U.S. and Canada

Penn students protest privatization

Philadelphia — Just the threat of students protesting was enough to send the Boston Consulting Group running. BCG, a major cheerleader…

March 28, 2013

Profiteering, racism behind closing of 61 Chicago schools

Chicago — The Rahm Emanuel administration and the Chicago Public Schools, along with politically connected corporate interests, are making a calculated…

March 27, 2013

Tribute honors life & legacy of Leo Robinson

San Francisco — Under the dome of the William B. Chester Hiring Hall of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10…

March 27, 2013

National day of action April 11 to keep U.S. out of Venezuela

The Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle has called for a National Day of Action on Thursday, April 11, against U.S. intervention…

March 26, 2013

Fracking records unsealed in Pennsylvania

Philadelphia  — Since 2005, a provision of the federal Energy Policy Act popularly labeled the “Halliburton Loophole,” allowed the giant corporations…

March 26, 2013

Bookstore talk April 12 on capitalism’s dead end

Fred Goldstein, author of “Capitalism at a Dead End: Job Destruction, Overproduction and Economic Crisis in the High-Tech Era,” will…

March 26, 2013

Racism, exploitation & profits: The REAL ‘March Madness’

This year marks the 75th anniversary of March Madness in the U.S. On the surface, this term refers to three…

March 25, 2013

Rallies coast to coast protest sequester

The American Federation of Government Employees called a national day of protest March 20 targeting the federal government-imposed sequester, which…

March 25, 2013

Latina activists present play on ‘audacious’ Harriet Tubman

Bronx, N.Y. — For the second week in a row, a local stage production in commemoration of the centennial death of…

March 25, 2013

Issues behind postal workers’ struggle

The battle over six-day delivery and to save the U.S. Postal Service from being privatized reflects both the depth of…

March 25, 2013