“We are trying to have workers become as trendy as local and organic has become in the industry,” Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of Restaurant Opportunities Center, told us. “It’s going to take the three stakeholders - workers, good employers, and consumers - working together to actually change things."
Former Colombian guerrilla fighter Alirio Arroyave believes his country can turn the high-minded rhetoric of current government-paramilitary peace talks into a reality through the unrealized promise of direct democracy, a dream that persuaded him to lay down his arms twenty years ago.
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan stopped in Chicago to speak out in support of Bradley Manning. Sheehan started her cross-country bicycling tour in California on April 4, nine years to the day her son Casey was killed in Iraq.
How is it that a couple of kids with crock pots could bomb the Boston Marathon, when counter-terrorism is the FBI's top priority? In The Terror Factory, Trevor Aaronson suggests that part of the problem might be the nature of the FBI's successes.
We need to take one more step in integrating peoples, which is to organize mass struggles. When people stay seated, they’re no good for anything. We have to put our energy in each country to build struggles against our principal enemies: the banks, the transnational companies, and the media controlled by the bourgeoisie.
It is becoming more likely that Americans will one day cast their votes in national elections with just the click of a mouse. What the American public doesn’t know is that sitting at the controls of Internet voting technology is a group of private corporations whose board members and CEOs once worked for the US intelligence community.
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