Press Conference for May Day 2011 Union Square + Protest videos

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Updated: May 1, 2011 added protest videos PeoplesVideo on Apr 30, 2011

Portland’s Neighborhood Tool Sharing Libraries

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ peakmoment on Apr 30, 2011 Peak Moment 194: Need a tool for a few days? Don’t have it? Neighbor doesn’t have it? Borrow it from your neighborhood tool library! No tool library? Check out Portland, where several neighborhoods have started successful tool libraries just in the last few years. Organizers Tom Thompson, Karen Tarnow [...]

Ralph Nader: Seniors: The Great Human Resource of Our Country

Dandelion Salad PensionRightsCenter on Apr 26, 2011 Karen Ferguson introduces long-time consumer advocate Ralph Nader who presents the 2011 Helen Quirini Activist Award to Ewa Bielski, Paul Edwards, C. William Jones, and Janice Winston.

The Haymarket Riot: “It is a subterranean fire” by Elizabeth Schulte

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Elizabeth Schulte SocialistWorker.org April 29, 2011 ON MAY 1, 1886–125 years ago this month–hundreds of thousands of workers were taking the streets of cities around the U.S. to demand an eight-hour day. The epicenter of this great labor struggle was Chicago, where the eight-hour movement inspired defiant protests and strikes–and inspired fear and [...]

Chris Hedges: Empires Die, but Kendra is Dancing With the Stars

with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 29, 2011 golefttv on Apr 29, 2011 Our democracy has been hijacked. Not just by greedy Republicans or by spineless democrats, but by the corporations who are pulling their strings from behind the scenes. And we have a mainstream media system in America that has remained complacent [...]