Tweet http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/08-1 Multinational corporations have built their businesses on the backs of American taxpayers. They’ve depended on government research, national defense, the legal and educational systems, and our infrastructure. Yet they’ve turned around and mocked us with declining tax payments. They’ve cut workers. They’ve refused to invest their massive profits in job-producing research and development.…
Right now many of our kids are being raised by Lil Wayne, Zombies and Minecraft. As a mom with a 12 year old son who would play Minecraft 24/7 if I let him (I limit him to 30 minutes), I’d love to see that change. Not every child has the advantage of a working-from- or…
Tweet Photo Credits: Mark Pernice http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/sundown-in-america.html?pagewan… The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s 500 indexes reached record highs on Thursday, having completely erased the losses since the stock market’s last peak, in 2007. But instead of cheering, we should be very afraid. read more Read the full post
© Jamie Myers / Pixoto A fun-filled event May 4th! To celebrate June as Leave No Child Inside month, the second annual Barrington Area Kid Fest—a fun-filled event combining the 12th annual Community Kite Fly and 3rd annual Family Nature Fest—will be Saturday, May 4, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Citizens Park, 511 Lake…
Tweet http://towardfreedom.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3190:… Tunis, Tunisia – Tens of thousands of people marched through downtown Tunis on Tuesday in a spirited march celebrating the beginning the 13th World Social Forum – the first to be held in an Arab country. The majority of marchers were from Tunisia and neighboring nations, but there was substantial representation from Europe,…
Tweet http://www.alternet.org/economy/five-ugly-extremes-inequality-america-contrasts-… The first step is to learn the facts, and then to get angry and to ask ourselves, as progressives and caring human beings, what we can do about the relentless transfer of wealth to a small group of well-positioned Americans. Read the full post
Tweet http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/24 Community and pro-democracy activists in Detroit have no intention of rolling over and playing dead for Kevyn Orr, the city’s new ‘emergency manager’ appointed by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, who will begin his contract to run the city as a one-person government on Monday. Called a “bloodless coup” by some, the appointment of…
Tweet Photo Credits: Bhutan vows to be first 100% organic country http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/21-3 The only way we can achieve a “thriving global society” and mitigate the combined effects of environmental destruction and global poverty, the authors write in Policy: Sustainable Development Goals for People and Planet, is for international policymakers to adopt new targets that combine…
It’s time to put a price on carbon and make the polluters stop the carbon destruction. We’re paying the cost through taxes, medical bills and insurance rates (to name just a few). Your voice counts! Take the pledge: I pledge my name in support of a better tomorrow, one powered by clean energy. I demand…
Tweet Photo Credits: Kucinich – Gage Skidmore http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/15193-a-decade-after-waging-a-war-based-on-lie… In Stanley Kubrick’s classic film, “2001 A Space Odyssey,” just after the majestic opening of Richard Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra, a soaring sun, splitting the darkness, seemingly heralds the new Genesis, and next a man-ape uses a femur bone to dispatch the leader of another group in…