In the final week of August 2004 in New York City, thousands gathered in Union Square to protest the Republican National Convention – the site of George W. Bush’s re-nomination – and their discontent over the president’s war in Iraq. The decidedly less-than-warm welcome resulted in the arrests of 1,806 people, a number unparalleled in [...]

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The Supreme Court issued an order on May 12 stating that it would not be able to hear a case involving black South Africans suing 50 of some of the worlds largest corporations because the court lacked a quorum. The suit is being brought against such corporations as British Petroleum, Exxon Mobile, IBM, 3M, Citigroup, [...]

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From March 13 to 16, veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq gathered at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland, to give personal testimonies of their actions while in combat. The event was organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War and was modeled on the Winter Soldier hearings that took place in [...]

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While Iowa was still the epicenter of the 2008 presidential race, Dennis Kucinich was excluded from two significant campaign events here. The first was the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, the Iowa Democratic Party’s important early testing space for the Democratic candidates. On Democracy Now! Kucinich attributed his exclusion from the dinner to “an attempt to rig the [...]

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On December 5, the Black Student Union at the University of Iowa announced its boycott of a popular locale in Iowa City, Brothers Bar and Grill. The boycott comes in response to photos posted on the bar’s website showing three men wearing blackface at the bar during a Halloween costume party. One photo shows a [...]

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The record industry claimed its latest victim in its ongoing struggle against Internet music piracy on October 23. Interpol, working in tandem with the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and British Phonographic Industry (BPI), seized the domain of OiNK’s Pink Palace, the Web’s premiere private peer-to-peer BitTorrent tracker music filesharing site, and placed [...]

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The New York Times reported that the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Kevin Martin, wants to schedule a vote to decrease media ownership restrictions on December 18th, 2007. The proposed measure would lift restrictions currently prohibiting the ownership of both a newspaper and a television station in the same city by the same company. [...]

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In the small town of Jena, Louisiana (population 3,000) a complicated civil rights debate has erupted. The story originated in September 2006, when a black student requested permission from school officials to sit under a tree in his schoolyard that was typically understood as being reserved for white students. Rightfully, he was told to sit [...]

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A boycott started by over 150 immigrant organizations across the country has targeted the money transfer giant Western Union. The boycott has criticized Western Union for charging immigrants excessive fees and non-standard exchange rates for money they send home. “We aim to get justice for immigrants and allow them to build the wealth that they [...]

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