Six undocumented youth appeared in Chicago's Circuit Court yesterday to face charges of mob action and obstruction of traffic. The charges were filed by the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has created a firestorm by introducing new city ordinances that activists and legal observers say will have a chilling effect on First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is battling to get multinational conglomerate EGT Development to honor the union's West Coast contract and use ILWU labor at a new $200 million grain terminal.
“The tide of war is receding,” President Barack Obama declared, not once, but twice on Thursday in his brief remarks at the Pentagon introducing a new defense guidance strategy that formally announces an aggressive US buildup toward military confrontation with Ch …
During a town hall in Keene, New Hampshire this morning, Rick Santorum told a mother whose son survived cancer that people with pre-existing conditions should pay more for health care coverage because they make poor health care choices.
After verbally assaulting the EPA and insulting workers' intelligence, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum has set his sights on a new target: struggling African-Americans. In what he claims to have been a tongue-tied moment, Santorum aimed a verbal low blow at Black peop …
O good. He was a friggin' pain in the ass. I wonder which door in Hell he chose.
In case anyone was wondering, Bank of America has confirmed that the "Occupy Our Homes" movement is having an impact on the foreclosure industry. The bank, of course, didn't mean to do this publicly. Instead, they meant to discuss the occupations privately through an inter …
These past several months have witnessed something very different in the U.S. People from many different walks of life came together to occupy public space in nearly 1,000 cities in the U.S.
Another variation on the demand to “tax the rich” is the call for a tax on financial transactions, otherwise known as a “Financial Transactions Tax” (FTT), “Tobin Tax” (after the Nobel economics laureate, James Tobin, who first proposed th …
The War has not initiated any private discussions.