Sophie Richardson of Human Rights Watch helps us go behind Google's ultimatum to China following a wave of cyber attacks on users' accounts: no more censoring of search results. What will this mean for the...
How much does a Big Mac cost? How about $200? That’s the true cost of a burger, according to a new book about how our market-driven society sets prices that have nothing to with the real value of things. Tune in for a...
China's economic practices in Africa has provoked much debate. Some see it as a positive development in comparison to the problematic result of Western countries' involvement in the region. Others criticize...
What is China doing to respond to the global financial crisis? It’s an interesting question in itself, but asking it can also help us understand the response of our own U.S. government. A number of commentators have...
Tomorrow, the U.S. Senate will hold confirmation hearings for Gary Locke, who has been nominated by President Obama to be Secretary of Commerce. If confirmed, the former Governor of Washington State will be the third...
CAAAV (Organizing Asian Communities) just released a sobering report in collaboration with the Urban Justice Center on how gentrification in Chinatown is impacting residents and small business owners. Helena Wong, an...
Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi as much by Martin Luther King, 100 Indian Guest Workers began a historic march this Spring from New Orleans to Washington DC to demand an end to abuses created by the H2 Guest Worker program....
We’ll also hear about the remarkable victory of workers at the Upper East Side restaurant Daniel, who reached a settlement with celebrity chef Daniel Boulud after two years of protests against racial discrimination. The...
Meanwhile, however, ROC-NY was itself targeted in a suit last month by a group of workers who say they were misled about the structure of the cooperative restaurant Colors, which ROC-NY operates. They say they’re...
SOUTH KOREA is bracing for a week of political protest. One of the country’s largest trade union confederations has called for a nationwide strike tomorrow, while a coalition of more than 300 civic groups will take to...
