All 32 articles by Jacob Wheeler

• 28 Mar 13

• Features

  Building Parent-Teacher Unions

  Inspired by Chicago, teachers unions across the country are looking to parents and communities for support. MORE »

• 22 Dec 11

• Act Locally

  Gay Marriage Tests ‘Minnesota Nice’

  A constitutional amendment proposal comes to the Land of Lakes, a microcosm of the nation. MORE »

• 10 Mar 11

• Working

  Live From Madison!: Updates From Inside/Outside Capitol

  Watch live streaming video from theuptake at livestream.com   Action inside and outside the Madison capitol building... MORE »

• 22 Feb 11

• Working

  Wisconsin Labor Fight: Prelude to a Big Bang?

  Just before aging stars become white dwarf stars, they emit helium flashes and pulsate across the solar system.... MORE »

• 03 May 10

• Features

  The Poisoning of Puerto Rico

  The U.S. Navy left Vieques, but for many, the cancer remains. MORE »

• 18 Dec 09

• The ITT List

  COPENHAGEN VIDEO: Strong Voices Speak for the Weak

  COPENHAGEN—While a two-dimensional view casts the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen as a battle between the United... MORE »

• 13 Dec 09

• The ITT List

  Largest Environmental Demonstration in History

  As many as 100,000 demonstrators marched on Saturday, Dec. 12, from the Christiansborg Parliament in downtown Copenhagen on a six-kilometer... MORE »

• 11 Dec 09

• The ITT List

  Protests in Copenhagen: VIDEOS

  COPENHAGEN—The first day of demonstrations in downtown Copenhagen was a peaceful one. Up to a couple thousand... MORE »

• 11 Dec 09

• The ITT List

  More Naomi Klein interviews on TheUptake.org

  Our independent progressive American media collaboration at the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen this week has worked really... MORE »

• 09 Dec 09

• The ITT List

  Naomi Klein Interviews from COP15

  Author, activist, and The Nation columnist Naomi Klein is here at the COP15 in Copenhagen, interviewing powerful players... MORE »

• 07 Dec 09

• The ITT List

  Creative Collaboration in Copenhagen

  Over the next two weeks I'll be teaming up with other members of the Media Consortium — The Nation,... MORE »

• 07 Dec 09

• The ITT List

  COP15 Demonstration Outside Bella Center

  The COP15 environmental summit is underway in Copenhagen, Denmark. Here's a video of a demonstration outside the Bella... MORE »

• 03 Dec 09

• The ITT List

  Upcoming Coverage from Copenhagen: Stay Tuned

  Stay tuned over the next two weeks for my coverage of the COP15 environmental summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. ... MORE »

• 07 Mar 09

• Act Locally

  El Salvador’s Left Turn?

  Mixed results for 'el frente' in the country's congressional elections. MORE »

• 11 Feb 09

• Act Locally

  GI Skinhead

  An FBI report details white supremacists' recruitment of military personnel. MORE »

• 21 Jan 09

• Views

  An Inauguration Too Big for Words

  The significance of Obama's coronation Tuesday was overwhelming; waving goodbye to Bush, on the other hand, was an emotion much easier to measure. MORE »

• 10 Dec 08

• Features

  El Salvador’s New Left

  Once a guerrilla movement, the FMLN has swapped revolutionary rhetoric for pragmatic politics. MORE »

• 02 Oct 08

• Act Locally

  More U.S. Meddling in El Salvador?

  As El Salvador prepares for elections next year, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador worries the Bush administration might interfere to sway results. MORE »

• 27 Aug 08

• Features

  Was Hillary’s speech a turning point?

  Many Clinton supporters in Denver swallow doubts, support Obama MORE »

• 27 Aug 08

• Features

  Bringing Baghdad to Denver Streets

  DENVER -- "This is not street theater! This is real!" shouted a man wearing a baseball cap into... MORE »

• 26 Aug 08

• The ITT List

  Michelle’s speech on family values

  Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention last night had one purpose — to convince Americas that... MORE »

• 25 Aug 08

• The ITT List

  The Audacity of HOPE signs

  If you get tired of the scripted words coming from inside the Pepsi Center in Denver (or if... MORE »

• 25 Aug 08

• The ITT List

  Climate Change on the campaign trail

  Reporting from The Big Tent in Denver, where progressive bloggers and visionaries from Van Jones to Arianna Huffington... MORE »

• 04 Aug 08

• Act Locally

  Don’t Tase Me, GOP!

  The St. Paul Police Department is arming itself with Tasers. Local activists and media say that the department... MORE »

• 28 Mar 08

• Features

  Caricaturing Danish Muslims

  In early 2006, violence across the Islamic world rocked the quaint Scandinavian country of Denmark after one of its... MORE »

• 17 Mar 08

• Features

  The War That Never Ends

  Iraq Veterans Against the War's 'Winter Soldier' hearings revealed the awful truths of the occupation and the ongoing struggle for those who have returned home. MORE »

• 01 Feb 08

• Features

  Guatemala’s “Crime of the Century”

  Boston-born author Francisco Goldman's American-Jewish and Guatemalan heritage has allowed him to move between those cultures and explore... MORE »

• 14 Dec 07

• Features

  Corporate Potluck

  Dietitians and their company sponsors make strange buffet fellows MORE »

• 13 Nov 07

• Act Locally

  El Salvadors Patriot Act

  Last year the government adopted a "Special Law Against Acts of Terrorism," which gives police and judges leeway to clear the streets of demonstrators and imposes mandatory sentences of 60 years for what was once considered a freedom of expression MORE »

• 05 Nov 07

• Features

  Banana Republic to Baby Republic

  Guatemala could shut down its massive adoption industry MORE »

• 06 Aug 07

• Act Locally

  Civil War by Other Means

  Rigoberta Menchú's presidental bid could turn the page on Guatemala's bloody past MORE »

• 04 Apr 07

• Act Locally

  Resisting the War on Science

  Sound science counts itself as one of the many victims of the Bush administration's assault on reason, and... MORE »