Wellstone Action! Wellstone Action!
The loss of Senator Paul Wellstone still really hurts. Fortunately, the Wellstone Action Network is working in his name, bringing together thousands of people from across the Uni...
Feb 20, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Trying to Change the Channel Trying to Change the Channel
Congress is starting high-profile hearings today to debate the crisis in American media. The topic: Media concentration? No. Rather, indecency. Spurred on by Janet and Justin's ...
Feb 11, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Bush’s Bogus Guestworker Program Bush’s Bogus Guestworker Program
President Bush recently invited Latino immigration activists and the press to the White House to hear him unveil an important policy initiative. The President said that US immigr...
Feb 1, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Thirty-One Years of Freedom Thirty-One Years of Freedom
On the 31th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the number of US abortion providers has fallen to its lowest level in three decades, a trend many physicians ascribe to a hostile politica...
Jan 22, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
The Dream and Beyond The Dream and Beyond
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously came out against the Vietnam War before he was assassinated in April 1968. And, according to David Garrow, King's Pulitzer Prize-winning b...
Jan 16, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
New Year’s Resources New Year’s Resources
Though the world of activism never sleeps with literally scores of brave grassroots organizing being done 24/7 across America today ActNow will be off until January 12. Please ta...
Jan 2, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
For the Political Gift-Giver For the Political Gift-Giver
Thirteen beautiful women versus one hideous president. Babes Against Bush is taking protest politics in an unlikely direction. A new group from southeastern Michigan, B.A.B. is ...
Dec 21, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
National Conf. on Organized Resistance National Conf. on Organized Resistance
The seventh annual National Conference on Organized Resistance--"a space for radical discourse"--is happening this January 24 and 25th on the campus of American University in Was...
Dec 18, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Debating Media Ownership–Dec. 15 Debating Media Ownership–Dec. 15
Capitol Hill observers say that media ownership has been the second most discussed issue by constituents in 2003, trailing only the war on Iraq. This is a remarkable turnaround f...
Dec 7, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Stop the NRA Stop the NRA
The National Rifle Association recently targeted hundreds of organizations and individuals for having the temerity to have "lent their names and notoriety" to the "anti-gun cause...
Nov 25, 2003 / Peter Rothberg