Language of the Heart Language of the Heart
We need to learn a new language of peace and love that we can speak, even shout, to our leaders who only understand the language of greed and murder.
Dec 29, 2005 / Cindy Sheehan
A Fight for the Future A Fight for the Future
New York City transit workers, now back on the job after a two-day strike, are fighting for the rights of future workers and against the lie that abstract, neutral economic necessi...
Dec 22, 2005 / Feature / Joshua Freeman
Bitter Winter at NYU Bitter Winter at NYU
Striking graduate teaching assistants and NYU administrators are hunkered down for a protracted fight, as President John Sexton has threatened strikers with loss of their teaching ...
Dec 21, 2005 / Scott Sherman
Dances With Ghosts Dances With Ghosts
As the House of Representatives voted to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich decried the back-door methods and contemplated t...
Dec 19, 2005 / Feature / Dennis Kucinich
Shoot the Moon Shoot the Moon
How realistic is it to stop the Bush Administration from pursuing its war agenda? Former prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega offers some hard-core advice about how to challenge the sta...
Dec 19, 2005 / Feature / Elizabeth de la Vega
The Wonder and Horror of 2005 The Wonder and Horror of 2005
In the gloom of post-election 2004 few people, if any, could have anticipated the wild surprises of 2005. Focusing on three unforeseen developments of the past year, a meditation o...
Dec 15, 2005 / Feature / Rebecca Solnit
New Orleans Blues New Orleans Blues
If New Orleans is to reclaim its greatness, the scope of the solution must match the scope of the problem. The city could become the nation's classroom by re-engineering levees, re...
Dec 15, 2005 / The Editors
Amid Hostage Vigils, Peace Work Endures Amid Hostage Vigils, Peace Work Endures
The remaining members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Baghdad say their work will go on regardless of what happens to their four colleagues still held hostage. CPT workers wer...
Dec 10, 2005 / Feature / David Enders
The Outsider The Outsider
Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, died 25 years ago this month. Today Catholic Workers are in Cuba, keeping vigil outside the US Naval Prison at Guantanamo Bay ...
Dec 10, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Colman McCarthy
Pilgrimage to Guantánamo Pilgrimage to Guantánamo
Twenty-five members of the Catholic Worker movement are walking across Cuba to the US Naval prison at Guantánamo Bay in hopes of meeting with more than 500 detainees, the fi...