AFL-CIO and Organized Labor: Let’s Talk About Building a Movement

With unions facing a not-so-gradual decline toward irrelevance, leaders are having “a come-to-Jesus moment.”

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Why Fruitvale Station Should Be Required Viewing For All Americans

Fruitvale Station, the latest entry in a growing list of movies that may help spark a civil rights movement in America, shows what the struggle of being black in modern America looks like.

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Reporting from Raleigh: 9 Ways to Organize the Next Civil Rights Movement

North Carolina's Moral Monday protests — where nearly 1,000 have been arrested in just 12 weeks — could be a way for the South to become progressive again, while cultivating strong community leaders to run for local office.

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Worldwide GMO Labeling Laws

Breakdown of GMO Labeling Laws in Each Country. Dozens of major countries, including the BRIC nations and nearly all of Europe, have mandatory labeling laws for genetically modified (GM) foods. The U.S., Canada and Mexico do not. Is there a disconnect here?

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Manning Conviction Under Espionage Act Is Blatant Threat to Civil Liberties

Tuesday's verdict convicting Bradley Manning on 20 counts represents the first time under the Obama administration that any leaker of official secrets has been convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act.

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How Students Are Sparking a Direct Democracy Movement in Slovenia

A Slovenian student movement plans to initiate direct digital democracy to advocate for worker-owned means of production, participatory budgeting and greater government transparency.

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Green Light for City-Owned San Francisco Bank

Do taxpayers want to have their public money in a bank that has been proven to be defrauding them? San Francisco may be leading the way toward creating a municipal bank that is in the public's interest.

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Exxon Mobil to Pay $105 Million for Contaminating New York City's Groundwater

The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a verdict that found Exxon contaminated water supply wells in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Reeling From Fatal School Poisonings, Indians Wrestle With a Corrupt Food Program

The Gandaman food poisoning disaster should serve as a wake-up call: we owe at least one hot and safe meal a day to our children.

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Three Demands to Congress: Student Loans, Glass-Steagall & a Financial Transaction Tax

People rule in a democracy. Not Wall Street, not banks, not money. This is something apparently forgotten by Congress.

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