As attention shifts from Iraq to Afghanistan, we’ll look at how Iraqi stability may be unraveling. And, in a victory against mountaintop removal in Appalachia, we’ll hear how Blair mountain was recently saved. Plus, as the housing market continues to crash nationally, a local group is demanding a Mixed-income housing ordinance to fight the housing crisis in Los Angeles. …

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The month of March marked an anniversary that barely went noticed. Forty years ago in March, an action on the campus of UC Berkeley called “Third World Strike,” led to the creation of ethnic studies programs to college campuses that many of us take for granted today. Four ethnic student groups and their allies led a campaign that lasted near two months to demand …

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NY Assembly Expels Socialists

Back in the day on April 1st, 1920, the New York State Assembly voted by an overwhelming margin to expel five socialist members from its legislative body. Finding the democratic will of the people to be an “April Fools Joke,” the action taken against them was not enough for one Assemblyman, …

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“The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem — whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution.” –- Frederick Douglass …