Chicago protests to stop 54 school closings heat up
"We are not going without a fight!" declared nine-year-old Asean Johnson, a third grader at Marcus Garvey Elementary School. "We shall not be moved today!"
After avoiding billions in taxes, Apple CEO seeks more breaks
As his company hordes $102 billion in overseas profits on which it has paid no taxes, Apple's CEO, Tom Cook, is asking the Senate for lower corporate tax rates.
Education coalition assails wide use of temporary faculty
Elite colleges are being reserved for the very wealthy and higher education for the 99 percent becoming more standardized, impersonal, low quality or completely out-of-reach.
Phone conference: DREAM activists put it all on the line for immigration justice
Please dial in to join us for an important teleconference Tuesday evening, May 21, called "Dream activists put it all on the line for immigration justice"
Subscribers protest Koch brothers Orlando Sentinel grab
Central Floridians protest Koch brothers scheme to buy Orlando Sentinel and turn it into the "Tea Party Tribune."
Will Parry, labor and retiree advocate, 1920-2013
Will Parry," a warrior for working people for more than seven decades," died May 13 at the age of 93.
Despite growing revenue, Calif. governor shrinks budget proposal
Not surprisingly, Republican legislators praised Brown's budget, with Republican Assembly leader Connie Conway calling it "realistic."
Support grows for immigration reform, end to deportations
In spite of efforts to play African-Americans and Latino immigrants against each other, support for immigration reform is solid within the African-American community.
Republicans add AP to Obama “scandal” pile
"We regard this action by the Department of Justice as a serious interference with AP's constitutional rights to gather and report the news."
