News
Obama honors César Chavezs birthday
April 2, 2009Original source: What a difference a year makes. While the Bush White House tried to thwart workers’ rights and all that the late César Chávez fought for, Barack Obama adopted Chávez’s rallying cry as his campaign...
Read more
Chicago rallies for Employee Free Choice
April 2, 2009CHICAGO – Imagine the day when working people’s right to decide to join a union is guaranteed and protected by law. That day will come, many argue, when the Employee Free Choice Act is finally signed...
Read more
Senate hearing urges job creation
April 2, 2009WASHINGTON—Leading economists told the Senate, Mar. 30, that more, not less federal funds are needed to create millions more jobs to pull the nation out of the deepest recession since the Great Depression. They warned that...
Read more
U.S. and Russia reopen nuke talks as peace movement warns of NATO war danger
April 2, 2009The United States and Russia announced jointly April 1 that they are aiming to put a new nuclear arms treaty in place before the existing one expires in December. The announcement caused a dramatic stir at...
Read more
The Obama budget and the environment: How cap-and-trade works
April 2, 2009Did you know that the US already has a cap-and-trade system? Passed as part of the 1990 Clean Air Act by a Democratic Congress and signed into law by George H.W. Bush, the cap on sulfur...
Read more