Barnsdall Art Park is vital part of Los Angeles — and municipal art gallery and park that the LA City Council now wants to privatize, citing budget issues. To do so would limit citizens’ access to enjoy and create art and go against the goals of the land’s donor. Sadly, the privatization seems to be steamrolling ahead with minimal community outrage input as a way to keep Barnsdall open.

The movement to defeat the budget cuts David Cameron proposes for Great Britain will be a tough one. But there may be lessons here for the inevitable budget cuts proposed by Obama at the end of this year.

Georgia students stand in solidarity with other college students across the nation fighting for public higher education. This August 7-8, Georgia Students for Public Higher Education (GSPHE), will be hosting our Summer Conference in Atlanta. All who want one should be able to get a college education.

The numbers are outrageous, sickening even. How can anyone stand to look at them?

Since 2000, the U.S. has lost 5.5 million manufacturing jobs, with 2.1 million of those jobs being lost in the last two years alone. Since 2001, over 42,400 factories have closed in the U.S., and another 90,000 are considered at severe risk of closing. The last time so few were employed in manufacturing was in 1941, before World War II spending pulled that sector out of its Great Depression slump.

Numbers like these make me want to cry.

So President Obama has come up with a big and bold solution to deal with problem. He’s going to shut down the federal office that counts how many jobs are being shipped overseas.

While Obama’s proposed budget freeze will curtail domestic and social spending here at home, wasteful foriegn spending can continue unchecked.

News of a steep hike in tuition fees at University of California public schools have students riled up at campuses across the UC system.

Republicans think entitlements are bad. Let’s start the cuts with them.

Showing the effects already apparent on Social Services during hte economic crisis and downturn