Steel workers campaign to bring outsourced jobs home
"It makes no sense that manufacturing workers and taxpayers are still being asked to subsidize the cost of shipping our jobs overseas with a tax loophole that should be eliminated."
Chicagoans take to the streets against school cuts
The meeting came on the heels of the announcement that CPS was cutting over $50 million from neighborhood schools and diverting it to politically connected charter school.
U.S. policy driving the children north
The poverty and suffering of Guatemalans, and especially indigenous Guatemalans, is rooted in long term U.S. policy in the region.
Convergence in Jacksonville to call for Marissa Alexander's freedom
Regional and national activists will come together to support domestic violence survivor Marissa Alexander and strengthen opposition to mandatory minimum sentencing.
Teachers unions to Education Secretary Duncan: Leave!
The AFT convention has a blunt message for Education Secretary Arne Duncan: You flunk the test of helping the nation's schools and kids, so leave.
NEA’s Eskelsen-García promises tougher line on public school critics
"No commercial, mass-produced, industrial-strength standardized factory test should ever be used as the determining factor for any student or adult."
Labor movement demands immediate relief for 11 million immigrants
The AFL-CIO has demanded that President Obama take administrative action to remove the threat of deportation hanging over some 11 million immigrants.
Dallas opts to take immigrant children
Up to 2,000 immigrant children will be cared for in Dallas under a plan announced by County Judge Clay Jenkins at the Texas Democratic Party Convention June 28.
Groups file suit demanding legal representation for child deportees
Each year, the government initiates immigration court proceedings against thousands of children, some of whom have lived in the U.S. for years.
New York activists expect massive September climate march at UN
"Make it bigger, make it bolder, make it more challenging, because literally the whole world will be watching."
