If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; Every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains. Every wheel in the creation, every mine and every mill; Fleets and armies of the nation, will at their command stand still. –Joe Hill On November 17, I marched...
St. Mark’s Bookshop Saved! The beginning of November witnessed a major victory for independent, small businesses in New York City. St. Mark’s Bookshop, a Lower East Side institution for over thirty years, was threatened with eviction by its landlord, Cooper Union, as it struggled to...
On Friday November 18 several dozen police officers in full riot gear were called by UC Davis Chancellor or “Chief Executive Officer” Linda Katehi to disperse a crowd of occupying students at her campus. These students were all that was left of a small occupation of the campus quad...
“Underlying recent attacks on the university is an attempt not merely to counter dissent but to destroy it and, in doing so, to eliminate all of those remaining public spaces , spheres, and institutions that nourish and sustain a democratic civil society” —Henry Giroux The...
“The owners of this country know the truth: it’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” —George Carlin The nation is in crisis! The economy is stuck in neutral! Unemployment still hovers close to 10 percent! And states across the country are facing...
