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Climate change: Obama signals end to era of denial

January 28, 2009 By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (IPS) - Environmental activists have hailed the first moves by U.S. President Barack Obama to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions by setting tough new fuel efficiency and pollution standards for the country's...

Ohio town hall calls for end to raids

January 28, 2009

ASHTABULA, Ohio — Labor, community and religious leaders called for a united effort to end inhuman immigration raids, arrests and deportations at a town hall meeting here. The event, sponsored by the Ohio Coalition for Immigrant...

Alabama Mardi Gras in black and white

January 25, 2009

MovieREVIEW The Order of Myths Directed by Margaret Brown U.S. 2008, 93 min., Unrated In “The Order of Myths,” a documentary directed by Margaret Brown, we learn that in 1981, 19-year-old Black youth Michael Donald was...

OPINION: Senate Dems flex legislative muscle on fair pay

January 25, 2009

By a vote of 61 to 36, the Senate passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act this week, a bill that had broad support from civil rights organizations, the labor movement, and women's equality groups. In...

Obamas stimulus plan must be passed now

January 24, 2009 By John Case

The $825 billion stimulus plan proposed by Congress and applauded by Barack Obama should be approved immediately. Despite some noted imperfections — probably too much is dedicated to tax cuts, and even though it is the...