Social Justice

Antiwar Labor Pains Antiwar Labor Pains

Unions are edging into the peace movement, but they are still minor players.

Nov 21, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper

Alien Nation Alien Nation

When immigrant janitors in Boston went on strike this fall, they attracted some unlikely allies.

Nov 14, 2002 / Jennifer C. Berkshire

When in Rome… When in Rome…

At a V-Day summit, feminist antiviolence activists shared strategy and gnocchi.

Nov 14, 2002 / Feature / Jennifer Baumgardner

A Sex of One’s Own A Sex of One’s Own

Nature versus nurture was always too simple a formulation. Now, we ask: Is it chance, choice, family, culture, hormones or genes that determine who we are and whom we love?

Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Julia M. Klein

Making 34 Million Friends Making 34 Million Friends

The night after the Bush Administration announced its refusal to grant the United Nations Population Fund $34 million dollars, Jane Roberts was so outraged she couldn't sleep.

Nov 12, 2002 / Feature / Emily Biuso

Palestine Activism Spammed Palestine Activism Spammed

Abby Aguirre's October 10, 2002, web-only piece on e-mail harassment of Palestinian activists inspired many letters to the edito

Nov 7, 2002 / Our Readers

Legal Jeopardy Legal Jeopardy

The military needs more lawyers. More accurately, the Defense Department wants military recruiters to recruit law students on campus and through official channels.

Oct 17, 2002 / Kristin Eliasberg

Peace Gets a Chance Peace Gets a Chance

"You look beautiful," shouted more than one speaker to the crowd that gathered in New York's Central Park on Sunday, October 6, to protest George W.

Oct 10, 2002 / Liza Featherstone

Going Down the Road Going Down the Road

Out in the countryside is where you'll find America's true leaders--the gutsy, scrappy, sometimes scruffy and always ingenious grassroots agitators and organizers who go right ...

Oct 10, 2002 / Jim Hightower

A Union on the Line A Union on the Line

With its future at stake, the ILWU will not go down without a fight.

Oct 10, 2002 / Feature / David Bacon

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