After three decades of being handled with kids gloves by national media, the national network of anti-immigrant organizations is now confident enough that they are jettisoning any veneer of respectability. One such organization, Social Contract Press, showed just how extreme … Continued
“He entered upon the canvass with a reputation confined to his own state. He closes it with his name a household word wherever the principles he holds are honored and with the respect of his opponents in all sections of … Continued
The American Economy will never recover if workers are robbed of their wages. When workers suffer from wage theft, the economy feels it too. According to Kim Bobo, founder and executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice, in her new book … Continued
Sheriff Joe Arpaio finds any excuse to separate families. It’s 2009 and the terrorizing continues in Arizona’s Maricopa County. A community organizer last week documented a heartbreaking scene of a mother, Ciria Lopez, being stopped by Sheriff’s Joe’s self-proclaimed “posse”. … Continued
Today I filled out my first application for an American passport and mailed it out. As I dropped the envelope in the mail box, I felt the significance of that moment. Symbolically, the envelope represented a tangible break with the … Continued
Charles Tyson, mayor of South Harrison, NJ resigned earlier this month citing racism and death threats against him and his family. South Harrison is a small town of 2700 people in south New Jersey that elects mayors to a one … Continued
I looked over the Energy Plan at barackobama.com today, and I can’t help but feel hot and cold about it. His plan unquestionably aims to give assistance to middle class and low income households, which is certainly imperative at this … Continued
There is a deepening sense of frustration, cynicism, and growing anger brewing across the country, tempered only, for now, by the dim expectation that the Obama Administration might turn things around. Time for a turnaround, however, is short, and the … Continued
Yesterday was the birthday of HAL 9000, one of the creepiest film villains ever in the 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” HAL’s silky tenor voice coddles,and then terrorizes the hero Dave, until Dave defeats the computer with a simple … Continued
The Bush Administration must get some kind of perverse pleasure out of kicking people when they’re down. Nothing else could explain their most recent blow to the rights of America’s downtrodden. This time they’ve stripped away the right to legal … Continued