The Nowtopian movement embodies a growing minority seeking emancipation from the treadmill of consumerism and overwork. Acting locally in the face of unfolding global catastrophes, friends and neighbors are redesigning many of the crucial technological

In the early 1990's a loose-knit group of likeminded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifest

Teenagers and young adults from neighborhoods in East and West Oakland are hired for the summer to glean fruit from backyard trees, largely in the Dimond, Laurel and Fruitvale neighborhoods, if residents don't have the inclination to do so themselves.

Both presidential candidates recently allowed themselves to be interrogated about their faith and beliefs by an evangelical minister. WHY?

SAN FRANCISCO - Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her longtime partner in June on the first day that California's same-sex couples gained that right, died Wednesday. She was 87.

Top Republican so-called leaders recently sold the future of our children to Big Pharma for a paltry $4 bucks a pop. That's the additional cost to produce a safe vaccine, a vaccine minus the mercury-based preservative thimerosal.

More than 30 Navajo Code Talkers showed up for a parade and ceremony at Veterans Memorial Park in their honor Thursday.

Dennis Banks, the 75-year-old Ashinaabe co-founder of the American Indian Movement and activist in Native issues for more than 40 years, formally retired at the conclusion of the cross-country Longest Walk II in Washington, D.C., July 11.

Are you a Vegetarian/Vegan planning a trip to Korea? Never fear! Because "Seoul has soul" and you can now get soy and wheat instead of meat in those heavenly Korean dishes many of us are fond of.

"She does a lot of questioning of the free-market system," Welch says, noting that one of the photos in the show is of a past action of Gilardin's, titled "No War." Gilardin took a group of TV sets, painted them camouflage colors and wheeled them