http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/25 Activism Is Not a Crime: Why I Will Not Testify Before This Federal Grand Jury by Maureen Murphy I have been summoned to appear before a federal grand jury in Chicago on January 25. But I will not testify, even at the risk...
U.S. Solidarity Economy
Please distribute as widely as possible! Thanks. The U.S. Solidarity Economy Network invites you to the first national Forum on the Solidarity Economy: Building Another World March 19-22, 2009 * Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst Co-convened...
Citizen Councils in Libya
The good news: Democracy Now, Feb. 28, 2011 Libyans Organize Citizen Councils to Run Cities Cities Liberated from Pro-Gaddafi Loyalists http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/28/libyans_organize_citizen_councils_to_run In the liberated city of Benghazi, where...
Save the Date! WESPAC Awards Dinner!
Join WESPAC Foundation at our 29th Annual Awards Dinner
The Left Forum
April 17-19, 2009 Each spring in New York City, Left Forum gathers intellectuals and activists from around the world to address the burning issues of our times. The theme for 2009 is TURNING POINTS. Even before the financial meltdown and its spreading destruction to...
Libya’s Significance
Another perspective by Mouin Rabbani: Libya's Significance 1 Feb 25 2011 by Mouin Rabbani [Qaddafi. Image from FoxNews] With the 42-year reign of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi coming to a seemingly inevitable end, it is worth reflecting on the significance...
Arizona is America
NOTE: This blog is also posted on The Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-powell/arizona-is-america_b_806449.html Arizona is America By Kevin Powell I say this because Arizona is not the problem. We the people are the problem....
Dec. 13 People’s Bailout Action
DEC. 13 PEOPLE'S BAILOUT ACTION IN WHITE PLAINS PART OF NATIONAL CAMPAIGN Please come Saturday, Dec. 13 at noon to the fountain at Main Street and Mamaroneck Avenue in White Plains to be part of the People's Bailout March and Rally where we will call on Congress to...
The Arab Revolts
by Mouin Rabbani [Arab dictators. Image by Saeb Khalil] The extraordinary developments in Tunisia and Egypt during the first six weeks of this year, and more recently in Bahrain, Libya, Yemen and elsewhere, have inaugurated a revolutionary moment in the Arab...
The Left has nowhere to go
‘The Left Has Nowhere to Go’ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_left_has_nowhere_to_go_20110102/ Posted on Jan 3, 2011 By Chris Hedges Ralph Nader in a CNN poll a few days before the 2008 presidential election had an estimated 3 percent of the...