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By David Bacon
There’s no question that labor pulled out all the stops to defeat George Bush. Over 2000 members of the country’s largest union, the Service Employees (SEIU), left their jobs to go campaign in battleground states, and the organization budgeted $65 million for the campaign. The AFL-CIO itself fielded 5000 fulltime staffers and 225,000 volunteers.
That made Bush’s victory a hard one to swallow. For many of the most progressive leaders of US labor, however, it was more (…)

November 10, 2004
Are the provisional ballots in Ohio being thrown out? A new rule for counting provisional ballots in Cuyahoga County, Ohio was implemented on Tuesday, November 9 at approximately 2:30 in the afternoon, according to election observer Victoria Lovegren.
The new ruling in Cuyahoga County mandates that provisional ballots in yellow packets must be “Rejected” if there is no “date of birth” on the packet. The Free Press obtained copies of the original “Provisional (…)

“Few of us will have the will to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.” ROBERT F. KENNEDY
“I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.” MALCOLM X
By Kevin Powell
I have sat in my Brooklyn, New York apartment, quietly, for several days now, too perplexed to (…)

by Howard Zinn
From an excerpt of Paul Rogat Loeb’s book "The Impossible Will Take a Little While":
In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved and seemingly happy? I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any (…)

Bravo Zulu Bywyd 11-11-2004
An open letter to the world community:
" I say we had better look our nation searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease." —Walt Whitman, "Democratic Vistas"
Now we have come the End of the colonial experiment known as the "United States of America." It has ended as the founders had warned it would likely end, with concentration of wealth, corruption, and despotism despoiling its democratic foundations. Unfortunately, it (…)

Yasser Arafat, who triumphantly forced his people’s plight into the world spotlight but failed to achieve his lifelong quest for Palestinian statehood, died Thursday at age 75.
He was, to the end, a man of many mysteries and paradoxes - terrorist, statesman, autocrat and peacemaker.
Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat confirmed to The Associated Press that Arafat had died. The Palestinian leader spent his final days in a coma at a French military hospital outside Paris.
Tayeb (…)

Valid Outrage
by Daniel Patrick Welch
Bush’s Sword of Damocles is poised above the people and city of Fallujah, ready to wreak the pent-up wrath his addled brain thinks his tainted election victory permits. This is the bizarre world-in-a-bubble in which most Americans reside. With a chorus of Onward, Christian Soldiers and a vapid, cheerleading press, the crusade continues unabated, as the world’s revulsion continues to grow.
True, Americans do have elections, and candidates often take (…)

Dear Politicasso ,
We know many of you are angry and frustrated about the election last Tuesday, and are deeply concerned about the stories appearing online and in the news media about problems with the voting process in states like Ohio. As the New York Times said, "the mechanics of our democracy remained badly flawed ... the election system was far from what voters are entitled to." And, it sure appears that many Americans, once again, have lost confidence in our nation’s election (…)

Analysis of the Nation’s Senate races yield mores anomalies in favor of the Republicans. Looking at Florida’s election results, I noticed the Senate race was very close, with the Democrat Betty Castor losing in a nail-biter 49-48%, only 78,221 votes short.
Then I noticed that the total number of votes for Senate was quite a bit less than in the presidential race. 253,105 people voted for president but failed to cast a ballot for senator. Interesting.... so I analyzed all of the Senate (…)

"Bush can run, but he cannot hide from the Constitution" "The election does not pardon the President for past, or future "high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
Impeachment is not a partisan political issue. The House of Representatives, possessed of the "sole power of impeachment," is required to consider a bill of impeachment on the facts even if every Member were of the same party, or political persuasion, as the President. The seven specific provisions of the Constitution setting forth the (…)