By Max Rameau May 01, 2009 The recent economic volatility, marked by a housing boom spurred by massive gentrification and the current cycle of capital divestment resulting in mass foreclosures, has been a major challenge for a social justice movement caught off guard and flat footed. After high rates of housing construction during the boom years, the [...]

By Don Fitz June 13, 2009 With millions of jobs lost during the first part of 2009, who is calling for a shorter work week to spread the work around?  Not the Republicans.  Not even the Democrats.  But why is there nary a peep from unions?

Quieren tenernos bajo control, vigilados y oprimidos para que no presentemos ningun acto de desafio o resistencia

Nota del editor: Sin sustento, no hay libertad, no hay vida, no hay forma de resistir las injusticias diarias que vienen a oprimirlo a uno cada vez más. No hay libertad. El hambre es una de las injusticias más grandes de nuestros tiempos porque el alimento es un derecho humano que se le esta negando [...]

Massive Columbus foreclosure case shows how some landlords take advantage of a $56 billion no-fault fund, leaving taxpayers on the hook for millions and tenants living in squalor By Geoff Dutton June 7, 2009 A group of well-connected local landlords received $26.6 million in federally backed mortgages to buy six apartment complexes for $13.4 million. They were supposed to [...]

Marie Trigona 1 de junio de 2009 En respuesta a la desinformación y al nulo acceso a los medios de comunicación masiva, grupos de ciudadanos han creado redes de comunicación alternativos con un rol fundamental para la Latinoamérica actual. Conjuntamente estaciones de televisión comunitaria están transformando el paisaje americano. Ésta redefinición del espacio para medios independientes tiene [...]

por CERIGUA 15 de junio de 2009 Guatemala, 15 Jun (Cerigua).- Varias organizaciones indígenas manifestaron su postura ante el “fracaso” del modelo de Estado guatemalteco, que mantiene a una gran parte de la población sumida en la violencia, pobreza e ingobernabilidad y a un paso de caer en una convulsión social, lo que consideran requiere de una [...]

Nota del editor: Sin sustento, no hay libertad, no hay vida, no hay forma de resistir las injusticias diarias que vienen a oprimirlo a uno cada vez más. No hay libertad. El hambre es una de las injusticias más grandes de nuestros tiempos porque el alimento es un derecho humano que se le esta negando [...]

by Bill Fletcher, Jr., It is one thing to notice that a house under construction has been abandoned by the contractor who was to be building it.  That happened in my neighborhood (and actually many other neighborhoods) more than a year ago, making it very clear that something was going wrong in the economy.  It is [...]

by Edward S. Herman June 2009 In a system where corporations are central in economic activity, economic crises have always and necessarily produced plans and programs of renovation and improvement designed to make corporations more responsive to the public interest. Of course, there have always been some who urged nationalization or worker control; i.e., the replacement of [...]