The Supreme Court ruled in January that corporations can spend as much as they want to help elect and defeat candidates.

A new study says that the number of children living in poverty increased by 21 percent between 2000 and 2008.

Try making this classic pie at home.

Avatar isn’t just another dumb action flick. Between the special effects, Avatar slips in a worthwhile anti-war, anti-conquest message.

The issue of young children working in the fields is not rare. In fact, there are as many as 400,000 children under age 18 work in U.S. agriculture according to the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs.

Thousands of students, faculty, and workers across California joined together in the last months of 2009 to protest tuition increases and job cuts in the Univeristy of California system.

Armando helps farmworkers learn that no employer should be allowed to underpay them or treat them badly.

President Obama announced troop increases in Afghanistan, drawing protests in cities across the country.

“We are going to have more hurricanes, more forest fires, and if we don’t do anything, the sea levels will actually rise….We have to act now, and we have to act fast.”
– Lauren Thorpe, Greenpeace field organizer

Jesse works in Yosemite National Park. He started as a back-country ranger, helping lost or injured hikers.