We are Barry Bonds
The news has been filled in recent months with stories about the surreptitious use of performance enhancing drugs by many of our sports heroes. Superstars like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Marion Jones reportedly have used steroids to pump up their bodies and give them a competitive advantage.
Shipyard workers organize to stop 21st century slavery
PASCAGOULA, Miss.-- More than 100 workers, carrying signs reading 'I Am A Man,' walked off the job at a Mississippi shipyard March 11 to protest conditions of slavery.
Psychologists condemn torture
The American Psychological Association’s Council of Representatives has introduced new wording in a resolution to clarify the ethical responsibilities of psychologists in harsh interrogation techniques.
Winter Soldiers offer look at reality in Iraq
Soldier, Camilo Mejia, who spent nine months in prison for refusing to return to Iraq combat, appealed for an outpouring of resistance to the five-year Iraq war as the war enters its sixth year with no end in sight.
McCain Revealed: same Bush policies, different wrapping
Everywhere Republican presidential candidate John McCain goes these days he is finding union activists confronting him on economic issues and demanding that he speak to working families’ concerns. Since March 1, union members have held actions at McCain events in Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis and in New Hampshire.
Ideas abound in art exhibit featuring African American artists
HOUSTON – The beauty and genius of Black artists was readily apparent in a new exhibit at the University Museum at Texas Southern University (through March 22) titled “Art Official Intelligence.” Texas Southern University is the second largest Historically Black University in the United States and has recently been under attack by right-wing Bush cronies. Nevertheless, the university continues to maintain its dignity and commands respect for the outstanding contributions it continues to make to the Houston community. The university serves as the intellectual anchor of the African American community here. It continues to further the civil rights struggle as well.
National dialogue needed on our overflowing jails
In 2008 in the United States of America more than 1 out of every 100 adults is behind bars.
Letters - March 15, 2008
Punishment does not fit the crime Some Texas prison history End torture Property vs. liberty
