News & Current Events
Vancity announced today that it has divested Enbridge stock from its Socially Responsible Investment funds. The BC credit union is the first financial institution to quit
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August 27, 2012 // 0 Comments
Howard Zinn would have turned 90 this Friday if his seemingly boundless energy and youthfulness had not been cut short in January
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August 24, 2012 // 0 Comments
Today, Kris Kobach, Roy Beck, head of the anti-immigrant group NumbersUSA, and ICE union leader Chris Crane announced that together they have filed a lawsuit against the
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August 24, 2012 // 0 Comments
I am constantly asked the question, Why do I write with so much emotion? As a historian I should be more restrained; objective while searching for the truth. When the first
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August 24, 2012 // 0 Comments
*Mexikaresitance.com Note: Excellent analysis and discussion of the FARCE that is “alternative medicine.” Expert doctors Steven Novella, Harriet Hall, David
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August 24, 2012 // 0 Comments
*Mexikaresistance.com Note: The RNC clearly views Mazewaltin (Indigenous people) as the enemy. WASHINGTON – Pat Rogers, a Republican National Committee (RNC) leader, is
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August 24, 2012 // 2 Comments
Few Americans are surprised to hear that 9/11 shifted our domestic terrorism focus from neo-Nazis and white supremacists to Muslims in America. What may come as a surprise,
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August 24, 2012 // 0 Comments
Following in the footsteps of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Arizona’s SB1070, a federal appeals court judge for the Eleventh Circuit yesterday struck down most of
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August 23, 2012 // 0 Comments
In the last week, Brazil’s Federal District Court of the 1st Region (Regional Federal Tribunal TRF1) voted to annul Legislative Decree 788 of 2005, which permitted the
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August 22, 2012 // 0 Comments
The UCLA Labor Center recently publicized a new, affordable, educational initiative that allows undocumented students to receive college credit. Sounds great, right? After
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August 22, 2012 // 1 Comment