The election of Barack Obama and a larger Democratic majority in Congress will stand as one of the most important turning points in the history of the US.

Greening your school is a great idea. It will not only benefit the environment but the student body as well. According to the “Greening America’s Schools” report, green buildings provide a better study and learning environment for students.

About 40 activists representing numerous local, state, and national organizations gathered Thursday, December 18, 2008, at Grady Memorial Hospital to express opposition to a proposal they said could leave thousands of uninsured citizens without a safety net.

A majority of Canadians oppose the Harper Conservatives. A majority support progressive change without another costly election! The Coalition Policy Accord signed by 162 MP’s can be the basis for that change.

Management has been harassing pro-union employees, Los Angeles area FedEx workers told a blue ribbon commission panel this week. The workers testified about their desire to join the Teamsters Union in order to boost their standard of living and protect health and other benefits.

An outside commission with subpoena power should be empowered to examine the role of the CIA in authorizing and using torture on detainees held by the US government after 9/11, stated Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show Dec. 17.

Last Tuesday, December 16 (2008), the Bernanke Fed took the most unusual step of lowering the overnight inter-bank lending rate, the federal funds rate, to a level never reached before, i.e. zero percent with an upside limit of 0.25 percent.

Two Bush administration intelligence analysts who wrote reports on the C.I.A.'s interrogation of a "high value" al-Qaeda detainee were never told he had been subject to waterboarding and other coercive methods, Vanity Fair contributing editor David Rose reports.

For us the fight to defend the United Auto Workers union (UAW) and its members is immediate. It is estimated that over three million jobs are linked to the jobs at GM, Ford and Chrysler. Bankruptcy would have devastating effects on communities where these workers live.

The collapse of the congressional short-term bailout of the imperiled US auto industry brings us to a crossroads. The immediate cause was right-wing Republican demands to kill the UAW as the price tag for its support.

President-elect Barack Obama chose Chicago schools superintendent Arne Duncan as his nominee for Education secretary after an almost entirely one-sided media discussion that portrayed the most progressive candidate in the running for the post as an unacceptable pick.

Emphasizing the important role of science and the link between economic recovery and sustainable environmental policies, President-elect Barack Obama named leading members of his new environmental team Dec. 15.

When the day finally comes that Raul Flores loses his job, he will face a bitter search for another one. "I've got a family to support, so I've got to do whatever it takes," he says.

Odetta had hoped to sing at the January 20 inauguration of Barack Obama. After decades of performing and fighting for civil rights, human rights and the right to speak her mind, this beautiful sister to us all recognized that the struggle itself could now be put into a new light.

ATLANTA - A three judge panel of the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday met to decide if they will allow Georgia death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis to file a new round of federal appeals.

Okay, trombone really has nothing to do with this. However, I just might find a way to work it in, so bear with me. I have a worrying concern about Barack Obama.

Calling the decision a "parting gift for the gun lobby," the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence last week slammed a new, last minute regulation that allows visitors to national parks and wildlife refuges to carry loaded and concealed weapons.

Paul Krugman has launched a determined ideological campaign for the return of the ideas of John Maynard Keynes as the best and most effective framework, for both economic theory and policy, to address the rapidly spreading global financial and economic crisis.

It’s hard to overestimate the change Nov. 4 has brought in its wake. We have entered a new era, with a new political dynamic calling for new tactics to advance the agenda shaped in the course of the campaign to elect Barack Obama.

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 7(acn) The film Che by renowned US movie maker Steven Soderbergh was premiered here on Saturday during the 30th International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema.