Day June 10, 2005

The Democrats should applaud Dean, not attack him.

When Howard Dean was chosen to head their party, Democrats looked forward to the benefits of his bristling energy and zest for political combat. But at a private meeting Thursday on Capitol Hill, a number of worried Senate Democrats warned…

Journey for Justice, let the time fit the crime

FACTS, Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes, is a group engaged in reforming the grotesque three strikes law, a law under which people are doing life for non-violent sometimes minor crimes. They are helping to build for a major rally…

Blog from Bolivia

Last night Bolivia dodged a bullet but it came no closer whatsoever to addressing the fundamental issues that brought thousands into the streets and shut down the country – the call for re-nationalizing gas and oil; convening a constituent assembly…