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Darrel Turner Announces Candidacy for Alabama Senate Against Republican Gerald Dial 25 Aug 2013 | 09:28 am
Watch some video excerpts – By Glynn Wilson – HEFLIN, Ala. — Darrell Turner, a Democrat from Heflin, announced his candidacy in 2014 for the state Senate Saturday night at a fund raiser for the Alabam...
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Hold’s Town Hall Meeting in Birmingham 24 Aug 2013 | 10:32 am
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — While Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker was speaking to Republicans in Montgomery Friday night, pro-labor and progressive radio talk show host Ed Schult...
Video Captures Louisiana Sinkhole Swallowing a Grove of Cypress Trees 23 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm
Can You Say Rising Seas Due to Global Warming? Wetlands Losses Due to Oil and Gas Drilling?For 30 years I have been reading about and at times writing about the mounting losses of Louisiana wetlands a...
Protect Public Lands from Reckless Fracking 23 Aug 2013 | 02:22 am
Coming Clean – By Michael Brune - One of the worst consequences of President Obama’s reckless “all of the above” energy policy is the blight of oil and gas rigs that has spread across our public lands...
Steelworkers Ratify New Four-Year Contract with Goodyear 23 Aug 2013 | 02:07 am
Agreement Improves Wages, Enhances Job and Retirement SecurityPITTSBURGH, Pa. – The United Steelworkers announced Thursday that union members have ratified a new, four-year collective bargaining agree...
Chomsky Says U.S. Behaves Nothing Like a Democracy 21 Aug 2013 | 02:34 am
But You'll Never Hear About It From the Mainstream MediaThe following is a transcript of a recent speech delivered Noam Chomsky in Bonn, Germany, at DW Global Media Forum. You can read more speeches b...
Citizens Denied Audience Before Alabama Environmental Management Commission 21 Aug 2013 | 02:16 am
Glynn Wilson / Southwings – A close view of the growing coal ash mountain in Perry County, Alabama (click on image for more photos and related coverage) – Citizens from Uniontown Alabama were denied p...
Creating a Culture of Unionism in the South is Essential for Democracy 20 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm
By Douglas Williams and Cato Uticensis – The South Lawn – One of the difficulties of organizing in the South is that the struggles here frequently occur under a veil of invisibility due to the lack of...
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz to Broadcast Live from Birmingham August 23 17 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm
MSNBC talk show host Ed Schultz will hold a radio town hall meeting at the Sheraton in downtown Birmingham on Friday, August 23, starting at 7 p.m. This radio town hall, which will be broadcast on Sir...
Little-Known Pipeline Nearly as Big as Keystone Could Win Race to Gulf 17 Aug 2013 | 06:38 pm
By Lisa Song – InsideClimate News – A little-known pipeline could win the race to ship heavy Canadian crude oil from the Midwest to the U.S. Gulf Coast if it comes online as planned in 2015. Called th...
