Dear In These Times reader,
In These Times is very excited to announce the launch of "Working In These Times," the magazine's new wing dedicated to labor and workers' rights issues. The website, which went live earlier this week, can be found at www.WorkingInTheseTimes.com.
Our goal is to fill the growing gap in labor journalism created by the decline of newspapers. Many journalists familiar to In These Times readers will be contributing to the site, including David Moberg, Kari Lydersen, Michelle Chen and Art Levine. Union officials and activists from around the country will also be contributing occasionally.
Coverage will always be concerned with the struggles of workers — whether unionized or not — to secure better jobs and more just workplaces. Stories covered this week include efforts in New York state to pass a "Domestic Workers Rights Bill"; the resilience of economic cooperatives during the recession; and America's virtually invisible army of unemployed.
Again, be sure to visit WorkingInTheseTimes.com. We're pleased to expand our longstanding commitment to covering the labor movement.
NEWS and FEATURES
Iran on the Brink: Slavoj Zizek offers a warning to the Persian cat: Don’t look down!
Granny Get Your Gun: Is America on the verge of a geriatric crime wave?
Sewer Socialism Down the Drain?: Activists in Milwaukee fight to keep their city’s water system in public hands.
Queer Prehistory: The gay-rights movement did not begin with the Stonewall riots in 1969.
Why David Sometimes Wins: Barack Obama is indebted to Cesar Chavez’s trailblazing community organizing strategies.
COMMENTARY
Zicam: Homeopathy Fails the Sniff Test: Terry Allen on the FDA's recent clampdown on one homeopathic "remedy."
What the NAACP Means to Me: Rinku Sen, publisher of ColorLines magazine, reflects on race relations in America as the NAACP celebrates its 100th birthday.
Jeremy Gantz, Web editor