A week or two ago I began to think about the reality that it had been about a year since Obama won the election. And, about a week or two ago, I began to see and read the first conversations about how the 2012 Election is… Read full post »

Challenging a System That Makes Doctors Complicit

At least three doctors will be risking arrest in civil disobedience actions during Mobilization for Healthcare for All’s third wave of actions this week.

Ken Weinberg, who will be risking arr… Read full post »

The Showdown in Chicago is here and I wonder if it will live up to the hype that organizers have created around it. Certainly, there has been a lot of buzz and with the support of organizations like the National People's Action and the SEIU it… Read full post »

George Goehl, a member of a broad coalition behind the organization of the Showdown in Chicago, which will take place October 25-27, sees this action as a way to target the banks and direct… Read full post »

Larry Ginter, family farmer and farm activist from Iowa

Larry Ginter is just one of the many ordinary folks looking to gain a sense of faith, hope, and dignity from taking part in the Showdown in Chicago, which will happen October 25-27 as the American Bankers Association… Read full post »

 ***Welcome to a post that will be updated constantly throughout the weekend. The following is the story of an 81-year old who lost a large portion of her retirement savings during the financial collapse. She tells her story and explains why Americans must take on the banks in the Showdown in… Read full post »

Emergency physician Paul Hochfeld from Portland, Oregon, who traveled from Portland to Washington, D.C. with a group of doctors from different associations affiliated with the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) argues that doctors like him are a huge part of… Read full post »

Sam Pullen, 31, honored his mother's spirit on October 15^th by engaging in a sit-in at a Blue Cross in Los Angeles with a group of individuals who gathered to demand that insurance companies immediately grant approval for treatment of all the… Read full post »

Just over a year after a wave of bailouts for financial institutions that the American people were told were “too big to fail,” Wall Street’s addiction to legalized greed and to crony capitalism continues. Worse, the White House and Congress are c… Read full post »

 In less than two hours, one of the most important social and political events in the history of the fight for LGBT equality will begin. A march in D.C., a culmination of a weekend of breakout sessions, trainings, breakfasts, dinners, will take off… Read full post »

The morning after a powerful, invigorating, heartfelt Special Comment from Keith Olbermann on his news show, Countdown, a small group of civil rights advocates came together to directly challenge the operations of Cigna Insurance in our nation's health care system.

As part of a campaign known as Mobi… Read full post »

Correction: 61 were arrested, not 82; previously, this post reported 82 arrests were made.

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A news story from the UK is suggesting that Obama has a "rogue general" on his hands. That can't be good.

I think I can sympathize with Obama here. How frustrating must it have been to have to call Gen.… Read full post »

Today, Michael Moore’s film, Capitalism: A Love Story, opens in theatres nationwide. It will be shown on over 1,000 screens and there will be free screenings in some of the poorest cities across the country for the homeless and the poor.

Moore's film… Read full post »

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Congress is currently planning to reform the worst parts of the PATRIOT Act and parts of the act that are due to sunset on Dec. 31st.

If you're like me and worry about Congress replacing this act that has an Orwellian-sounding name with another act… Read full post »

The Right has shown in the past months it has extraordinary power in America. Even when in the minority, the Right is proving that, through certain apparatuses and organizations, it can determine the shape and outcome of policy and who… Read full post »

How fitting is it that during a week of premieres for Michael Moore’s new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, the “group of twenty” nations (G20), which together account for about 85 percent of the world’s economy, were in town to revitalize global free market polici… Read full post »

Three people in the midst of action during the G20 took the time to speak to me over the phone from Pittsburgh. I reported on what they said about the military and police presence and how they thought it was an overreaction---a part of a comprehensive strategy… Read full post »

 See Part 2 --- Visions of a Future That Isn't Defined by G20 Summits

Update: What's a Sonic Cannon? 

News reports from the ground at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh are giving the impression that there is… Read full post »

The blog, Think Progress, has put together a good post on a recent Detroit premiere of Michael Moore's new film "Capitalism: A Love Story," which details how Moore and the press were essentially banned from attending because the theatre was owned by the auto company.

Moore spok… Read full post »

A recently published scientific paper suggests that “harsh interrogations” (torture) most likely “impaired the memories of suspects, diminishing their ability to recall and provide the detailed information” the CIA wanted.

According to the AP, the scie… Read full post »

Who knows what Jeremy Thomas, the producer of Creation a film on Charles Darwin’s life, has and has not done to find a distributor in the U.S. He may have not shopped around enough, but/… Read full post »