Well, over 300,000 immigrants and their supporters in Grant Park, Chicago ain’t too shabby. I like the fact that demonstraters there, regardless of ethnic background, took up the Spanish chant, “si se puede” (yes, it can be done). Some Filipinos and Koreans banging drums joined up, chanting in Spanish. So did African immigrants and a [...]

Three years ago today “President” Bush posed in front of that “Mission Accomplished” banner on that aircraft carrier and, in a moment of staged and phony triumph, declared “major combat operations” over in Iraq. Three years ago. That’s 1,095 days and 2,207 U.S. military dead ago. Read all the sad statistics as well as portions [...]

For most countries, May Day is some form of labor celebration day, orginally associated with socialist and communist parties (the separate U.S. Labor Day in September was instituted to counter the socialist-inspired May Day). International Workers’ Day was first inaugurated on May 1 to commemorate the 1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago and mark the international [...]