Nation Topics - Activism | The Nation

1. It is morally reprehensible to take a life, and it is especially reprehensible for the state to do so.

Dolores Huerta flouts the smug conventional wisdom that the 1960s are
behind us. She won't settle down and become an anachronism.

While we wait for labor law reform, here are a few things unions can do.

States grant corporate charters; they should start taking some of them
away.

Ashwin Desai's "We Are the Poors" is one of the best books yet on globalization and resistance.

Support was provided by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the
Dick Goldensohn Fund, and is gratefully acknowledged. Liza Featherstone
is writing a book about Wal-Mart and women workers, to be published by
Basic Books in late 2004.

One big problem with liberal and leftist debate about Al Qaeda or Iraq
is that it rarely seems to have much to do with Al Qaeda or Iraq.

Unions are edging into the peace movement, but they are still minor
players.

When immigrant janitors in Boston went on strike this fall, they
attracted some unlikely allies.

At a V-Day summit, feminist antiviolence activists shared strategy and gnocchi.