AltWeeklies Wire
Democracy Comes Home to Wisconsinnew
Starting with about 10,000 workers and their supporters at the beginning of the week, numbers swelled to nearly 40,000 by Feb. 18, the largest protests in the state since the Vietnam War era.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
02-25-2011 |
Business & Labor
The Cost of War— The One We Didn’t Winnew
No matter how much we have spent on the “reconstruction” of Iraq, we have left a nation in ruins.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
09-07-2010 |
War
CFAC Files Suit Against L.A. City Council
The California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC) filed a complaint against the City of Los Angeles after the Council refused to “cure and correct” an inadequately noticed February 18 agenda item that surreptitiously called for 4,000 City workers and positions to be cut.
Random Lengths News |
Terelle Jerricks |
05-06-2010 |
Civil Liberties
The Dark Past Of An Elephants' Oasis In The Mother Lodenew
Author Lionel Rolfe interviewed Pat Derby and Ark2000 reflecting on the plight of the earth's largest animals in captivity.
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Lionel Rolfe |
03-22-2010 |
Animal Issues
Hate, Taxes and the Expectation of Changenew
This country is not as tolerant nor sophisticated or civilized as we like to believe and yet we criticize other countries for their extremists.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
07-05-2009 |
Policy Issues
2500 Protest Prop 8 Decision in Long Beachnew
Only 2,500 turned out for the Meet in the Middle Rally when the California Supreme Court upheld proposition 8, but the affirmation of the 18,000 gay marriages that occurred during the 5-month window that gay couple could legally wed remains a beacon of hope.
Random Lengths News |
Zamna Avila |
06-06-2009 |
Civil Liberties
Lesbian Minister Rises from the Shadowsnew
When members of Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride, Inc. nominated Rev. Sunshine Daye to be a Community Grand Marshal for its 2009 celebration, approving the nomination was easy for its board of directors.
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Zamna Avila |
05-11-2009 |
LGBT
Afghanistan: Obama’s Vietnam?new
While Bush never listened to those who disagreed with him politically, Obama seems to have made a fetish of the opposite: on the issue of Afghanistan, he has listened almost exclusively to Bush holdovers in the military, from Defense Secretary Gates on down, while tuning out those whose diverse alternative approaches have much more support in his political base.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
04-04-2009 |
War
Tags: Afghanistan, international
Silence of the Cranes: The Sound of Recessionnew
It is not every day that you can walk out on the streets of this bustling port town and comment on how quiet it is. Enough so that in the middle of the Port of Los Angeles' executive meeting this week, the silence of the cranes slipped into the room and begged the obvious question, "Is this the sound of the great recession of 2009?"
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
03-25-2009 |
Economy
Tags: Port of Los Angeles, recession
The Right To Breathe Free: A School Nurse Speaks Outnew
A nurse at a school for homeless children in Long Beach opposes development projects that are likely to have a negative effect on local air quality.
Random Lengths News |
Suzanne Arnold |
03-21-2009 |
Environment
Hanging the Messenger
How Viacom killed Dan Rather and the story of Bush's National Guard service.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
01-16-2008 |
Media
LA County Fed Forms Partnership With Shanghai Unions
It's the first formal relationship between a U.S. central labor council and their equivalent in China.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
07-12-2007 |
International
Tags: international
Arnold Beats Up Cripples To Balance Budget
Between the governor's initial January budget and his May Revise, the document he's crafted to set California's priorities not only takes money from the elderly, blind, and disabled, it also raids money from public transit funds.
Random Lengths News |
By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor |
06-01-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Blackwater Seeps Through Loopholes In Other Countries
Inside Chile's "mercenary problem."
Random Lengths News |
Erik Kongshaug |
05-02-2007 |
International
Tags: international
Clean Air Plan Puts Pressure on Ports
The AQMD aims for 50 percent smog cuts by 2020.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
10-25-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
