The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Comics
After Christmas Sale
Eric Garcia

Viewpoint
Gold Diggers and Indians
Republicans want to have their way with Wisconsin's buried gold, but the Anishinaabe aren't having it.
Joel Bleifuss

Feature
The Walmart Revolt
The New Year promises new strategies for old labor.
David Moberg

Labor
In the Coal Fields, A Novel Way to Get Rid Of Pensions Is Born
Mike Elk

Feature
Protest Tactics in a Warming World
What will it take to push back climate change?
Eric Moll
Video
Anti-Eviction Caroling in Chicago
Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature
Supermax Showdown
AFSCME wants Illinois' Tamms Correctional Center to stay open. Activists want it closed.
Rebecca Burns
The Crackpot Plan to Analyze Adam Lanza’s DNA
Lindsay Beyerstein

Alt Press Picks of the Week: The Tangible Effects of Climate Change
Alternative Press Center

Feature
The 12 Biggest Labor Stories of 2012 (PHOTOS)
Labor certainly made news in 2012. But was it a banner year or a bruising one?
Anthony Mangini

Feature
Why Israel’s Attack on Gaza Was Illegal
A response to Bianca Ambrosio's 'Open Letter to Noam Chomsky'
Noam Chomsky

Viewpoint
Who’s Afraid of Homophobia?
The Associated Press's decision to favor 'anti-gay' over 'homophobic' isn't as bad as some say.
Achy Obejas

Feature
The Death Blow for British Coal
New revelations have surfaced about police brutality in Thatcher's 1984 battle with miners.
Kari Lydersen

Feature
A Child’s Christmas in Dalat
The author remembers his first Christmas, in 1969 Vietnam.
Andrew Lam

Culture
Scroungers and Strivers
We are encouraged to sneer at poverty and hardship.
Jane Miller

Feature
An Open Letter to Professor Noam Chomsky
What 'Gaza Under Assault' got wrong.
Bianca Ambrosio

Feature
The GOP’s 1 Trillion Dollar Lie
How a right-wing whopper about the cost of welfare was born.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet

Feature
Sore Losers
How bitter Republicans and their backers rammed through a union-destroying bill in Michigan.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
