Reckless Republicans push closer to a government shutdown
The chances of avoiding a goverment shutdown in five days are becoming slimmer and slimmer, and the union AFGE is in full mobilization mode against it.
Death of an adjunct
Margaret Mary Vojtko, an adjunct professor of French for 25 years, died underpaid and underappreciated at age 83.
House Republicans quit bipartisan immigration group
A blow was dealt against a possible bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill in the House of Representatives when two more Republican members withdrew. However, immigrant rights activists vow that they will not be deterred.
Right wing rebuked in Missouri
Right-wing Republicans in the Missouri legislature and their main financial supporter, libertarian billionaire Rex Sinquefield, suffered a stinging defeat.
Occupy Wall Street stages second anniversary march in New York
Occupy Wall Street was back on the streets here yeserday, marking the second anniversary of its birth.
A rising tide lifts only yachts?
Letting wealth concentrate "at the very top," President Obama said, has been both "morally wrong" and "bad economics."
Public transit, living wage top 2014 “people’s” agenda
"No worker should have to live off of poverty wages. People should be able to work 40 hours a week and take care of their families off of that."
Court orders gov’t to show info on secret funding of anti-Cuban 5 press
The U.S. State Department must respond to a Freedom of Information Request asking for info on the under the table payment of Miami area journalists covering the Cuban 5 trial.
Campaign launched to rename Nathan Bedford Forrest H.S.
Progressives say the true symbolism behind the name change is that of social justice, a solid stepping stone for the South to "rise again."
Co-op banks to invest in worker-owned U.S. businesses
The world's largest industrial, worker-owned and run cooperative, Spanish-based Mondragon and its bank, Laboral Kutxa, agreed to partner with U.S. based National Cooperative Bank to invest in U.S. cooperative businesses.
