Neighborhood group focuses on Nov. 2
The grassroots are preparing for the Nov. 2 elections in Illinois.
Poverty up, uninsured up
The Great Recession hit home and hit hard in 2009, the Census Bureau said, as the number of uninsured leaped by 4.4 million in one year.
Wisconsin GOP plots vote suppression
A coordinated plot by the Republican Party, tea party and billionaire Koch brothers to suppress the vote in Wisconsin on Election Day has been exposed.
Gold companies make big profits with Glenn Beck
Hate radio is extremely profitable, particularly if you are in the gold business.
Baltimore backs Oct. 2 march
The City Council has voted unanimously to endorse the October 2 One Nation Working Together march, and a local coalition is working to fill 100 buses.
“Ageing and raging” seniors demand Calif. budget
There were signs: "So they take from the sick and the poor!" "Seniors count - seniors care!" "Ageing and raging!" and there were songs: "Let's put the home care in and take the tax cuts out!"
Civil liberties advocates slam pay-to-protest ruling
SAN ANTONIO - Progressive activists here are considering further action against a ruling by a three-judge appeals panel that the police department can selectively penalize free speech rights.
Jobs and sustainable future threatened by California's Prop. 23
Whichever way California's Proposition 23 goes in the November elections so could go green jobs, government and private investment in clean technology, and a sustainable economy.
Groups demand pardon for Scott Sisters in Mississippi
A rally last week in Jackson, Miss., called for freedom for Jamie and Gladys Scott, two Black women given double life sentences in 1992 for allegedly being accessories to an armed robbery in which $11 was stolen.
Obama says he won’t budge on ending Bush tax cuts for the rich
"What I ask the Tea Party is, ‘Would you cut veterans' benefits, end Medicare, end Social Security?'”
