Thousands join in candlelight vigils across California
More than a thousand California workers, interfaith leaders, community allies and elected officials kicked the California campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act into overdrive in recent days by participating in statewide overnight vigils.
A thousand scholars urge Congress to pass Employee Free Choice Act
More than a thousand U.S. scholars nationwide are urging Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act labor law reform
What now on health care reform?
With the new balance of forces in Washington, a path has opened for us to achieve a first, true step towards turning around our nation’s health care crisis and achieving quality, affordable health care for everyone.
Retired shingle mill worker contributes to PWW fund goal
FORKS, WA---It took Roberta Wood a 2,000 mile plane ride, two ferries, two transit bus rides and a long drive around Lake Crescent to visit Carl Lausche in the West End of Clallam County, WA. Lausche, 86, lives in a comfortable new mobile home in a clearing behind his daughter Linda’s house surrounded by miles of deep evergreen forest, mountains, and glacial rivers that teem with salmon and steelhead. The region is famed for receiving 114 inches, 12 feet of rain annually.
VIDEO Comedian Wanda Sykes skewers Rush Limbaugh
Comedian Wanda Sykes pulled no punches as she skewered extremist right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh at the White House Correspondents' Dinner -- accusing him of treason for saying he wants President Barack Obama to fail.
A nightmare interrupted: Home foreclosure is postponed
OAKLAND, Calif. -- When does keeping a promise turn into a nightmare? When it involves a home whose price has ballooned beyond reason, a realtor who fails to make loan terms clear, and a lender who refuses to modify soaring mortgage costs.
Health industry goes to White House: real reform or pre-emptive strike?
Representatives from the nation’s biggest corporate health lobbies, in a White House meeting with President Obama today, offered up a plan to voluntarily reduce health care costs by as much as $2 trillion over 10 years. Some commentators say the industry move indicates a tactical shift by the health industry lobbies. Instead of directly opposing major health care reform, as they did in the past, they are signing on to reform while zeroing in on blocking the public option that Obama has proposed.
Lawmakers try to block new abuse photos
NEW YORK, May 11 (IPS) - Civil libertarians are condemning a call by two influential U.S. senators for the White House to block the impending release of photographs showing detainees being abused by U.S. military personnel at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and at other U.S. detention facilities in the Middle East and elsewhere.
LOL President Barack Obama delivers hilarious speech
President Barack Obama gives his speech to the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, May 9, 2009.
The progressive roots of Mother's Day
Today is the 101st anniversary of Mother's Day as we know it. Over at Beliefnet, popular religion scholar Diana Butler Bass reminds us of the progressive origins of Mother's Day, which started with a Virginia native Anna Jarvis, daughter of a Southern social activist:
