
Brave activists who broke into FBI office in '71 remembered
I was the Washington correspondent of the Daily World and received a packet in the mail of top secret FBI documents exposing the surveillance of tens of thousands of law-abiding people.

Today in history: The Americans with Disabilities Act signed 25 years ago
It was dedicated activism that accomplished these measures so that the benefits of living in a modern society can be accessed by millions more people.

Walker offers rightwing policies tried and tested in his Wisconsin lab
Wisconsin stands as the actual laboratory of failure for Republican ideology and pain for the people.

Los Angeles does it again: $15 an hour!
The nation's largest local government voted to raise the minimum wage for county employees and workers employed in the unincorporated areas -- 1.2 and 1.6 million workers.

Unionists, retirees to lead mass pro-Medicare rallies on July 30
Unions also want to use the rallies to again push for "Medicare for all," namely government-run single-payer national health insurance.

Justice for Tamir Rice dealt legal blow ahead of civil rights conference
An Ohio appeals court declined to force the arrest of the Cleveland police officers involved in the murder of 12-year old Tamir Rice.

Scam videos try to destroy Planned Parenthood - again
An individual with ties to far-right video scammers has launched a new video attack on Planned Parenthood.

San Diego gathering features the worst of American politics
Most of what's wrong with American politics today is on display from now through the weekend in a downtown hotel in San Diego.

Dead at 28, Sandra Bland's Texas dream turned nightmare
According to federal statistics, an African-American driver is 31 percent more likely to be pulled over for a traffic citation.

Black Lives Matter disrupts Netroots presidential forum
"Welcome to Arizona where a black trans-woman cannot walk down the street; where Martin Luther King Day was repealed by a Republican governor."

