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Week of action unites students, workers
April 11, 2008Imagine a world where everyone who chooses to can go to college. A world where workers on school campuses and in communities have a voice about their working conditions, where the fruits and vegetables that people...
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Record numbers of Americans rely on food stamps
April 11, 2008CHICAGO — Human suffering, more than Wall Street indicators, tells us the world’s richest nation is plunging into its most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression, while the Iraq war continues to drain the nation’s...
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Blogging from India #8 — India’s neighbors: South Asia update
April 11, 2008Historic elections in this impoverished Hindu kingdom will take place April 15. The monarchy, which has ruled Nepal for more than 200 years, is expected to be abolished and a parliamentary form of democracy will take...
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Decision time for Colombia: Labor rights or death
April 10, 2008As the countdown begins for Congress to vote on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, debate is intensifying on both sides of the issue. On April 7 President Bush sent the agreement to Congress. Under fast track...
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Causes Dr. King fought for are very much with us
April 10, 2008WASHINGTON (PAI) — The causes the late Dr. Martin Luther King fought for, including racial justice, economic equality and ending a misguided war “are very much with us today,” says a labor historian and author of...
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