activism
Protesters target BART for cell phone cutoff
August 16, 2011The rowdy but nonviolent roving protest was directed both at the BART's cell phone shutdown and BARTs police' fatal shooting of a homeless man last month.
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Will Obama get on the bus for federal action to create jobs?
August 15, 2011President Obama began a 3-state bus tour today to Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.
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Locked-out workers take message to Crystal Sugar’s doorstep
August 15, 2011More than 600 locked out sugar workers and supporters rallied outside the headquarters of American Crystal Sugar August 11, demanding an end to the lockout.
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Protests erupt over cell phone shutdown
August 15, 2011The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit shut off cell phone access to commuters at train stations and protestors say the police violated their right to free expression.
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In Connecticut the fight for jobs is on
August 11, 2011"Connecticut workers want Congress to act on the jobs crisis with the same urgency that was brought to the manufactured political crisis over the debt ceiling."
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