National
Labor summit: Beat Bush agenda, save affirmative action!
May 5, 2006DETROIT — A clarion call for unity was sounded at a Labor Summit on Affirmative Action and Segregation here April 28. Conference-goers heard the Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm...
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350,000 march for peace and justice
May 5, 2006NEW YORK — On a perfect spring day 350,000 people flowed down Broadway April 29, marching to bring the troops home from Iraq, for health care and education, to rebuild a nation torn by war, hurricanes...
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United we march — Sí se puede!
May 5, 2006It was a May 1 like no other. On the day celebrated around the world as International Workers Day, 2 million-plus people marched in the U.S. for justice and a path to citizenship for immigrant workers.
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Southern labor stirs in North Carolina, again
April 29, 2006Red Springs, N.C. — North Carolina is one of the most industrialized states in the country. Yet it still has one of the lowest percentages of workers in unions, though not from lack of trying by...
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Displaced Katrina survivors lose health care benefits
April 29, 2006As Medicaid waivers begin to expire, Katrina evacuees who need health care are growing ever more desperate. In September 2005, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), the federal agency which administers Medicaid, initiated a...
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