Archive for the 'Heroes' Category

Bunny Greenhouse Faced Halliburton War Profits Express

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

“My father always taught me to be strong and have dignity, to not have to bow down or have anyone run over you,” said Bunnatine Greenhouse20. An older brother and sister each earned doctorates and taught at universities, her younger brother earned a place in the National Basketball Association hall of fame (Elvin Hayes), [...]

Flint Workers Sat Down and U.S. Middle Class Rose Up

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

The Speed-Up
“I wanted a union not so much for the money,” said line worker Peter Schmitz, “I wanted a union … to have a little say so about the speed of that line. Like I say you couldn’t do quality work, it just wasn’t possible that you could do quality work the way you had [...]

JAG Officer Charles Swift Stops Bush’s Kangaroo Court

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Last month the Supreme Court ruled that President Bush’s military tribunals at Guantanamo were illegal – a violation of the United States’ Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Geneva Conventions1. The case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, was brought by Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift of the Navy Justice Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps. Swift [...]

Greenpeace Explorers on First-Ever Summertime Trek to North Pole

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

Two Greenpeace explorers are now trekking across the Arctic Ocean to the North Pole – the first ever such trip during summertime1. The trip is harder and riskier in the summertime, when the seasonal melting of the ice sheet leaves large gaps of ocean water, shaky ice, dense fog and deep slush. The [...]

Helen Keller in Her Own Words

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

A fever took Helen Keller’s sight and hearing at the age of one-and-a-half. On March 3, 1887, when Keller was six, a teacher, Anne Sullivan, came to stay at her house. Sullivan taught Keller language by spelling into her hand. Keller wrote about the first word that she understood1:

I knew then that [...]