Media Meltdown Obscures FCC Debate Media Meltdown Obscures FCC Debate
As if there was need for more evidence that major media is neglecting to cover Federal Communications Commission deliberations on whether to fundamentally alter media ownership ru...
Feb 28, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Exit Phil Donahue Exit Phil Donahue
The day before MSNBC announced that it was pulling the plug on Phil Donahue's nightly show, the man who pretty much invented talk TV was interviewing actress and author Rosie O'D...
Feb 26, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Echoing Wellstone on War, Activism Echoing Wellstone on War, Activism
When hundreds of labor, academic and community activists gathered in a City University of New York's graduate school auditorium this week to honor the memory of Paul and Sheila We...
Feb 26, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Join the Feb. 26 ‘March’ on Washington Join the Feb. 26 ‘March’ on Washington
As with marching, the objective is to bring an antiwar message to the attention of political leaders in Washington. But instead of taking to the streets, activists tomorrow will ...
Feb 25, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Rebel Music Rebel Music
Every movement needs its culture, and the still-emerging antiwar movement is proving clever and creative on this front. Dissident artwork, literature, street theatre, poetry, pai...
Feb 22, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Takin’ it to the Streets–UPDATED Takin’ it to the Streets–UPDATED
In an unprecedented show of international solidarity, millions of people around the world turned out today to protest the Bush Administration's plans to invade Iraq. It was a d...
Feb 16, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
March for Peace on February 15 March for Peace on February 15
This Saturday should see the largest US and international protests yet against the Bush Administration's plans to invade Iraq. Major actions are planned nationwide and abroad in m...
Feb 16, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
‘The Whole World Is Against This War’ ‘The Whole World Is Against This War’
"The whole world is against this war. Only one person wants it," declared South African teenager Bilqees Gamieldien as she joined a Cape Town antiwar demonstration on a weekend wh...
Feb 14, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Dems Move to Block Estrada Dems Move to Block Estrada
Setting up what could be the boldest challenge yet to the Bush administration's drive to pack the nation's courts with conservative judicial activists, Senate Democrats have signa...
Feb 12, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Aussies Aboard? Not Exactly Aussies Aboard? Not Exactly
In the White House's latest attempt to suggest that the United States has garnered significant international support for an at´tack on Iraq, President Bush met Monday with Austra...
Feb 10, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols