More than a dozen organizers said in interviews that they had often been pressured to detail such personal anguish — sometimes under the threat of dismissal from their union positions — and that their supervisors later used the information to press them to comply with their orders.

“It’s extremely cultlike and extremely manipulative,” said Amelia Frank-Vitale, a Yale graduate and former hotel union organizer who said these practices drove her to see a therapist.

Palestinian Children fair better than their Arab neighbors

lies and deceit about health care reform

Se creen dueños de ella

Several cities including Chicago are mobilizing marches and vigils to protest the gratuitous murder a few days ago of Jorge Steven Lόpez Mercado, a gay Puerto Rican teenager. Lόpez, well known as gay in his hometown of Caguas, Puerto Rico, was decapitated, his limbs severed, and his body burned.

Imagine - doing the right thing is economically beneficial

Almost every day we hear about another reactionary act by the latest fascist in the White House, Democratic millionaire, warmonger, death penalty promoter Obama. The latest is the fact that he refuses to drop the charges and dismiss the frame-up of 70-year-old seriously ill people's lawyer Lynne Stewart and her co-defendants but instead allows the 2d Circuit to immediately jail her. The protests must be loud and clear as this is fascism

With President Obama's trip to East Asia ending later this week, his long expected announcement of a troop surge to deepen the United States' occupation of Afghanistan is expected soon.