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  • Faulty economics and the French elections

    Faulty economics and the French elections

    May 4, 2007

    The elections in France demonstrate the power of faulty economic analysis, and more generalized problems with arithmetic, to shape ideas and possibly the future of not only a nation but a continent. The United States has...

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  • Ohio labor runs for office

    Ohio labor runs for office

    May 4, 2007

    LORAIN, Ohio — One Central Labor Federation in northern Ohio has really taken the national AFL-CIO resolutions on political action to heart, at least the part that calls on union members to run for office. Four...

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  • Black leaders probe rights violations on border

    Black leaders probe rights violations on border

    May 4, 2007

    TUCSON, Ariz. — A 14-member delegation of African Americans investigated human rights abuses of immigrants, Mexican Americans and indigenous communities on the U.S.-Mexican border, in an April 26-29 fact-finding tour here. The “Braving Borders Building Bridges:...

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  • Organizing heats up to defend womens rights

    Organizing heats up to defend womens rights

    May 4, 2007 By Susan Webb

    Last November, South Dakota voters overturned a state abortion ban by a 12 percent margin. The April 18 Supreme Court anti-abortion ruling shows the court is “farther to the right than these conservative ‘red states’ voters,”...

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  • Labors flame still burns for justice

    Labors flame still burns for justice

    May 4, 2007

    CHICAGO — August Spies told his executioners that if they went ahead with the hanging they would ignite a fire that could never be put out. He and three other Haymarket martyrs were indeed hanged because...

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