San Francisco hotel workers announce that their union, UNITE HERE Local 2, has reached agreement on a new contract with the city's leading hotels.

Probably the most compelling argument to date that the use of Tasers should be banned is the fact that several large police departments have now prohibited testing them on fellow officers during training exercises.

US Rep. Steve Rothman (D-NJ) became the 38th Member of the US Congress officially listed as a supporter of H. Res. 635, a bill which could lead to recommendations to impeach President Bush.

Nearly 200 members and allies of Pride at Work, AFL-CIO (PAW) met for its national convention this past weekend.

The Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) being held in Havana this week may well represent a key moment in the revival and reorganization of the unity of the nations of the South as an international political force to be reckoned with, thereby influencing the decisions of international organizations.

In a statement to the press on Monday, President Abbas said that "an agreement has been reached with the Prime Minister Ismail Haniya regarding the political program of the coming national unity government."

THIS big book on the US-led occupation of Iraq is written by the Washington Post's senior Pentagon correspondent, who, until the end of 1999, covered the US military for the Wall Street Journal.

Japanese peace organizations on August 30 staged a protest in front of the U.S. embassy in Tokyo against a U.S. subcritical nuclear test called "Unicorn" to be conducted at the Nevada Test Site.

A march of 5000 people in San Francisco, protesting bills in the US Congress which would criminalize immigrant status and violate the rights of immigrants, and calling for legalization of the undocumented.

George W. Bush is an ordinary human being, in fact a quite stupid one.  So are all of his handlers.  They are ordinary people, and we have the power, should we choose to use it, to throw them out of our public housing.

Progressives have a lot to keep up with these days. Besides having to keep tabs on the new and refurbished old theories of the right and left plus keep track of the aggressive misuse of Christian doctrine for right-wing partisan advantage,.

When war waged in our name takes place on a distant continent and afflicts a people whose language we don’t speak, whose religion we don’t practice, and whose customs we don’t understand, our capacity for empathy is diminished.

Endangered sea turtles. These graceful creatures have long fascinated people and for years the United States has played a lead role globally in their protection.

President Bush was greeted by protesters this morning as he was in Atlanta at the Cobb Galleria Centre to flog his proposed legislation regarding military tribunals for terrorism suspects.

On the dry, brown prairie just a few miles west of Belle Fourche, (pronounced BELL-foosh,) South Dakota, a town that styles itself the geographic heart of America, you can pull your car off two-lane blacktop highway 212 and watch the antelope graze.

In the five years since Al Qaeda terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, the world has seen U.S invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, the recent Israeli invasion of South Lebanon, and the strengthening of groups who launch murderous attacks on high profile civilian targets as publicity stunts for their political positions. 

When kids open their lunchboxes after a hard morning of the three Rs (readin’, ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic), they hardly expect to be learning about the other three Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle).