These are the editorials from our bi-weekly workplace newsletters, which consist of a two-sided leaflet with a general editorial on one side, and on the other side short articles about the workplace or general issues of concern to workers, written by and with workers from the workplace.
Each New Year people take stock of their lives and make resolutions hoping to change …
2010 is drawing to a close. People will gather with friends and family to celebrate. …
On December 9th, inmates in the Georgia state prisons started the biggest U.S. prison strike …
In case you haven’t noticed, the Holiday season is in full swing. Everywhere we go …
Last week, the website Wikileaks began to release more than 250,000 secret US government documents …
On November 30th, the website Wikileaks released 250,000 private communications between U.S. officials and foreign …
As the effects of this economic crisis are being shoved in the faces of workers, …
Once again the Thanksgiving holiday has arrived. People across the country will cook food and …
If we’re not already among the millions of people unemployed right now, we all know …
Johannes Mehserle, a white BART cop, murdered Oscar Grant, an unarmed 22-year old black man, …
The midterm elections came and went last week without any surprises. As was expected, these …
Every two and four years the elections come to town like a big circus. For …
Last Friday, another 400,000 secret documents about the US war in Iraq were leaked to …
From young to old, the French workers are fighting against the attacks of the government. …
“What the legislature has done, the streets can undo!” This was the slogan on many …
Last Friday, state politicians finally voted on a state budget. The budget was due in …
Young people in America are victims of a system that is denying them a future. …
On Saturday, October 2, tens of thousands of workers from all over the US., attended …
Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Black man, was murdered early in the morning on New Year’s …
Last week, eight city officials from Bell, California, including the mayor, were arrested and taken …
On August 31, the Obama administration announced that the war in Iraq is ending, and …
Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau reported a massive increase in the federal poverty rate. …
The uproar over building an Islamic center a few blocks away from the site of …
For months now the media has been full of stories of the so-called Tea Party …
For many workers this past weekend was a rare moment to actually spend time with …
With last week’s heat wave came a wave of violence and death. In San Jose, …
The Obama administration announced recently that troops in Iraq are withdrawing from the country and …
If you’ve paid any attention to the news lately, you could not have avoided the …
Proposition 8 was passed in California in November, 2008. It ruled that marriage must be …
Last week, 75,000 secret military documents exposing the brutal reality of the US war in …
The war on the people of Afghanistan has been raging since 2001. The war on …
Summer usually brings the expectation of good times – when people can look forward to …
The news is giving us a distorted picture of reality. It is a picture which …
The distorted news coverage of the trial of Johannes Mehserle is just one example of …
The shocking verdict in the case of Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop who killed Oscar …
The verdict is about to come down in the case of Johannes Mehserle, the BART …
Oscar Grant was just one of many young Black men shot by police officers in …
Oakland faces a budget deficit of $31 million. The city has less money from property …
The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico continues to pour thousands and perhaps millions …
The British Petroleum oil leak is the biggest oil-related disaster in history. But its size …
For seven weeks, millions of gallons of oil have been flowing into the Gulf of …
On Monday of last week, a fleet of humanitarian ships approached the Gaza strip, a …
For one month now millions of gallons of oil have poured into the Gulf of …
Last Friday, Governor Schwarzenegger announced his revised budget proposal, which looks a lot like the …
On April 20th, the Deepwater horizon, a British Petroleum (BP) oil rig off the coast …
This past Sunday, more people in the U.S. usually go out to eat in restaurants …
A horrific anti-immigration law (SB 1070) was passed last week in Arizona. Under the new …
Immigrants in the U.S. • The U.S. has always been a country of immigrants. The …
One of the most important working class holidays, May 1 or May Day, originated in …
Tax (noun) – definition 1. an amount of money levied by a government on its …
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