Big Corporations Get Big Bailouts - Who’s Gonna Bail Out the Middle Class
Mon, 5/01/09 – 21:49 | 2 Comments

by John Marra
Not sure who will read this, but I saw Mr Cerf on CSPAN this morning and he got me thinking.
I’m a recently unemployed Detroit union autoworker. This whole Detroit situation was completely avoidable …

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Bigotry Still Rules
Monday, 5 Jan, 2009 – 23:00 | 2 Comments
Bigotry Still Rules

by Lisa Szefel –
In the summer of 2006 I attended the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard. One of the guest presenters was 95-year-old Johnnie Carr, …

Yolie Flores Aguilar: Where Los Angeles Schools Go From Here
Sunday, 4 Jan, 2009 – 11:00 | 3 Comments
Yolie Flores Aguilar: Where Los Angeles Schools Go From Here

by Sharon Kyle and Dick Price –
Yolie Flores Aguilar, Los Angeles School Board member and long-time children’s advocate, thinks that the city’s school system will implode if something dramatic isn’t done—and soon. The ouster of …

Havana and Hamas: Obama Can Chart a New Course at Last
Friday, 2 Jan, 2009 – 6:01 | One Comment
Havana and Hamas: Obama Can Chart a New Course at Last

by Tom Hall –
As we lament the horrors in the Gaza Strip, currently playing out on our televisions, we might be well served to reflect on 50 years of Castro’s regime in Cuba, and what …

“Please Cry For Me, I’m Al Gonzales.”
Thursday, 1 Jan, 2009 – 15:00 | 2 Comments
“Please Cry For Me, I’m Al Gonzales.”

by Charley James –
Like tens of millions – and growing – of his increasingly desperate countrymen, he is out of work and cannot find a job; worse, nobody in his chosen profession will even interview …

The 10 Worst People Of The Year; Wait, Actually There’s Only One
Wednesday, 31 Dec, 2008 – 18:39 | 4 Comments
The 10 Worst People Of The Year; Wait, Actually There’s Only One

by Charley James –
I detest the Top 10 lists sprouting up daily: Newspapers, magazines, television, cable, blogs, whatever. One acquaintance in New Mexico sent a mass e-mail to everyone in her Outlook directory asking each …

The White-Collar Working Class: Has the American Middle Class Gone into Foreclosure?
Tuesday, 30 Dec, 2008 – 6:35 | 3 Comments
The White-Collar Working Class: Has the American Middle Class Gone into Foreclosure?

by Brian Purnell –
Last year, according to the New York Times, the average debt in the United States was $121,650, while the average savings was just shy of $450. You don’t need a PhD in …

Honor the People of Conscience
Monday, 29 Dec, 2008 – 6:51 | One Comment
Honor the People of Conscience

by Diane Lefer –
As the President-elect prepares to fulfill his word to close Guantánamo and ban torture, there’s more he can do. Sure, I’d love to see members of the outgoing administration prosecuted and hope …

White House, US Media, Picking Sides In Israeli Terror Bombings
Sunday, 28 Dec, 2008 – 14:00 | No Comment
White House, US Media, Picking Sides In Israeli Terror Bombings

by Charley James –
By now, no one should be surprised that the White House is taking its usual, uneven and heavy-handed approach in reacting to the gargantuan Israeli shock-and-awe bombing of densely populated areas of …

Brinks or Blackwater: My Frightening Encounter With A Combat-Mode Guard & His Gun
Friday, 26 Dec, 2008 – 13:00 | 2 Comments
Brinks or Blackwater: My Frightening Encounter With A Combat-Mode Guard & His Gun

by Linda Milazzo –
For years since the United States invaded Iraq, I’ve witnessed countless photo and video images of innocent civilians - men, women, teens and children - being rudely and aggressively threatened by hired …

Printing Poetry
Thursday, 25 Dec, 2008 – 6:00 | One Comment
Printing Poetry

by Wendy Block –
Back from Best Buy one recent evening with my new all-in-one inkjet, I finally began connecting it to the computer just before midnight. When I next glanced at a clock, it was …

Shoehorning the Bush Legacy
Wednesday, 24 Dec, 2008 – 6:09 | No Comment
Shoehorning the Bush Legacy

by Ivan Eland –
Although we thought that the signature moment of George W. Bush’s presidency would have been his standing in a flight suit before the “Mission Accomplished” banner on an aircraft carrier after the …

Exclusion, Inclusion and Change: Is Rick Warren Today’s Ebenezer Scrooge?
Tuesday, 23 Dec, 2008 – 18:00 | 2 Comments
Exclusion, Inclusion and Change: Is Rick Warren Today’s Ebenezer Scrooge?

by Tom Hall –
Do you remember what Scrooge did when he woke after that terrible night with the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and yet to be? He flung open his window and told a …

Prop 8, Jim Crow, Nuremberg, and Other Unjust Laws
Monday, 22 Dec, 2008 – 6:00 | One Comment
Prop 8, Jim Crow, Nuremberg, and Other Unjust Laws

by David A. Love –
Forty years ago, in many states, my marriage to my wife would have been illegal. In fact, we would have been regarded as criminals and locked up for miscegenation, or “race-mixing” …

On Obama, the Hate-Filled Pastor, and Unity
Saturday, 20 Dec, 2008 – 6:00 | 3 Comments
On Obama, the Hate-Filled Pastor, and Unity

by Natalie Davis –
The progressive and GLBT communites are up in arms over President-elect Obama’s decision to have antigay, right-wing Christian evangelical preacher Rick Warren deliver his inaugural invocation. I share their dismay to be …

Goodbye, “Uncle Larry,” Hello (Again) “Uncle Clarence:” Are Black Conservatives Still Relevant?
Friday, 19 Dec, 2008 – 13:00 | One Comment
Goodbye, “Uncle Larry,” Hello (Again) “Uncle Clarence:” Are Black Conservatives Still Relevant?

by Anthony Asadullah Samad –
The announcement that syndicated talk radio host, Larry Elder, was leaving his daily radio “squawk show” shouldn’t go without notice. Elder is a major remnant of the “colorblind” conservative movement that …

Gay is NOT the New Black
Thursday, 18 Dec, 2008 – 6:00 | 3 Comments
Gay is NOT the New Black

by Rev. Irene Monroe –
If you are African American and gay, and fighting alongside your white LGBTQ brothers and sisters for queer civil rights, the notion that “gay is the new black” is not only …