Jan. 27, 2007

In November, millions of union members and their families marched to the polls and dumped the anti-worker, pro-war Congress, the first step toward stomping out the Bush regime.

The grand stage in professional sports is the Super Bowl. Amid all the usual accompanying Super Bowl hoopla, for the first time in its 41-year history African Amer-ican coaches will lead their teams onto the field of America’s premier sports event. Super Bowl XLI opens Black History month with a bang.

Teachers unions, other public education advocates, parents, administrators and students are gearing up for a big fight on the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind law that will happen this year. There’s a small but important piece missing so far. And that’s the opportunity to get rid of the sweeping access that military recruiters have to our kids.

Every day during December there were reports of young Marines begin killed in Iraq. Each report brought a terrible tinge of fear: would this report be of the 20-year-old Marine Humvee driver who’s been there since mid-2006 and is part of our extended family?

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has introduced legislation, the Healthy Americans Act (HAA), that purports to guarantee “universal, private health insurance for all Americans.” The HAA is, in fact, one of the most radically destructive proposals ever put forward to address the failings of the American health care system.

Women’s rights need to be addressed among essential changes required in Iraq’s constitution.

This is a movie about a dedicated teacher in a gang-ridden high school in the Long Beach, Calif., area, whose students — white, African American, Latino and Asian — are divided along racial lines. Since I am married to a retired schoolteacher, the film particularly hit home with me, as I could relate to the problems confronted by teachers as educational workers.

When have you ever seen the real-life character of Karl Marx in a play, on television or on a movie screen? Certainly not in capitalist America, which has spent more time and money than any country on earth attempting to prove his ideas wrong.