Mexican supermarket workers and union condemn E-Verify
Mexican supermarket (mercado) workers, supporters and union organizers marched through the Latino immigrant community on San Jose's East Side.
Unions back universities in race and admissions Supreme Court case
Declaring that, still, "race matters" in schools and society, unionsare siding with top universities in a U.S. Supreme Court case on the role of race in college admissions.
U.S. Army stands down worldwide to focus on suicide prevention
More U.S. soldiers are now killing themselves than are being killed in the wars in the Middle East. The Army brass ordered the stand down after July figures showed a record high 26 soldiers died in probable suicides. Find out what GIs and veterans are doing to prevent it.
Polls show Romney’s ship running aground
The Quinnipiac/New York Times/CBS News poll of likely voters released today, taken entirely after Mitt Romney's 47% remarks, show his campaign running aground.
Romney's plane window flub shows his head's in the clouds
The next time Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney boards a plane, he'd like to be able to roll his window down.
Tea party targets 10 million Latinos for vote suppression
Tea party affiliated groups have added voter suppression efforts to their long-standing anti-immigrant policies, Latino leaders charge.
Ohioans “all fired up” by GOP vote suppression effort
100 public officials and supporters rallied in a show of determination to overcome efforts to stop Ohioans from voting in the presidential election.
Big business and GOP block Florida sick-time ballot measure
Progressive forces have had the prospect of paid sick time, an advance for low-wage workers, snatched from them, at least temporarily, by big business forces and their allies .
A fight grows in Brooklyn to save SUNY Downstate
Public health professionals are working to save hundreds of jobs and preserve community services here at a state university-run medical center, the fourth largest employer in the borough
Group sees the disabled as their own best spokespeople
Marian Bacon has worked at The Memphis Center for Independent Living, an action and advocacy organization for people with disabilities, for over five years.
