Day laborers in the United Workers Association organize for a living wage at Camden Yards. With Opening Day now one week away, workers are organizing to continue their history-making campaign. Last week, a break came when a dialogue re-opened with the Baltimore Orioles' owner, Peter Angelos. Angelos has made a committment to the United Workers Association that he and the Orioles would ensure that workers would be paid the city living wage of $8.85 an hour beginning this season.

Ralph Nader told the nation to support Rep. Conyers who is considering moving forward on impeachment hearings. Only people of his state can contact his DC office, emails are filtered.

Goldwater's stand on Social Security became a turning point in my life

This national conference (March 31st through April 3rd in New York City) will be the first of its kind. It intends to: empower the grassroots; promote discussion and skill sharing; be affordable, accessible, and inclusive; challenge oppression WITHIN the animal rights movement; have an open and participatory structure; develop a broader analysis of the social and economic context of animal oppression; promote abolition, not reform; and support cross-movement alliances.

If Randall Terry is going to grandstand on the Terry Schiavo issue without being a hypocrite, he needs to sign this document or something roughly equivalent.

If my mother had felt the need to abort me when I was growing in her
womb, I would have been grateful to give her that wish.

"The confusing debate over climate change has given way to a new scientific consensus: The Earth is getting warmer."

A rare internet blog.

It’s fair to assume that George W. Bush and Israel’s Ariel Sharon, will be up to no good when they meet at Crawford, Texas, on April 11th. Sharon, and his Neocon cronies, helped to push Bush into the Iraqi conflict. Israel now wants the U.S. to put Iran and Syria in its crosshairs. Both men have something in common that they don’t want the public to ever see: the blood of the innocents! Bush may be suffering, too, from a Napoleon Complex!