April 18-22: Days of action to demand end to U.S. blockade of Cuba

April 11, 2016

Grassroots advocates for ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba -- which still chokes off trade with the…

Obama and the Cuban Economy

April 11, 2016

The following is the first part of an article published in CubaDebate on April 7 by Agustín Lage Dávila, who…

Demanding answers as Black student dies in Iowa jail

April 11, 2016

Des Moines, Iowa -- Thirty-eight-year-old Lamont Walls died at Broadlawn’s Hospital in Des Moines after being found unconscious in his cell…

Oklahoma earthquakes spike opposition to oil and gas industry

April 11, 2016

The state of Oklahoma had five earthquakes on April 3.  There had been 29 earthquakes in the previous week, 222…

$1,000-a-pill is death sentence for HCV patients

April 11, 2016

Foster City, Calif. -- One Harvoni pill a day for 12 weeks can cure hepatitis C with a 95 percent success…

Japan’s prime minister defies anti-war public

April 10, 2016

As 40,000 Japanese anti-war protesters were demonstrating in Tokyo on March 22, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet approved the enactment…

How Wall Street protest opened door to organizing anti-war soldiers

April 10, 2016

April 12, 1966. Fifteen young women and men slipped into the New York Stock Exchange. They didn’t belong there. They…

Newark children exposed to lead

April 8, 2016

Nearly half the schools in Newark, N.J., were temporarily shut down on March 9 when elevated levels of lead were…

Brooklyn, N.Y.: ‘Affordable for WHO?’

April 8, 2016

March 30 —“Luxury high-rises are being built in our neighborhoods; rents and property taxes keep going up and up; and…

Capitalism = homelessness

April 8, 2016

Nearly 24,000 children sleep every night in New York City municipal shelters, according to the Coalition for the Homeless. But…