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Protest Music and People Movements: The Tradition Continues

Peter Dreier and Dick Flacks Common Dreams
Despite occasional media laments that "protest music is dead," a new generation of performers has been revitalizing music's links to movements, often self-consciously modeled on the folk singers of the past.

Latin American Indigenous Women Hold NYC Tribunal

Hajer Naili, WeNews correspondent Women's eNews
To puncture official indifference, Latin American indigenous women are staging a tribunal on the sidelines of a U.N. permanent forum "to push back the invisibility" about what they suffer. "The justice system really doesn't work for us," says one.

Students Now Indentured to the Banksters

The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program Truthout
America's student loan debt crisis is a massive, devastating, trillion dollar morally criminal conspiracy, committed by Wall Street banksters, libertarian billionaires and Reaganomics devotees.

The Problems with Work

Kathi Weeks New Labor Forum
We need to critically evaluate the concept of waged work. Due to problems associated with underwork, overwork, and non-work, the system of waged labor fails us in many ways.