War on women extends to workplaces
There are disturbing trends regarding war on women and the workplace, especially public sevtor workers, including teachers, and hotel and hospitality workers in the private sector.
Women deserve factual medical information, even about abortion care
Decisions about medical procedures and patient care should be left to clinicians and their patients - not to politicians. As a family physician, I understand this.
The soul of the NRA
Recently I had the opportunity to attend the National Rifle Association's 141st Annual Convention, held in St. Louis, Missouri.
Debbie Amis Bell: Memories of a Freedom Rider
"Solitary" meant an unfurnished cell with a concrete floor. No bed, no furniture; a hole in the floor for a toilet.
Celebrating the life of Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune's commitment to the advancement of black women and indeed all women makes her a true American hero.
Foxconn and socialism in China
How can there be such abuses, and class conflicts, under socialism? Doesn't socialism promise and end to class conflict, and create a classless society?
Occupy's 89%? Where anarchism shuns unionists, it allies with the ultra-right
Anarchist collectives in the Occupy movement in Oakland and the Pacific Northwest have put forward a new slogan, "We are the 89%." This threatens to destroy any alliance between the Occupy movement and organized labor.
"Cut from Plain Cloth, The 2011 Wisconsin Workers Protests"
As you turn the pages of this outstanding work, it is clear that it was complied with the same love, spirit, and determination that fueled the protests themselves.
Happy birthday, Marian Anderson! (with video)
Mariann Anderson, the great contralto, perhaps the most renowned of the 20th century, would have been 115 years old today.
University of Pennsylvania awards Du Bois honorary doctorate
Today would have been the 144th birthday of WEB Du Bois, the great scholar, civil rights and peace activist.
