News
Mississippi on the mind and Cuba
May 4, 2007In a front-page story April 22, The New York Times reported that infant mortality rates (IMR) in Mississippi and other Southern states are rising. The IMR measures the number of first-year infant deaths per thousand births....
Read more
Faulty economics and the French elections
May 4, 2007The 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...
Read more
Ohio labor runs for office
May 4, 2007LORAIN, 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...
Read more
Black leaders probe rights violations on border
May 4, 2007TUCSON, 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:...
Read more
Organizing heats up to defend womens rights
May 4, 2007Last 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,”...
Read more