Costa Rica Quits SOA Costa Rica Quits SOA
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias announced May 16 that his country will stop sending police to train at the US Army Ft. Benning facility, citing its history of involvement in mil...
May 17, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Iraq Action Camp Iraq Action Camp
US troops have questioned hundreds of people and detained 11 in the search for three American soldiers feared captured by al-Qaeda during a deadly weekend ambush south of Baghdad,...
May 15, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
What’s Your Plan? What’s Your Plan?
As the almost twenty presidential hopefuls from both major parties careen around the country looking for cash and votes, a disclipined group of students has been politely bird-dog...
May 7, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Habeas Corpus is Missing Habeas Corpus is Missing
For the past seven years, George Bush has repeatedly violated the Constitution. Even worse, Congress has knowingly let it happen. There's been the legalization of torture, warra...
May 3, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Shut It Down Shut It Down
This morning hundreds of human rights advocates nationwide began a three day fast to bring attention to the victims of the violence of the School of the Americas and to put pressu...
Apr 25, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
The Kids are Alright (Part 2) The Kids are Alright (Part 2)
Who says students are apathetic and narcissistic? At Stanford University, twelve student members of the Stanford Labor Action Coalition have been staging a hunger strike for the...
Apr 19, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Stamp Out the Rate Hikes Stamp Out the Rate Hikes
America's founders understood the First Amendment would be worth little without a postal system that encouraged broad public participation in America's "marketplace of ideas." Tho...
Apr 18, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
The Green Festival The Green Festival
Step It Up! takes place tomorrow, Saturday. Check out an event near you. For the first time, the largest and most authentic sustainability event in the world is coming to Chic...
Apr 12, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Step It Up Step It Up
A new global warming report issued on April 5 by the United Nations paints a near-apocalyptic vision of Earth's future: hundreds of millions of people short of water, extreme food...
Apr 9, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go? Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go?
I try to never write off press releases but I got a fax that shocked me this morning. A new report from the National Priorities Project shows that almost 40 cents of every tax dol...
Apr 6, 2007 / Peter Rothberg