People from all over the country are organizing to converge on Washington, D.C., to demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan and Iraq. On Saturday, March 20, 2010, there will be a massive National March & Rally in D.C. A day of action and outreach in... » read this article

Billion dollar refineries are closed in one part of the world, while others open elsewhere. This is the craziness of the global capitalist economy. It wastes huge amounts of material and human resources, whereas these same resources could be used in a global plan to develop the economy in way... » read this article

Today, FDL launches its Students Not Banks campaign, with a petition calling on Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and members of Congress to pass student loan reform quickly through reconciliation. One of President Obama’s most ambitious plans for both education and the budget was the transition from a system of government... » read this article

THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD: Rekindling the Radical Imagination The ongoing capitalist crisis generated high hopes that the parties and social movements of the Left, both in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world, would be re-energized. So far this has not happened. The Left remains fractured and confused, drifting away... » read this article

When it comes to local food, supply and demand aren’t always in sync. Many Bay Area shoppers still lack convenient access to affordable local food while many farmers struggle to expand their markets, even as awareness of the value of their products continues to grow. And while traditional farmers markets... » read this article

The student activism yesterday in the "Day of Action" serves as one powerful example of what Civic Revolution is about. Yesterday, March 4, students, teachers, faculty, campus workers and community members are made their voices heard--in California and around the country. They're taking a stand against the ongoing attack on... » read this article

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Editor's Note: The time has long since passed for workers to break from their union bosses who have served the corporate structure and sold out their members for the last century, no matter the cost. "The unions’ present role is the culmination of a long history. Already 100 years ago... » read this article

Tissa Hami knows something about being hijacked. Her budding career fell victim to cratering public opinion toward people of Middle Eastern descent in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks. Hami is essentially American, having lived in the United States most of her life. But she was born in Iran... » read this article

Ur Union of Unemployed, nicknamed UCubed (U3), is an opening salvo in the civic revolution that is brewing in the USA. UCubed is a community service project of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) and its partners intended to unify the unemployed in a unique and useful way.... » read this article

In March 2005, a group of activists from the Arab Student Collective at the University of Toronto launched the first Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). The aim of the week was two-fold. On one hand, it sought to break the wall of silence and misrepresentation around what was happening in the... » read this article

Statement by the Working Peoples Association (Indonesia), Socialist AllianceSocialist Worker (New Zealand), Partido Lakas ng MasaSolidarity (Australia), Labour Party Pakistan and Socialist Alternative (Australia) (Australia), (Philippines), [If your organisation would like to add their names to the statement, please email international@prp-indonesia.org.] February 23, 2010 -- We, progressive, anti-war, anti-neoliberalism and... » read this article

NATIONWIDE - February 19 - Miami-Dade County yesterday overwhelmingly passed the first county-wide ordinance in the country to combat wage theft, making it easier for workers to bring legal action against employers who fail to pay or underpay them. "This is momentous," said Jeanette Smith, Executive Director of South Florida... » read this article

This is the second installment of Axis of Logic's new mission, calling for a Civic Revolution in the United States, led by Richard D. Vogel. The direction is clear. The time is now. February 23, 2010, Axis of Logic - Most educated Americans know Henry David Thoreau through Walden, the... » read this article

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau (originally published as, "Resistance to Civil Government") PART ONE I HEARTILY ACCEPT the motto, — "That government is best which governs least";1 and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which... » read this article

Enough is enough! It’s time we up the ante and demand that our voices be heard and heeded. It’s time that the logical and rational voices of reason get a Peace of the Action. While the wars in Central Asia and the Middle East rage hotter and hotter, and while... » read this article

As Newton resident Lisa Dodson, a Boston College sociology professor in the thick of a research project, was interviewing a grocery story manager in the Midwest about the difficulties of the low-income workers he supervised, he asked her a curious question: "Don't you want to know what this does to... » read this article

Man Says Actions Intended To Send Message To Banks Moscow, Ohio- Like many people, Terry Hoskins has had troubles with his bank. But his solution to foreclosure might be unique. Hoskins said he's been in a struggle with RiverHills Bank over his Clermont County home for nearly a decade, a... » read this article

On 23 December 2009 the UN Security Council took an illegal and unjust resolution (1907/2009) imposing sanctions on Eritrea. The sanctions adopted include an arms embargo, travel bans and asset freezes for both officials and individuals. This resolution was adopted on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations and has therefore no... » read this article

This video was created by Mario de La Vega to promote the Edible Schoolyard book, which chronicles the integration of academics with growing, cooking, and sharing wholesome, delicious food over the last 13 years. With inspiring images of the garden and kitchen—and their young caretakers—Edible Schoolyard is at once a... » read this article