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Restoring Dignity: The Employee Free Choice Act

By Peter Laarman

…workers first got real bargaining rights under the Wagner Act. Led by the United Steelworkers, United Auto Workers, United Mine Workers, United Rubber Workers, and United Electrical Workers, the Depression-era labor movement raised wage standards and working conditions for a vast swath of the workforce, but it did much more than that. The CIO—Congress of Industrial Organizations—used its considerable political muscle to back the full range of New…

Pariah or Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel

By Shaul Magid

…s and America’s interests do not always coincide and to then argue how the United States, influenced by the Israel lobby, has acted against those interests in its support of Israel. Whether this is true in practice or not is not the point here. My point is simply to suggest that the United States has often acted as if these interests were identical (and groups like AIPAC lobby the administration to think that way), resulting in behavior which show…

Trump’s Muslim Ban and the History of Stolen Citizenship in America

By Hussein Rashid and Murali Balaji

…tor” amongst haves and have nots. When East Asians started arriving in the United States, we were not sure if they were “white” or not. In 1922 the US Supreme Court ruled in Ozawa v. United States that being white meant being “Caucasian,” not just “not Black,” or “not Native American.” East Asians were promptly stripped of their citizenship, because they were not white enough for this country. South Asians believed that they were protected from th…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…ncil. RD asked Samantha Sokol of the legislative affairs unit at Americans United for Separation of Church and State to compare the 20 models bills of Project Blitz with the bills they track and she found that 71 bills introduced in 2018 (or carried over from the 2017 state legislative session) are based on the model bills or are similar in intent. Of the bills tracked by Americans United [see bill descriptions in side bar]: 23 fall under the Nati…

Disco-Reggae at Abu Ghraib: Music, the Bible and Torture

By Erin Runions

…emerging outrages of Abu Ghraib, or even really commented on it. Yet the deep ironies of this choice of music reveal much about a belief system that keeps the United States from facing torture. America as Both Captor and Captive When US interrogators…

United Methodist Church Votes Against Israel Divestment

By Shalom Goldman

…ay the conference voted against a motion that the church divest from three international firms that have business interests related to Israel’s military rule in the Palestinian territories: Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, and Hewlett Packard. Two thirds of the delegates voted against the motion. On Monday May 1st, the day before the vote on Israeli divestment was expected, Bishop Tutu of South Africa published an op-ed piece in the Tampa Bay Time…

Feared Taliban Leader Killed, But Military Strategy is Not the Answer in Afghanistan

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…stan and expand it to include its six neighboring countries along with the United States, Russia, and NATO. It is important for the United States to respect such initiatives and work with them to encourage progress along regional lines. The key to this five-point framework for US policy in the South Asia region is to demilitarize the US presence while utilizing its influence for regional cooperation and viable self-determination. The politics of t…

Americans United To Launch “Operation Inclusion” After SCOTUS Prayer Decision

By Sarah Posner

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State will announce tomorrow that it is launching “Operation Inclusion,” following efforts by some local government officials to interpret last week’s Supreme Court decision in Greece v. Galloway to permit them to sponsor Christian-only prayer at government meetings. Calling the Greece decision “misguided,” AU’s executive director the Rev. Barry Lynn said it could subject millions of Americans to…

Is the Prochoice Religious Community a Sleeping Giant?

By Frederick Clarkson

…enominations are officially prochoice, including The Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. As is most of organized Judaism. There are also deeply considered prochoice theological traditions within all of major world religious traditions present in the United States, including Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Taken together, they have vast resources, institutional…

Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

…ny progressives have argued since the failure of the Oslo accords that the United States couldn’t have played a positive role in Mideast peacemaking, it is even harder to see how it could do so now. While it is clear from the recent presidential campaign that an Obama administration will be more ideologically inclined in this direction, it is also difficult to imagine the stresses it will have to contend with to reach that point: withdrawing Ameri…