Come on, America! Your grandmas/abuelinas and grandpas/abuelos are counting on you!

One of the few surviving leftovers from the 60s era "War on Poverty", the Job Corps is often touted as one of the more sucessful federal programs for "disadvantaged" youth. In this interview, from the upcoming CLAUSTROPHOBIA, one local Job Corps participant gives a different view from the inside . . .

If you own a home, have just re-financed or are
shopping for a mortgage, you'll be outraged.

It's been done before, and it's happening now.

Our weekly review of the news of the week

Today, if Rich Lowry stood in Coalition-devastated Iraq, at the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, he would be at a source that once “watered Sumeria and Akkad, and nourished the Hanging Gardens of Babylon” (Will Durant’s “Story of Civilization”). The peoples of this ancient land, once known as Mesopotamia, (part of which is holy also to Christianity), prepared the first codes of law, under the magnificent Hammurabi.

An alternative still open as the police/war state moves into predictable gear is that we can still use this (the Net) and other tools to get out the word of Resistance Consciousness.

A catalog of jaw-dropping quotes, calamatous situations all accompanied by some wilfully unrepentant commentary.

A report on some events November 21 in Miami--a free open-air bazaar in downtown organized by activists, the police attack on people engaged in a peaceful solidarity rally at Miami-Dade County Jail, concern over a possible police raid at the Convergence Center, and a press conference. (Photos by Laura Goren)

Nine, an activist from the NorthEast Federation of Anarcho-Communists, traveled to Miami to protest the FTAA. He left with a pronounced limp, injured by the rubber bullets fired by the police, an injury that was exacerbated his running over 30 blocks away from the police before he could find a safe space to receive medical treatment.