Several US cities and states voted to increase the minimum wage.

Republican plans to trash the environment in the US.

Censored and monitored Facebook has wiped out independent opposition media projects, including SchNEWS and, to a large extent, Indymedia.

US citizens: call on Obama to make the FCC support real network neutrality.

A whistleblower from the UK's privatized "work program" tells that her job was to find excuses to push people into working, by fining them, and never mind their illnesses and disabilities.

One of her clients, mentally ill and homeless, had not eaten in five days. This was probably due to being fined on one of the many pretexts that the UK has come up with to punish the helpless for being helpless.