Two weeks after a small band of protesters set up camp in New York’s Liberty Plaza Park, deep in the heart of the financial district, our numbers have expanded to staggering numbers. This is true...
In Hong Kong, Directly-subsidized schools (DSS) have coped with public image damage lately. The Audit Office of the government issued a report blasting the financial mismanagement of some DSS...
Route Irish In “Route Irish” Ken Loach turns his critical eye to the privatisation of the war in Iraq and the devastating legacy these multi million companies leave behind in that country and...
In a recent interview with Anderson Cooper, Eminem posed an interesting question: Why does he seem to be the focus of intense media scrutiny when it comes to his homophobic and sexist lyrics?...
Jon Stewart has spent quite a bit of time making fun of Rick Sanchez, and this week, Sanchez appeared on the satellite radio show "Stand Up! With Pete Dominick" and fired back. Sanchez called Stewart...
I am volunteering for an environmental justice organization in a large northern city. This group works on environmental health issues with the city’s poor, mostly African-Americans and Puerto...
Just a note before I start: this is the 1000th post on Global Comment! To celebrate, why not become a subscriber and help us keep bringing you thought-provoking content? The real objective of...
"It is a sacred duty for me, as a survivor, to protest against the persecution, the oppression and the imprisonment of so many people in Gaza, including more than 800,000 children," -Reuven...
I am a former migrant worker. I worked the blueberry fields as a kid, as did most kids in my community. I was a lucky worker--I never had to migrate from state to state to follow work (I just went...
As a Pakistani-American who was raised Muslim, I've been abstaining from weighing in on the unrestrained anti-Muslim crusade that has recently metastasized to untenable proportions worldwide, partly...
