Nobody opines sagely anymore that the races will never get along, calmly ladling conventional certainties over the earnest idealism of civil-rights activists. But we live in a world so permeated with militarized fear of demagogic leaders...
16 November 2008
I think the peace movement and every justice movement in the United States should simply overwhelm Congress members during the next two months with one and only one demand: Pass the Employee Free Choice Act in January. This is, of course,...
13 November 2008
At the Charlottesville City Council's October 6th meeting, a group of
citizens organized by the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice,
urged the Council to take up at its November meeting a resolution
opposing a U.S. attack on...
13 November 2008
I hope it’s time, if nothing else, to retire cynical bumper stickers, such as: If elections could change anything, they’d be illegal.
The air remains thick with a sense of history and change, if not mandate. People are still...
The air remains thick with a sense of history and change, if not mandate. People are still...
09 November 2008
Labor Reborn: A Department of Labor Worthy of the Name
According to news reports, president elect Obama is considering for Labor Secretary three people who actually know something about labor and actually support the intended...
According to news reports, president elect Obama is considering for Labor Secretary three people who actually know something about labor and actually support the intended...
09 November 2008
As of about 9 p.m. ET on Thursday, 316,476 votes had been counted in Virginia's Fifth District congressional race between incumbent bigotted xenophobe Virgil Goode and challenger Tom Perriello, with 158,562 going to Perriello and 157,914...
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