Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. May 16, 2008. In endorsing Sen. Obama, John Edwards again made a plea on behalf of millions living in poverty.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. April 3, 2008. 40 years ago Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pointed to the link between war abroad and poverty at home. Sadly, his observation is just as true today.
Maxine Frith, The Independent UK. March 5, 2008. Rates of female participation in governments across the world are still appallingly low, and women face endemic discrimination in nearly all sectors.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. March 3, 2008. President Bush claims that Afghani women are "learning the blessings of freedom." But all we've given them is poverty, death and abuse.
Max Rameau, Movement Vision Lab. February 15, 2008. Let's be blunt. A government ban on the n-word does little to combat racism, poverty and oppression.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. January 30, 2008. Edwards did something that no one else did: He made poverty no longer a dirty word in the mouths of many.
Philip Barron, AlterNet AlterNet: Election 2008. January 30, 2008. Edwards' chief role in the 2008 presidential race had been that of progressive conscience/gadfly to the two frontrunners.
Adam Howard, AlterNet. January 21, 2008. People usually focus on the historic "I Have a Dream" speech, but it's the work King was doing at the end of his life that deserves more attention.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. December 8, 2007. The activist movie star talks with Tavis Smiley about his concern for America's poor and why he thinks John Edwards is the best presidential candidate to address their needs.
Lisa Gray-Garcia, AlterNet. December 4, 2007. As the film "Giuliani Time" reveals, rarely has one man so successfully harnessed the hatred and ignorance of the U.S. public for poor people and people of color.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. November 26, 2007. Media outlets aren't just giving short shrift to organized labor. The avoidance extends to unorganized labor, too.
Gregory Clark, Princeton University Press. November 21, 2007. Is income from immigration the best hope for developing countries? Gregory Clark's book "A Farewell to Alms" explores the wealth, and the poverty, of nations.
Katherine S. Newman, Victor Tan Chen, Beacon Press. September 6, 2007. Hospital patients in low income communities often receive second-rate care -- even when they are insured.
Amaad Rivera, Black Agenda Report. September 5, 2007. War, racism and economic exploitation continue to erode the path for the poor and Black Americans to get merit for their work and obtain the wealth they deserve.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. August 29, 2007. The naked face of poverty that shocked the world two years ago remains just as naked and shameful two years later. And Bush and the Democrats are to blame for it.
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films. August 29, 2007. Tens of thousands of families in the Gulf Coast region are still without homes, and there is something very specific you can do to help.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. August 28, 2007. There is something very specific you can do to help. Sign the petition urging the Senate to pass Chris Dodd's Gulf Coast Recovery Bill of 2007.
Bill Boyarsky, Truthdig. August 17, 2007. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King loudly voiced the connection between the Vietnam War and poverty at home. Is John Edwards the next to take up their work?
Brydie Ragan, YES! Magazine. July 25, 2007. The public generally believes that poor lifestyle choices, faulty genes and infectious agents are the major factors that give rise to illness. Here's the rest of the story.
Don Sloan, Caveat Press. July 11, 2007. In an excerpt from his new book, Practicing Medicine Without a License, Don Sloan, M.D., shows that members of Congress enjoy health coverage with unlimited doctor visits, no deductibles and no co-pays -- all for $35 a month. So what about the rest of us?
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