Shrimp workers exploited and enslaved at Walmart warehouse
Two thousand shrimp workers from Cambodia and Myanmar suffered human rights abuses and indentured servitude at the hands of Walmart.
Struggle for prison health care enters new phase
Last month California unveiled a comprehensive plan on how to ensure "a quality medical care system for years to come."
Unions back law to protect pregnant workers
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act would ensure that pregnant workers are not forced out of their jobs or denied job modifications that would allow them to continue working.
With Lugar defeat GOP races farther right
Lugar's defeat is seen as a loss to advocates for a sensible foreign policy.
Republican war spreads to students
Republican senators today filibustered the Stop Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act. Their action threatens to create havoc with the economy, and wreck the country's future.
Senate hearing targets Ohio voter suppression law
Filling a federal courtroom and adjacent overflow room, some 300 Cleveland area residents heard two hours of testimony on Ohio's new voter suppression law.
Obama tears into Romney at campaign kickoff
In his first official rally of the 2012 campaign, the president ripped Mitt Romney before a crowd of about 14,000.
Greenpeace occupiers fight Shell’s Arctic drilling
A different type of collective action took place - a coordinated effort by Greenpeace activists to stop oil giant Shell from drilling in the arctic.
Jobs grow by only 115,000 in April
The nation had its second straight month of disappointing job growth in April, according to government figures released today.
Guthrie still lives in Minnesota
Many grow up learning to sing "This Land Is Your Land," but you likely didn't learn the little-known verses with Guthrie's critique of inequality.
