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The quagmire of the Rev. Wright is media-generated. They mercilessly crucified him by spinning big lies about his sermons. The effect included threats on his life and family and bombing threats on his church. His congregation, 8,000 strong, is being hounded and church services are disrespected.

In the big immigrant marches that swept the country on May Day in 2006 and 2007, one sign said it all: “We are workers, not criminals!” Often it was held in the calloused hands of men and women who looked as though they’d just come from work in a factory, cleaning an office building, or picking grapes.

McCain is the enemy

New Deal for people, not Wall Street

Prison spending stats

McCain, wrong again

The one message voters are sending with the unprecedented upsurge in the primary turnouts is that they are determined to turn the page on 35 years of ultra-right control of their destinies.

Last week’s Supreme Court decision allowing states to require a photo ID to be able to vote is a big step in the wrong direction.

A billion people are at risk of starvation this year, according to United Nations estimates on the impact of rapidly rising food prices. Over half the increase is in major U.S. agricultural commodities like corn (heavily subsidized by U.S. government policy), arising from the conversion of production to “biofuel” products like ethanol. The latter has been championed by George W. Bush — his simple-minded solution to reliance on Mid-East oil. Actually it costs as much energy to make biofuel as is produced when it burns. Fill up an SUV with ethanol and you will consume enough food to feed a child for a year.

TAMPA, Fla. — Arizona Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, unveiled his health care plan at the Moffitt Cancer Center here April 29, calling for private health savings accounts. An hour or so later, Florida union health care workers convened a news conference nearby to blast his scheme as a carbon copy of George W. Bush’s discredited “medical savings accounts.”

Turning grief and shock to anger and action, hundreds of Chicago high school students, teachers, administrators, parents and elected officials rallied here April 1 against the crisis of gun violence plaguing the city. The rally was called in response to the shooting death of the 21st student this school year in the public school system

WASHINGTON – Miles de asistentes a la conferencia “Take Back America” (Retomen a Nuestro País) celebrada aquí del 17 al 19 de marzo gritaban su apoyo cuando oradores llamaron a que se movilice una compaña concertada de inscripción de votantes para poner fin a 30 años de dominio republicano ultraderechista y para abrir camino hacia el cambio progresista.

El 11 de marzo, la congresista republicana Thelma Drake de Virginia sometió una petición para que el proyecto de ley SAVE, HR 4088, sea considerada directamente por la Cámara de Representantes, omitiendo su consideración en varias comisiones legislativas.