Labor, Community Leaders Target Wal-Mart September 21 (tags)
Neighborhood activists and labor unions are organizing San Diego's biggest-ever anti-Wal-Mart demonstration Saturday, September 22 in the Golden Hill and Sherman Heights neighborhoods. Though the Wal-Mart in Sherman Heights hasn't even been built yet, it's already driving local businesses to close or cut back — and Wal-Mart has systematically refused to make any promises to the community to hire locally or mitigate the impacts of their store.
BTL:U.S. Stands Apart from Most Latin American Nations' Consensus at Summit of the America (tags)
Interview with Alex Main, senior associate for international policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, conducted by Scott Harris
BTL:Greeks Resist Harsh Austerity Measures Imposed by Eurozone as Condition for New $172 B (tags)
Interview with Costas Panayotakis, author and associate professor of sociology at New York City College of Technology, conducted by Scott Harris
BTL:Study Finds Surface and Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Degrades Water Quality (tags)
Interview with Emily Bernhardt, an associate professor of biology at Duke University, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
BTL: Egypt's Second Popular Uprising Targets Military's Hold on Power (tags)
Interview with Seif Da’Na, associate professor of sociology and international studies at the University of Wisconsin, conducted by Scott Harris
BTL:Grim Economic Data Illustrate the Severe Decline of America's Middle Class (tags)
Interview with Andy Kroll, Mother Jones Magazine reporter and associate editor at TomDispatch.com, conducted by Scott Harris
BTL:Populist Backlash Against GOP Anti-Union Legislation, Cannot by Itself Reverse Labor's (tags)
Interview with Andrew Kroll, reporter with Mother Jones and associate editor of TomDispatch.com, conducted by Scott Harris
Theater Artists Committed To The Madhouse (tags)
Andrew Utter announces formation of his new Los Angeles theater company, Uranium Madhouse
SC RULING SETS BAD PRECEDENT-AJLPP (tags)
The Alliance Philippines (AJLPP) in a statement today, scored the Supreme Court for its bad decision for exonerating Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo from allegations that he plagiarized portions of a ruling on World War II comfort women. The Alliance also commends Associate Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno for his dissenting opinion on the matter. In a strongly-worded dissenting opinion made public on Monday, Supreme Court Associate Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno said the court will be remembered for saying Del Castillo did not commit plagiarism because there was "no malicious intent" to pass off someone else's works as his own.
A Global Ecological Argument for a Basic Income (tags)
Erik Christensen is an associate professor of economics in Denmark.
Corruption: Intimidation, Politics and Drug Industry Cripple U.S. Medicine (tags)
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to safeguard the nation's medical products, but they're "taking care of business rather than patient safety",says FDA's associate safety director Dr. David J. Graham. In interviews, he and others highlight the all too brutal facts.
SCHOLARS URGE U.S., NORTH KOREA TO NEGOTIATE PEACE (tags)
On June 25, the anniversary of the Korean War, the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea (ASCK) calls for the US and North Korea to negotiate peace, normalize relations, and end the Korean war.