Ferraris For All

In this report economist and journalist Daniel Ben Ami, discusses what he calls “Caveman Equality.” He reminds us that in the Stone Age we were “all pretty equal …and dirt poor”. This caveman logic needs to...

Google Defends Equality: Opposes California's Proposition 8

Internet giant Google has announced that it opposes California's Proposition 8 and hopes California voters will vote NO on Proposition 8. The proposition will eliminate the rights of same-sex couples to marry in...

Brad Pitt Donates $100,000 To Support Gay Marriage

Actor Brad Pitt is putting his money where his politics are, by donating $100,000 to support same-sex marriage in California. "Film star Brad Pitt has donated 100,000 dollars to oppose a California referendum seeking...

Women's Equality Day: Many fought to ensure women's rights

How many of us know the names Victoria Woodhull, Shirley Chisholm, Sandra Day O'Connor and Nancy Pelosi?Well, if you don't - you should learn them and reflect on what they have done for us in the past.Today is...

Layton accuses Harper of being "hostile" toward women

NDP leader Jack Layton accused Prime Minsiter Harper of habouring a "hostility" toward women's issues while campaigning in Gatineau Quebec on Sunday. Citing the Conservative Party's funding cutbacks in gender...

How poor is London?

“Poverty still exists right here in London” states economist Daniel Ben Ami. In this report Daniel Ben Ami tells us more about London’s poverty and what can be done about it. Coining the phrase “equality of...

Blacks Debate Civil Rights Risk in Obama’s Rise: Even if Elected President,...

As a long-time activist (AKA hell-raiser) for equal rights, I, too, worry about this question. As a woman, I know that even Secretary of State Condi Rice's job doesn't totally negate all the lingering sexism...

Trade union death sentence in iran

Several trade unionists in iran were arrested on may day one has been sentenced to death. The koran says that tyrants will burn in hell. For more case details and to sign the petition and perhaps save the life of a decent humane human...

Englishman wins Irish race case

Wow, this is a new one. An Englishman has been awarded 20,000 euros ($30,000) because he says he was taunted by his Irish coworkers while working as a pipe fitter in Ireland. He claims that they called him "the Brit" and would consistently recomend that he be sent in for...

Labour Must Endorse Living Wage Campaign to Win Back Popular Support

Cast your mind back nine years to a time when the Labour party had recently stormed to power and a wave of public optimism still swept the nation. We may have been duped but back then Labour did implement some...

Third Day of Racial Slur on Billboard by I-59 in Alabama.

Near Gadsden, AL... August 1, 2008 Two days after a racial slur was found painted on a billboard along side of Interstate 59 in Alabama, near Gadsden, Alabama, the racial slur remains. The sign is on property at...

Opinion: Heritage Not Hate? Our Heritage IS Hate.

It was in the paper just recently: an all white school in Kentucky that has rebel flags all over the place. And very proud of it. And of course they use the same old argument all of those flag wavers do: Heritage,...

Nelson Mandela concert rocks Hyde Park

Twenty years on from a concert that I watched live on TV, as I did this one last night, I was moved by the sight and sound, not of the latest pop-rock star, but a frail, old man helped on to stage but speaking still,...

Warning over maternity leave threat to women's careers

A commission has claimed that the right for a woman in the UK to take a year for maternity leave may be making employers hesitant to hire or promote women, for fear of losing them for a eyar down the line."THE right to a year's maternity leave could be ruining women's...

A Day In the Life of a White Civil Rights Activist

 I was recently at a get together for Obama supporters, and one of the women there, a white administrative assistant at a local University, said she felt really insulated where she worked, and wondered if there...

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