Right now former President George W. Bush, who appointed John Roberts as Chief Justice, must be having a Dwight Eisenhower moment… When…
Monthly Archives: June 2012
The radical Albert Einstein
Did you know that Albert Einstein was a radical who used his world-wide celebrity as a scientist to battle militarism,…
The 2012 Election
The New York Times recently published this provocative article, “Capitalists and Other Psychopaths,” which is worth reading. Of course not everyone in the 1%…
Occupiers want an end to Outrageous Student Debt
Another by-product of the Occupy movement has been the growing uproar over mounting student debt. This was a key aspects…
Vital Lessons from the past – the LA Riots
Riots, Protest and Organizing: Lessons From the 20th Anniversary of the LA Riots The 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots…
Teresa Sullivan reinstated!
Sometimes the good guys (and gals) win!! Two cheers for the University of Virginia faculty fighting back against the business-school…
Occupy, Obama 2012, Public Campaign and the fight for a strong progressive movement…
Sarah Jaffe wrote this interesting article in Truthout, “What Occupiers Learned from Obama – And What He Should Learn From Them.” Jaffe…
Remembering Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin — the trailblazing civil rights activist and the organizer of the famous March on Washington in 1963 —…
More Success for Occupy
More evidence of the effectiveness of the growing protest movement is the recent enacted of “responsible banking ordinances” in several…
Success in the Occupy Movement
Many unions and community organizing groups have been challenging corporate power and fighting for consumers, workers, and communities for many years, but…