A potential showdown between organized labor and Wall Street looms over the world of freight trains: An influential railroad workers group is urging fellow union members to reject a tentative labor agreement that has prevented an industry-wide strike, and to fight for public ownership of railroads. Negotiations are tense, and the unions are telling members that every vote counts.
The school system in the U.S. has emerged as a prominent front in the right’s never-ending culture war, and Canada’s system may be next.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the school system in the United States has increasingly been targeted by the political right in its never-ending culture war.
LAS VEGAS—For the first time in slightly more than 100 years Railroad Workers United, is demanding public ownership of railroad infrastructure in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Then, railroads “would be operated in the public interest,” it says.
Unlike the major media in the U.S. which tries to divorce the threat to democracy from the fight for economic justice, their call for nationalization, clearly a demand for economic democracy, is an aspect of democracy that papers like the New York Times don’t touch with a ten-foot pole.
Mr Assange has been held in London’s Belmarsh Prison since being taken from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London three years ago
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been selected as one of three finalists for a prestigious EU human rights award.
The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is awarded each year by the European Union Parliament to an individual or group who has dedicated their lives to the defence of human rights.
Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski famously describedUkraine as a “geopolitical pivot” of Eurasia, central to both US and Russian power. Since Russia views its vital security interests to be at stake in the current conflict, the war in Ukraine is rapidly escalating to a nuclear showdown. It’s urgent for both the US and Russia to exercise restraint before disaster hits.
Democracy vouchers can, in the short term, make campaigns fair, finally giving everyday people, and especially low-income people, a voice in our democracy.
Would our democracy work better if all of us were campaign donors?
That’s the proposition posed by democracy vouchers, an idea with Seattle origins that has reached the Golden State.
