New York's billionaire mayor is so opposed to a tiny raise for workers at companies that get public money that he's vowed to sue. What's the deal with living wage laws anyway?
Alexander Zaitchik, American Independent News Network. May 15, 2012.
New York’s marijuana arrests, says a growing chorus of critics, are a prime example of how the nation’s drug laws disproportionately impact black and Latino communities.
After a Goldman Sachs investment banker write an op-ed saying the company was toxic, Mayor Mike Bloomberg visited the firm's HQ to personally cheer them up.
The upscale grocery delivery service pays less than $9 an hour, has faced discrimination complaints, and is a union-buster--so why is New York giving it a handout?
Since the police commissioner told the NYPD to follow the books on marijuana arrests, all that's changed are the court proceedings that unfairly criminalize thousands.
If we are going to contribute to this huge fight against unbridled global capitalism, we must accept the anxiety and uncertainty of doing things differently.
Manissa McCleave Maharawal, AlterNet. October 31, 2011.
A participant in the Liberty Plaza occupation on the way the movement is changing and the people it's touching, from Eliot Spitzer to Baruch college freshmen.
Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch.com. October 23, 2011.
The Occupy Wall Streeters are beginning to discover what homeless people have known all along--that most ordinary activities are illegal when performed in American streets.
The movement spreading around the United States and the world is simply too big and too radical to be co-opted by political parties or establishment groups.
A feature about Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan raises questions about why the creative, innovative public servant is so frequently attacked.
