(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Social Justice Quiz 2008 - Twenty Questions Test your knowledge of social justice in this series of 20 questions

(12 comments) SHARE        Thursday, November 13, 2008
McCain Owes America an Apology John McCain fanned the fires of fear for months and guess what, millions are scared to death. He knew what he was doing was wrong. As did John Lewis. He owes America an apology and John Lewis deserves one as well.

(4 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 7, 2010
The United States of Fear - Ten Examples Since September 11, 2001, fear has been the main engine of change in the United States. Who would have thought that across the US, where people boast that it is the home of the free and the land of the brave, people would gladly surrender their freedom and liberty because they so fear terrorism?

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Fourteen Examples of Systemic Racism in the U.S. Criminal Justice System The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 24, 2008
Katrina Pain Index - Three Years Later Three years after Katrina, New Orleans remains deeply pained. Housing, crime, healthcare, public education - all are in trouble.

(11 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Bush Insider Reveals Guantanamo Deception: Hundreds of Innocents Jailed Bush insider reveals that the President, the VP, Rumsfeld and others knew early on that hundreds of people detained at Guantanamo were not terrorists but innocents.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, June 10, 2010
Mississippi Starts Sixth Murder Trial for African American In a small town in Mississippi, they are prosecuting an African American man for murder for the sixth time.

(8 comments) SHARE        Thursday, July 1, 2010
BP and Bhopal - USA Double Standard When a US corporation was responsible for killing and disabling hundreds of thousands in Bhopal India, the US was not very aggressive in holding it accountable. Why a different approach when US citizens are involved?

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 12, 2009
Why ACORN Won ACORN won a federal challenge against Congress defunding the organization. This is why.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 17, 2010
Too Little Too Late for Haiti? Six Sobering Points Wake up world! Haiti is in much deeper trouble than mainstream media is showing.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 2, 2010
Fire on the Bayou: Non-Stop River of Oil Heads to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida "This isn't a spill. This isn't a storage tank or a ship with a finite amount of oil that has boundaries. This is much, much worse," said Kerry St. Pe, the former head of the Louisiana oil spill response team. The Gulf spill is really a river of oil flowing out of the bottom of the Gulf according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 24, 2010
Obama's Liberty Problem: Why Indefinite Detention by Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People Guantanamo is coming up on its 9th anniversary. The proposal floated by Obama administration will only make things worse.

(14 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Corporations Profit from Permanent War: Memorial Day 2010 Remember this Memorial Day that, while thousands have been laid in their graves and hundreds of thousands wounded, private military contractors are prospering and profiting as the business of war booms.

SHARE        Monday, April 21, 2008
US Role in Haiti Hunger Riots Hunger riots in Haiti have killed several people recently. Haiti used to be able to feed itself, until the US and the IMF forced them to change their laws. The US and IMF changes helped destroy Haiti rice farmers. Now Haiti imports heavily subsidized US rice - which has soared in price and is now scarce. How it happened and what can be done - answers in this article.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 28, 2010
One Year Later: Honduras Resistance Strong Despite US-Supported Coup The pro-democracy resistance in Honduras is strong one year after US supported a coup. Solidarity by US activists is needed.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 7, 2010
Katrina Pain Index 2010 New Orleans Five Years Later the challenges facing New Orleans after Katrina are the same ones facing millions of people of color, women, the elderly and disabled and their children across the US. Katrina just made these challenges clearer in New Orleans than in many other places. Here is where we are five years later.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Another False Ending: Contracting Out the Iraq Occupation In Iraq, while thousands of US troops are marching out, thousands of additional private military contractors (PMCs) are marching in. The number of armed security contractors in Iraq will more than double in the coming months.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 30, 2010
Not Just Arizona: Immigration Enforcement Out of Control on Federal Level While people protest the terrible Arizona state law that uses local law enforcement to target immigrants, the federal government is expanding its efforts to use local law enforcement in immigration enforcement and has launched a major PR campaign to defend it.

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Challenging Vatican Old Boys Network It started when the Rome police spotted the three women in long white church liturgical garments robes, the man in a roman collar dressed all in black, and their supporters walking several blocks down the middle of Via della Conciliazione directly towards the Vatican, the headquarters of the institutional Roman Catholic Church and the Basilica of St. Peter.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Eight Homeless Youth Die in New Orleans Fire -" What Does It Say About US? Eight homeless youth died in a fire in an abandoned warehouse in New Orleans overnight.

SHARE        Sunday, September 27, 2009
G20 Shows How USA Terrorizes Ourselves The G20 in Pittsburgh showed us how pitifully fearful our leaders have become. What no terrorist could do to us, our own leaders did. Out of fear of the possibility of a terrorist attack, authorities militarize our towns, scare our people away, stop daily life and quash our constitutional rights.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 22, 2010
Honduras: Crisis and Progress Honduras resistance lives, fights for human rights and celebrates despite deaths, beatings and arrests.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, September 7, 2008
Displaced Poor Arrive in New Orleans as Saints Go Marching In As buses continue to arrive in New Orleans bringing the displaced poor back home after 7 days away, the New Orleans Saints kick off their season, just blocks away.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 6, 2008
Gustav Impact on Louisiana and Haiti Gustav hit Louisiana, the poorest state in the US, and Haiti, the poorest country in the hemisphere. What is similar and what is different?

SHARE        Friday, September 26, 2008
Shame: US War on Unarmed Working Mothers Does the U.S. feel so vulnerable that we really need to declare war on unarmed working mothers and conduct paramilitary raids on bakeries, candle shops, and meatpacking plants in order to feel safe? Shame on us.

SHARE        Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Swedish Peace Activists Break Into Weapons Factories Using bolt cutters and hammers, five Swedish peace activists repeatedly broke into weapons factories in the last few days - damaging numerous grenade launchers and other military items.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 3, 2010
Not Just Guantanamo: US Torturing Muslim Pre-Trial Detainee in NYC Today in New York City, the U.S. is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial. For the last almost three years, Syed Fahad Hashmi has been kept in total pre-trial isolation inside in a small cell under 24 hour video and audio surveillance. He is forced to use the bathroom and shower in full view of the video. He has not seen the sun in years.

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, July 16, 2010
Dissent Victory for Animal Rights Activists Attacks by government on our human and civil rights are always first directed at people on the margins who do not have widespread popular support. Animal and environmental activists are the ones under attack today. Unless we stand up and vigorously protect their rights to dissent, others, including us, will be certainly be next.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 14, 2011
Million Plus Remain Homeless and Displaced in Haiti: One Year After Quake One year after the tragic earthquake, more than a million people remain homeless in Haiti; almost half of them are children.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, June 19, 2008
War Resistance Arrests Rise Over 15,000 arrests have occurred in war resistance actions since 2002, many more and in many more places than traditional media report.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Revolutionary Haitian Priest, Jean-Juste, Presente! Pere Jean-Juste was a Jesus-like revolutionary. In jail and out, he preached liberation of the poor, release of prisoners, human rights for all, and a fair distribution of wealth. A big muscular man with a booming voice and a frequent deep laugh, he wore a brightly colored plastic rosary around his neck and carried another in his pocket. Jailed for nearly a year in Haiti...

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, January 10, 2011
Guns and Terrorism: Two Unasked Question in Tucson Mass Murder What about guns? Why no terrorism discussion?

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 13, 2010
Taking Back Homes from the Banks: Exercising the Human Right to Housing There are lots of people without homes. And there are lots of vacant homes owned by banks. Put them together for the human right to housing.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 30, 2008
Waiting for the Bus in New Orleans As Gustave approaches the City of New Orleans is leaving.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Assassinationn of US Muslim Cleric Illegal Immoral and Unwise Assassinating Awlaki in the US would be murder, a capital crime, punishable by life in prison or even the death penalty. Morally, few would argue that agents of the FBI or the CIA could murder the cleric in the US. If it is illegal and immoral to kill a Muslim cleric in the US why would it be legal, moral or wise to do so in Yemen?

SHARE        Thursday, January 14, 2010
Ten Things US Should Do for Haiti There are 10 things the US can do for Haiti right away. Here they are.

SHARE        Sunday, May 25, 2008
War Immemorial Day U.S. is biggest war machine in world. Most powerful. Most expensive. US spends more on war than all nations in the rest of the world put together. US also has most aggressive military - intervening worldwide. If Memorial Day is really about peace - US has a lot of praying (and changing) to do.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Living in the Car After Gustave Gustave passed, but for working and poor people, the financial crisis remains