Three California Department of Corrections inmates involved in the prison hunger strike have committed suicide. CDCR is making it very difficult for family members and advocates to get any information on these recent deaths. Official reports are claiming that these deaths are unrelated to the recent hunger strikes in these prisons. Many people believe that [...]
Barack Obama has continued virtually all of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney’s once-controversial terrorism and civil liberties policies. Even the right wing acknowledges these polices have continued under the Obama presidency. The first area where we see this is in indefinite detention—the idea that human beings can be caged for years without an opportunity [...]
People in disadvantaged neighborhoods have seen unhappy days from, despair, poverty, violence, crime, drugs, sub par schools, and everything else the slums of America has to endure. These neighborhoods won’t be getting better anytime soon, because the rich are moving into wealthy enclaves. They are taking their money and businesses to suburban areas. This leaves [...]
On December 3rd through 6th, 2011 in Bangalore, India, a Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) will convene to indict the Agrochemical Transnationals; Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, Syngenta, DuPont, and BASF for gross violations of human rights. The cases were brought by farmers, agricultural workers, Indigenous peoples, fisher folk, women, children and youth, scientists, consumers and activists. “Whether [...]
The 99 Percent Movement was born out of the fact that the country has grown incredibly unequal and millions of Americans are struggling to get by. The richest 1 percent of the country now owns more than 40 percent of the wealth and takes home nearly a quarter of national income. The American [...]
First, Hormel gutted the union. Then it sped up the line. And when the pig-brain machine made workers sick, they got canned. On the cut-and-kill floor of Quality Pork Processors Inc. formally Hormel, in Austin, Minnesota, the wind always blows. From the open doors at the docks where drivers unload massive trailers of screeching pigs, [...]
The Occupy Wall Street protests are bringing long-overdue attention to issues of economic injustice, including the unfair and irresponsible practices of the financial industry and the need for an economy that works for all of us. The protests are bringing a lot of attention to themselves including that of the Vatican. The Vatican is [...]
October 14th, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States Special Forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. Within the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic to only “engage” for “self-defence.” Like all America’s subsequent invasions, a trail of blood [...]
A controversial provision in the National Defense Authorization Bill that would “affirm” the President’s supposed power to wage perpetual war anywhere on Earth against undefined enemies — including Americans in the United States — is attracting fierce criticism from across the political spectrum. The language was inserted into the bill by Rep. Howard McKeon [...]
Researchers found a six-fold increase in the risk of developing Parkinson’s in individuals exposed in the workplace to trichloroethylene (TCE). Although many uses for TCE have been banned around the world, the chemical is still used as a degreasing agent. Parkinson’s can result in limb tremors, slowed movement and speech impairment, but the exact cause [...]
