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School Testing: Good for Textbook Publishers, Bad for Students
This is the year US schools went test-crazy.By January, every state but one had adopted standards for public school students in at least one subject and 41 states had adopted tests to measure student...
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Books, Not Bombs: Students Protest A War On Education
A new protest movement is happening in California as bombs fall over Iraq. Young people, who complain that their future outlook is shrinking to military service after high school, are taking to the...
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U.S. Arrests Iraqi Union Leaders
U.S. occupation forces in Iraq escalated their efforts to paralyze Iraq's new labor unions with a series of arrests this weekend.On Dec. 6, according to a union spokesperson interviewed by phone, a...
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A Union of Labor
Once the U.S. occupation of Iraq began over a year ago, Iraqi workers lost no time in reorganizing their countrys labor movement. Labor activity spread from Baghdad to the Kurdish north, with the...
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Iraqi Labor Leader: We Will Defend Our Oil
LONDON -- As U.S. and British forces entered Baghdad on April 9, 2003, and the Saddam Hussein regime crumbled, those who had been driven underground by Hussein's rule began to breathe again. From...
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What’s Really Behind the ‘Student Bill of Rights’?
An older generation of teachers may remember the days of loyalty oaths and red scares. During the McCarthyite early 1950s, educators accused of being Communists or harboring left-wing views were...
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Baja: The Free-Trade State
Tijuana's oldest maquiladora closed last year.It didn't fall victim to the dreaded Chinese competition, confounding a wave of near-hysterical alarms in south-of-the-border newspapers, warning that the...
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Meatpacking Laborers Victimized
This article is reprinted from the American Prospect.In 1947, Woody Guthrie wrote a song about the crash of a plane carrying Mexican immigrant farm workers back to the border. In haunting lyrics he...
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Immigration and the Right to Stay Home
Editor's Note:This June in Juxtlahuaca, Mexico -- in the heart of Oaxaca's Mixteca region -- dozens of farmers left their fields, and women weavers their looms, to declare their right to stay home....
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The Politics Driving Mississippi's ICE Raid
LAUREL, Miss. -- On August 25, immigration agents swooped down on Howard Industries, a Mississippi electrical equipment factory, taking 481 workers to a privately-run detention center in Jena,...
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Immigration: Stop the Raids in the First 100 Days
The first of the 388 workers arrested in the immigration raid on the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, were deported last week, having spent five months in federal prison. Their...
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Silence on Immigration
The first of the 388 workers arrested in the immigration raid on the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, were deported in mid-October, having spent five months in federal prison....
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There Needs to Be Change Immigrants and Labor Can Believe In
Since 2001 the Bush administration has deported more than a million people -- including 349,041 individuals in the fiscal year ending just prior to the election. It has resurrected the discredited...
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Chicago Workers Beat Back the Bankers' Attempt to Hold on to Bailout Cash
When the day finally comes that Raul Flores loses his job, he will face a bitter search for another one. "I've got a family to support, so I've got to do whatever it takes," he says. "It's going to be...
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Black/Brown Coalition Fueled Big Union Win
When workers at Smithfield Foods' North Carolina packing house voted in the union on Dec. 11, 2008 the longest, most bitter anti-union campaign in modern labor history went down to defeat. Sixteen...
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Why Tens of Thousands of Migrant Workers Will Fill the Streets on May Day
In a little over a month, hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people will fill the streets in city after city, town after town, across the US. This year these May Day marches of immigrant...
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We Made Them Rich and They Called Us Criminals
Vernon, California - The production lines at Overhill Farms move very quickly. Every day, for 18 years, Bohemia Agustiano stood in front of the "banda" for eight or nine hours, putting pieces of...
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The Brutal Dark Side of Obama's "Softer" Immigration Enforcement
Ana Contreras would have been a competitor for the national tai kwon do championship team this year. She's 14. For six years she's gone to practice instead of birthday parties, giving up the...
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Activists Pan Dems' Approach; Say Another Immigration Policy Is Possible
Editor's note: Below, David Bacon reports that some activists at the U.S. Social Forum were sharply critical of the approach Obama endorsed in his recent immigration address. You can also read Marcelo...
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Life's the Same in a Labor Camp With or Without Papers
On a ranch north of the Bay Area, several dozen men live in a labor camp. When there's work they pick apples and grapes or prune trees and vines. This year, however, the ranch has had much less work,...
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