After His Loss in Nevada, Edwards Keeps Marching

"He has the advantage of being a white, Southern man in a contest with a white woman and a black man — a fact that he made the heart of his stump speech as he toured the state in the week after the New Hampshire primary."

Looking for some Dam Justice

Yesterday the group that Christine works for organized a protest against the dams the government is building, among other things like mining and water privatization. Basically, we blocked off an entire lane of the Pan American highway at a major intersection,...

Firefighters Celebrate St. Patrick's Day Despite Marching Orders

" March 18, 2007 New York - The St. Patrick's Day Parade stepped off at 11 a.m. Saturday but the firefighters didn't get going on until nearly two hours later. Way ahead of them were members of the Police Department and the Fighting 69th infantry regiment, and waves of...

A conservationist's dream in Africa

"The marching penguins of Antarctica and homing swallows of Capistrano, Calif., are dwarfed by the thunderous herds of wildebeests and zebras that make their twice-yearly migration across the Serengeti Plain in East Africa."

Gunmen attack Shiite pilgrims

"BAGHDAD, Iraq — Gunmen took aim at multitudes of Shiite Muslim worshippers marching through this besieged capital Sunday, killing at least 20 and leaving hundreds injured in a vivid illustration of the sectarian violence driving Iraq toward open civil war. Panicked...