Presidential Proclamation — Loyalty Day, 2012 LOYALTY DAY, 2012 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION More than two centuries ago, our Founders laid out a charter that assured the rule of law and the rights… Read More ›
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Why Conservatives Are Smearing Trayvon Martin’s Reputation
by Michelle Goldberg Conservatives are focusing on Trayvon’s tweets, appearance, school suspension over marijuana traces, and the hoodie he was wearing to blame him for his own death—and to show that his killing had nothing to do with racism. Plus… Read More ›
Pentagon Sought to Stop Paper From Using Photos
The grisly photographs of American soldiers posing with the body parts of Afghan insurgents during a 2010 deployment in Afghanistan were the source of a dispute between The Los Angeles Times and the Pentagon lasting weeks. Two of the 18… Read More ›
Photos of U.S. soldiers posing with Afghan corpses prompt condemnation
After the Los Angeles Times publishes two pictures, American officials denounce the actions of troops photographed with dead insurgents and their body parts. By David Zucchino and Laura King From the White House to the American Embassy in Kabul, American… Read More ›
Celebrate International Workers’ Day 2012!
Today we celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, a holiday celebrated by working people worldwide. This day began in commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, where police fired upon workers striking for an eight-hour-day. Since… Read More ›
Africans shocked by uncivilized antics of European savages
DAKAR. Africans say they have little hope that Europe will ever become civilized, after a week in which Spain’s King Carlos went on an elephant-killing spree and the Swedish Culture Minister was entertained by a racially offensive cake. “You can… Read More ›
Venezuela’s Minimum Wage to Rise 32.25% in 2012
By Ewan Robertson Mérida, 9th April 2012 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela’s national minimum wage is to increase 32.25% in 2012, announced Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday. In a televised address from Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Chavez explained that the… Read More ›
Are Guns the Problem?
Intro: Tragedy, Violence and Bourgeois Discourse Your average American is no stranger to murder. Periodically, we hear of another senseless crime, another mass murder, another tragedy taking innocent life. Like clockwork, whenever a high-profile shooting takes place in America, two… Read More ›
Join the APL for May Day 2012 in Chicago!
Join Occupy, union, immigrants rights, community and other activists to organize a March and Rally on May Day 2012 in Chicago. Get involved in a committee: Media, Outreach, Logistics, Education, Program, Fundraising….. … For more information visit: May Day Facebook… Read More ›
The Violence of Poverty
by ALYOSHA GOLDSTEIN On April 22, 1968, the National Welfare Rights Organization held a vigil on Capitol Hill in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been murdered eighteen days earlier. This was to have been the day that… Read More ›
Why I refused to return to fight in Afghanistan’s brutal occupation
The Taliban clearly has broad support from Afghan people. Conscientious objection is a right and obligation in a failed war Recent attacks in Kabul confirm the occupation is falling to pieces. Claims about “decisive years” and “turned corners” are little… Read More ›
Hundreds march in Phoenix against Arizona immigration law
(Reuters) – A few hundred protesters, some toting placards reading “no to racial profiling,” marched through downtown Phoenix on Wednesday to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to block Arizona’s two-year-old crackdown on illegal immigrants. “My message to the Supreme Court… Read More ›
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