
The new health care law and you – Ask a doc!
A group of physicians here has formed a speakers bureau dubbed, "The New Healthcare Law and You - Ask a Doc!"

Activists abuzz over Bayer’s bee killing
Some 90+ activists gathered in San Pablo Park in West Berkeley, California, near where one of the Bayer facilities was located, to protest the company's insect-killing.

Immigrant rights activists say keep families together
Vargas, the father of four U.S. citizen children, has led a crime free life but now sits in a Monroe County jail.

Massachusetts: job creation up, unemployment down
Perhaps the nation's most Democratic and liberal state, Massachusetts has experienced months of declining unemployment rates.

Latina moms in Chicago: “We’re done crying!”
Except for one grandmother, the rest of the 20 or so women who patrol the streets around Davis Elementary School here every weekday are in their 20s and 30s.

VIDEO Depicted as gorilla, African American doctor sues UCLA for racism
A respected African American faculty surgeon filed a racial discrimination suit against the UCLA Medical Center and UC Regents after they refused to take action on blatant acts of racism.

Chicago activists protest Heartland Institute conference
Over a dozen environmental activists gathered to protest the Heartland Institute, which put up ads comparing environmentalists to the Unabomber.

Thousands wrongly convicted
In the last 23 years alone, more than 2,000 people were falsely convicted, but probably far more people are in prison for crimes they did not commit.

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans return medals at NATO protest
U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars threw their medals towards the site of the NATO Summit May 20 in what was called the most dramatic antiwar action by ex-GIs since Vietnam.

Three cheers for Mariela Castro’s visit to the U.S.
Mariela Castro, staunch advocate and supporter of LGBT causes, daughter of Raul Castro and neice to Fidel Castro, is coming to the United States.

