GREELEY, Colo. - It had been nearly 30 years since the Rev. Carl Kabat and a group of peace activists, including his fellow Catholic priests Daniel and Philip Berrigan, barged into a General Electric weapons plant outside Philadelphia. Known as the Plowshares Eight, they battered missile nose cones with hammers in an effort to disable some of the world's most fearsome weapons, and sprinkled blood on classified documents to protest the cold war, before they were arrested.
After several weeks of protests at Senate hearings and health care events by single payer advocates (visit singlepayeraction.org),
six physicians from Oregon, with 191 years of combined real-world
medical experience, are crossing the country in a 27-foot Winnebago
making stops in nearly 30 cities, to debate, educate and advance full
medicare for all.
1,000 demonstrators gathered at North Carolina's capitol on Saturday to support Barack Obama's proposals for universal healthcare.
In one of four rallies across the state, some carried placards stating:
"If it's broke, fix it", and "Insurance profits bad for my health",
while ironic "Billionaires against healthcare" strode the grounds in
top hats, carrying fat ci
See if you recognize this story: A small group of academics and analysts come together to propose reforms to the U.S. health care system.
At noon tomorrow thousands of activists will swoop on London for this summer's
Climate Camp.
I’ve spent much of the past 20 years living in or reporting on the former
communist countries of Eastern Europe.
Where are the liberal protesters?
Wall Street and the abuses of corporate America crashed the economy, leaving regular people anxious and financially insecure. Yet the far right, not the reformist left, is getting the political windfall.
A coalition of groups opposed to the G-20 met last night to plan
what appears to be shaping up as a 21st Century battle for Fort Pitt --
saying the city has blocked plans to protest.
Some hinted at civil disobedience, others at civil litigation.
"I've always had it in the back of my mind about civil disobedience
and being arrested," said Kathy Cunningham, a Sharpsburg woman who said
she has long experience marching in the streets, but none to date
waiting in a jail cell.
Dear GeorgeOn the desk in front of me is a set of graphs. The horizontal axis of each represents the years 1750 to 2000. The graphs show, variously, population levels, CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, exploitation of fisheries, destruction of tropical forests, paper consumption, number of motor vehicles, water use, the rate of species extinction and the totality of the human economy's gross domestic product.
A year ago, 44 ordinary people from 17 different countries sailed to Gaza in two small wooden boats. We did what our governments would not do -- we broke through the Israeli siege. During the last year the Free Gaza Movement has organized seven more voyages, successfully arriving to Gaza on five separate occasions.
