Online campaign to boycott Koch Industries grows
The Koch brothers are a major funder of the tea party and several right-wing think tanks.
Targeted victims protest American Airlines bankruptcy plans
The flight attendants called the action, and the pilots and Transport Workers Union quickly joined in. Other unions and solidarity activists drove into DFW International Airport for the action.
Desperate measures? Bishops and Republicans continue fight against birth control
One would have thought that the Obama administration last week put a solid end to the fight over women's access to birth control.
Gay marriage passes Jersey senate, becomes law in Washington state
New Jersey's Senate passed a bill approving the legalization of gay marriage by a vote of 24-16
Court hears new challenge to anti-affirmative action measure
Driver said 209 made possible "resegregation of higher education" and a "new Jim Crow" in California.
Obama budget draws praise, some complaints, from labor leaders
The president's budget will be ignored in the GOP-run House, where Budget Committee Chairm Paul Ryan, R-Wis., intends to draft a proposal, which is expected to push killing of Medicare as we know it.
Environmental groups unite to stop Keystone XL
Aactivist group 350 called on everyone to send half a million messages to the Senate by the end of the day demanding "back the President and make sure this pipeline doesn't get built."
Labor groups defend different pieces of national health care law
With the national health care revision law yet to fully take effect, but under challenge before the Supreme Court, six labor organizations have stepped forward, four of them joining other groups, to defend different parts of it.
Black History Month 2012: Remembering Dalzenia Henry
When the judging for the African American History Month High School Arts and Writing Competition takes place this Friday, Dalzenia Henry's legacy will be on our minds.
Prison privatization efforts stall in Florida
Stiff opposition and a divided Florida chamber have temporarily halted a move to privatize 27 prisons in South Florida.
