communication to the community. Three school board members, Willie ...
“Like Dr. King said, we have to become a more people oriented society, rather than a thing oriented society. The society, the community I imagine—a friend of mine, author David Korten talks ...
When news and radio still tell now nothing of the greed
The streets are filling rapidly by those who are in need
I watched at city hall the rich all gathered for a feast ...
Drum beats and Aztec dancers led hundreds of chanting people on an evening march from the Latino neighborhood of Roseland to the downtown square of Santa Rosa, California, October 30 ...
The Latino community is taking the lead, but revulsion to the killing of 13-year-old Andy Lopez is widespread in California's Sonoma County, where unemployment is still high following the 2008 collapse ...
