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

Let all U.S. residents return from Haiti regardless of citizenship! Treatment or evacuation for all needing critical medical attention! Sign the Petition at http://iacenter.org/haiti/jennyreturn Send a message to President Obama, former Presidents Clinton and Bush, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, Congressional leaders,the Congressional Black Caucus, the... » read this article

For the past several months, Students Against Israeli Apartheid – Carleton (SAIA), a student group at Carleton University in Ottawa that is committed to supporting the Palestinian struggle for freedom, has been conducting research on Carleton’s investments in Israeli apartheid. The Carleton Pension Fund currently lacks any ethical guidelines, with... » read this article

Thomas Cleaver writes: I met many memorable individuals who stopped by the Oleo Strut coffeehouse in Killeen to see for themselves what was going on with the GI antiwar movement. One such was Professor Howard Zinn, the author of A People's History of the United States, who stopped by one... » read this article

The President on Wednesday may have reassured Americans that the state of the Union is "strong," but, just the week before, a group of Vermont secessionists declared their intention to seek political power in a quest to get their state to quit the Union altogether. On Jan. 15, in the... » read this article

Anchorage, AK -- Conservation and Alaska Native groups called for a timeout on oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea yesterday, filing a legal challenge against Shell Oil's permit to drill in the region next summer. The U.S. Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) approved drilling in... » read this article

Washington, DC: In a dramatic protest, 42 activists with Witness Against Torture were arrested this afternoon at the U.S. Capitol. Most of the arrestees had been fasting since January 11th. The protest, which comes on the eve of the since-voided deadline President Obama had set for closing the prison camp... » read this article

Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and Street Sweeper Social Club, alongside musician Serj Tankian, of alternative metal band System of a Down, joined representitives of Korean guitar workers in a protest against Cort Guitars on Jan. 13, at the Nanum Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Calif. The... » read this article

Bulletin:  U.S. Supreme Court ruling today could bring back the death penalty for Mumia Abu-Jamal, Activist, Intellectual and Political Prisoner NO DEATH PENALTY FOR MUMIA! ALL OUT FOR 1/20 EMERGENCY DEMO! TOMORROW, WED, Jan. 20, 4 PM-7 PM, HARLEM STATE OFFICE BLDG, 125TH & 7TH "All you pen devils knew... » read this article

STUDENT JOURNALISTS in Northwestern University's Medill Innocence Project are undoubtedly familiar with the machinations of the criminal justice system: sleazy prosecutors, character assassinations, unfounded charges. Over the past two decades, their work re-investigating criminal cases has helped exonerate 11 men wrongfully convicted of murder, including five who had been death... » read this article

January 6, 2010: Tomorrow, January 7 at 6 P.M., the State of Texas will kill Kenneth Mosley unless the state hears the call of human rights, death-penalty abolition and religious groups and grants him clemency. Read the articles below to see how you can help. - Britta Slopianka and Les... » read this article

Happy Holidays from TecsChange! At TecsChange we never know what our next opportunity will be.  This year took another unexpected turn.  Previously we have gotten a few scattered laptop donations.  They were never the same so we couldn’t use any of our mass production tricks to clean of and restore... » read this article

December 31, 2009 Update Today we begin the first international campaign to boycott flying. Many of us have been grumbling for awhile about the increasingly humiliating experience of going to an airport but now we are saying, "Enough is enough!" Our Open Letter To the TSA and the Aviation Industry... » read this article

Forty-nine years ago this past Thanksgiving CBS aired Edward R Murrow’s exposé on the exploitation of migrant farm works in the US. Today many of the same conditions that existed in the agricultural fields of 1960 are still in place. And the Publix supermarket chain in the South East has... » read this article

Nationwide – Military Families Speak Out, an organization of over 4,000 military families opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, issued the following statement regarding last night’s speech by President Obama regarding Afghanistan. President Obama’s decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan by deploying another 30,000 troops has sent... » read this article

26 November 2009 Repeated attempts by Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah leadership to restore their flagging authority amongst the Palestinian masses have only underscored the abject failure of Fatah’s perspective of securing a Palestinian state through an agreement with Israel and its sponsor, the United States. Abbas, whose presidential term... » read this article

WHEN NEWS of the coup in Honduras broke in August, Johannes Wilms was in Europe. The anthropology student who had spent the last year and a half studying in Nicaragua immediately returned to Central America to document what was happening on the ground in Honduras. The result is a 90-minute... » read this article

The Regents of the University of California voted, at UCLA, on 32% fee increases for students from November 17 – 19. (The CSU trustees are also meeting on these dates). Students through out the state of California are in an uproar. UC Santa Cruz: over 500 students are occupying the... » read this article

The military coup by SOA graduates in Honduras has once again exposed the destabilizing and deadly effects that the School of the Americas has on Latin America. The actions of the school’s graduates are unmasking the Pentagon rhetoric and reveal the anti-democratic results of U.S. policies. It is time for... » read this article

Decrying Barack Obama as "white power in black face," hundreds of African-Americans marched on the White House Saturday to protest policies of the first black US president, and demand that he bring US troops home. More than 200 people gathered for the first public demonstration by African Americans against the... » read this article