States Tackle Student Debt and For-Profit Colleges Rise (tags)
Washington, DC - As Democratic presidential candidates debate student debt, States attempt to tackle what they see as a debt problem impacting their economies.
A Year of Trump and Right-wing Populism (tags)
In the GOP tax bill, $5 trillion is given to households with over $1 million income. Seniors, the poor, children and students are attacked. The severe cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, HUD, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, Pell grants, SNAP, WIC food assistance are sadistic.
Tyson Foods, 2nd Largest Slaughter Operation Worldwide, Charged With Animal Cruelty (tags)
Tyson's Kills Millions Of Cows And Pigs And 22.1 Billion Chickens A Year. Workers have many injuries, some deaths. Over 45 billion chickens and turkeys in the US died of avian flu. Tyson's is the 2nd largest slaughter operation in the world and supplies McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Taco Bell, KFC, WalMart, IGA etc. and prisons
US Intends "Direct Action on the Ground" Supporting ISIS (tags)
anti-war
Gaza in Ruins a Year After Israeli Aggression (tags)
Israel
Don't Travel to Israel Ever for Any Reason! (tags)
Israel
REBELLIONS IN NORTH AMERICA (tags)
REBELLIONS IN NORTH AMERICA:NEEDS OF ADVANCE, SYMPTOMS OF THE FUTURE
Report: BPD Investigation of Civilian Complaints Took More Than a Year (tags)
A new report by a panel that oversees the Boston Police Department’s handling of civilian complaints against officers has found that the vast majority of complaints it reviewed since 2011 took Internal Affairs more than a year to investigate, far longer than law enforcement experts say is appropriate.
Occupy Fights Foreclosure protests at Wells Fargo Bank in Hollywood (tags)
Occupy Fights Foreclosure protests inside Wells Fargo bank in Hollywood on December 6, 2012.
Occupy Fights Foreclosure protests at Wells Fargo Bank in Hollywood on December 6, 2012 (tags)
Occupy Fights Foreclosures protests inside Wells Fargo bank in Hollywood.
Explaining the Wealth Gap to "Poets" (tags)
Humans naturally see the world logarithmically, according to a Radiolab episode, Numbers. By addressing this issue, we can ease the understanding of the wealth gap.
Post-Quake Haiti: One Year Later (tags)
Haiti worse off than ever
Switzerland: Short film on Zurich's Autonomous School (tags)
On 19 April, a barrack on a plot belonging to the freight depot of Zurich's railway station was squatted and revived. The barrack has been empty for more than a year. The Canton of Zurich plans to build a new police and justice center for 570 million Swiss francs (US$ 500 million) on the plot.
Blac Blocs NVDA [Stop Motion Music Video] (tags)
The stop-motion animation that took us over a year to complete is finally online...
General Strike & Tax on Millionaires & Billionaires in Cal Needed Now (tags)
The State of California is set to issue IOUs instead of checks today, July 1, 2009, because the progressive income tax on the rich, those who make over $200,000 a year, has been cut instead of raised and because labor has not declared the overdue GENERAL STRIKE.
Obama & Olmert Shake Hands; Zionism Divides Arab & Jewish Workingclass (tags)
Two warmongers shook hands recently, Ehud Olmert and Barack Obama. Obama has always voted to give $6 billion a year to Israel, as do all Democrats and Republicans. The founding of the State of Israel was a deliberate effort to divide the Arab and Jewish workingclass with this war machine to maximize the profits of the capitalist class.
To Democrats for Genocide in Palestine: We Will Never Forgive or Forget (tags)
As of January 18, 2009, there are 1300 dead Palestinians and 5,450 wounded in the latest US/Israel Massacre of Gaza, many seriously by American white phosphorous and all the other weapons, all paid for with $15 million a day/$6 billion a year from the American taxpayers, supported 100% by the Democratic and Republican Parties, the twin parties of genocide.
Remembering Edward Said Five Years On (tags)
Honoring this great man.
6/6 Los Angeles Teachers Strike; General Strike Needed (tags)
Los Angeles teachers are finally striking for the first hour of today's school day against the budget cuts to education; the rest of labor needs to join them in a statewide general strike not only against budget cuts but also against the refusal of the state legislature to raise the income taxes on the rich, the 5% that makes over $200,000 a year, including the millionaires and billionaires who live in California.
The Great Plastic Meltdown (tags)
The real estate crisis turned out more serious than the bank's risk divisions estimated. The prices for new homes fell twelve percent in December 2007. The assets of private households shriveled two trillion dollars within a year.
Climate Disasters Have Increased 4 X in Past 20 Yrs (tags)
The Oxfam International Organization has released a new report:
A brief update, trial date moved, fundraising and more....
The government pays these criminals rather well (tags)
At least 20 former lawmakers convicted of crimes are eligible for taxpayer-funded pensions, some as high as $125,000 a year
Bomber says prison driving him insane (tags)
Cruel and unusuall punishment? A longer version of this article was in Newsweek, Time or one of those other national weekly news magazines. It sounded like they are pretty much locked into a single cell by themselfs for 23 hours a day, 365 days a year with nothing to do but read and watch a limited number of channels on TV.
South Korea: Sex industry a 21 BILLION dollar a year industry (tags)
Exploitation of women in the sex trade industry
2004 ~ A Year in Dissent (tags)
5 minute highlight videoof the 2004 protest season
America's Opportunity to Educate (tags)
"Imagine a school where every teacher is amazing, charismatic, knowledgeable and can address every student's needs.. All we have to do to attain the New American Dream is convince a majority to vote in its best interest.."
Revealed: how 'war hero' Kerry tried to put off Vietnam military duty (tags)
Senator John Kerry, the presumed Democratic presidential candidate who is trading on his Vietnam war record to campaign against President George W Bush, tried to defer his military service for a year, according to a newly rediscovered article in a Harvard University newspaper.
The current crop of GOP candidates parrots absurdities about term limits and fiscal responsibility--makes you wonder if they have any concept of the real world.
In 2003, the cost of the war was put at $50 billion and now it is $160 billion and rising -- and this is an unprovoked war of choice.
Are you Afraid of Bush? (tags)
This is simply a must read...
Reflections on 2003: Ideologues and prophets, left and right (tags)
2003 was not a year of Historic Victories or Historic Defeats; it was a year of constantly shifting relations of power between imperialism and popular resistance movements.
Padilla and the teetering scales (tags)
Jose Padilla won reprieve from the courts today who ruled that his designation as an enemy combatant by our own King George was unconstitutional. After over a year in confinement, shredded habeus corpus, and not even one charge brought against him, he is finally entitled to a fair trial.
Millionaires and the Unemployed (tags)
"The millionaire could simply pay his unemployed. If we calculate 12X5X1000 is 60,000 Euros a year. This is the sum that the highest segment of this class saves by the lowering of the top tax rate from 48 to 42 percent planned by Mr. Schroeder."
Let'em Eat Cake - Citizens Ripped-Off Big Time (tags)
"Let'em Eat Cake", that's the message from Washington/AARP, now identified as, American Association of Repugnant Pimps; per the Bill written-of, for, and by the pharmaceutical companies. Â I take exception to the fact that we are paying the salaries of legislators and for the upkeep of the marbled halls of corporate government. The executive board rooms of the pharmaceuticals, oil, gas, electric etc., would be better suited to the privatization of government on all levels. Let them pay for the heating, lights and perks.
Family And City Remember Gwen Araujo, Murders of Transgenders Continue Unabated (tags)
A year can pass by in a seeming heartbeat. For family members of a slain child, though, a year can seem an eternity. On the first anniversary of her Gwen Araujo's murder, Sylvia Guerrero sat with approximately fifty family members in a memorial to her daughter.
Let the rich pay, Camejo says (tags)
Green Party candidate Peter Camejo has unveiled a budget proposal which calls for strikingly higher income tax rates on Californians who earn more than $500,000 a year, changing Proposition 13 to allow reappraisals of many corporate properties and tax cuts for low-wage earners.
Where does Al-Qaeda's Funding Come From? (tags)
Where does Al-Qaeda's Funding come from. Why would their supposed enemies ignore this huge Red Flag?
From Whence Comes Income? (tags)
Much of the ignorance on the left comes from the false perception that income is distributed rather than earned.
pictures you will NEVER see on US TV (tags)
The Right-wing junta is creating another cycle of hate against America, built on a war justified by a massive pile of lies. Thanks Dubya.
Pasadena #2 Vigil Report (tags)
Dear Indymedia, Our vigil is an example of a totally grassroots effort. One week there were two participants, the following week five, and then there were 29.
Is Osama tape over a year old? (tags)
Is the recently aired "Osama tape" over a year old?
ISRAEL & SAUDI BOOST U.S. WAR PLANTS (tags)
The money that U.S. gives to Israel go mainly to U.S.war plants. The Saudis buy $4 billion a year from the same "defense" manufacturing companies. The clout of the Israeli lobby is way overrated. is way o