The Campaign for Community Values was launched by the Center for Community Change and forty grassroots organizations in the fall of 2007, after an extensive process to identify effective strategies for influencing the national political debate of 2008 and beyond. It grew out of a sense that our country was on the wrong track – [...]

Thanks to Cindy Milstein for forwarding this for posting.
By Cindy Milstein
(Note: This essay is reprinted from the July–August 2008 issue of Left Turn magazine, which features a special section on the elections; it was written before Obama secured the nomination.)
“The world as it is, is not the world as it has to be.”[1] [...]

For 18 months the people of the Moquegua region (southeastern Peru) and the mining workers from that region have been seeking for peaceful negotiations with the Peruvian government of Lima.
The moqueguanos were trying to lobby against a bill sent by the Peruvian executive to Congress which could mean a reduction of the royalties paid by [...]

On the weekend of May 31-Jun 1 dozens of African American organizers, artists and activists convened the first Black Left Unity(BLU) Meeting at the Sonia Hayes Center in Chapel Hill, NC.The gathering was a continuation of the Black Left Unity caucus that meet in Atlanta during the US Social Forum.
As the BLU statement reads “[In [...]

On May 29, 2008, three Palestinian Left organizations, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Palestine People’s Party, announced the inception of a Palestinian Left Front.
The aim of this initiative is to move discussion and dialogue into action in order to unite the Palestinian [...]