Widespread poverty means working children are common. "Half of all interviewees do not have access to safe drinking water and more than a quarter use a water source that is shared with animals,"

The Mexican penal system is hard pressed on all sides, from overcrowding and corruption on the inside, to critical international scrutiny on the outside.

The earth is shaking as immigrants rise up around the country with their voices singing "Sí se puede"--Yes, we can. This uprising is in the best tradition of the American Dream and the civil rights struggle for freedom.

MAY 1st – International Workers' Day – commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognised in most countries. The United States of America and Canada are among the exceptions.

Currently extant data, in aggregate, strongly suggest that total excess mortality in Darfur, over the course of more than three years of deadly conflict, now significantly exceeds 450,000.

All previous societies in human history have had an exploitative relationship to nature. Examples abound where societies ruined the immediate environment they depended on, leading to their own doom. However, never before has all life been threatened with extinction.

The introduction of Sen. John Kerry’s Senate Joint Resolution 33 is the latest illustration of the power of the peace movement. It marks a significant advance in the movement to end the occupation despite its many flaws and assumptions.

The idea for the ALBA agreement —a model of regional political and economical integration based on solidarity— was first endorsed by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez in December 2004.

To counter the attack on the education of our nation’s children, the AFL-CIO, AFT, NEA and other unions and student groups are lining up in a “Reverse the Raid on Student Aid” campaign to make a college education more affordable for working family students.

“When you work hard year after year, when you support your family and pay your taxes, when you make your community a better place, then you deserve your rights,” says AFL-CIO's Linda Chavez-Thompson.

“It isn’t only the Islamists who are targeted in the state’s attempts to undermine the opposition, but any group – or individual – campaigning against the state of emergency or for the independence of the judiciary,”