A unique school is gone from the map of University City. Parents and friends say the University City New School had achieved the diverse community and the exceptional, experiential curriculum it sought to build.
Why, then, has the neighborhood let the school slip off the map?

Student-teacher-poet June Jordan’s work has powerfully marked the pages of the canon, the towers of the University of California at Berkeley, the walls of grade school classrooms in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City.

He dared to ask questions. Sorry. He was fired. Now he tells the whole world and exposes the myth of helping poor countries.

Cincinnati Ya Basta! Collective calls for a Yellow Overalls Formation for June 2nd.

New York—On April 7, approximately 5,000 people gathered in New York City to demand the right of Palestinians to return to their homeland and to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre of hundreds of Palestinian civilians by the Irgun, a terrorist group led by future Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin . Protesters from many cities in the U.S. and Canada demanded the right of return for the nearly 5 million Palestinian refugees living in exile and protested Israeli forces’ brutal siege of Palestinian villages all over the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

On April 29, 2001, George W. Bush completed his first 100 days in office as President of the United States - the period historically used as a benchmark to measure progress and determine the prevailing political direction of the new government. While Bush campaigned under the slogan "compassionate conservatism," almost all major policy initiatives put forth since his inauguration in January are far more conservative than compassionate. Most of the legislative and policy proposals fall under one of five general categories: environmental issues, women’s rights, tax-cut legislation, missile defense, and faith-based initiatives.

While politicians struggle to find solutions to our city’s problems, Buddhist nun Ani-La Gen Kelsang Norden’s plan for urban blight and street violence is to create more peaceful minds, one Philadelphian at a time, one guided meditation at a time.

Longtime Philadelphia activist George Lakey made headlines in the Canadian press after immigration officials detained him for four hours at the Ottawa Airport on Friday, March 30.

On Saturday April 21, around 11 PM Pacific Standard Time, word began to fly across the country that the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) had been shut down by the FBI in an incident related to the Quebec FTAA protests.

Over the weekend of June 29th-July 1st, 2001, in Philadelphia, PA., a National Pro-Democracy Convention will be held. We urge you to make plans to attend!