The NewStandard ceased publishing on April 27, 2007.
Jessica Azulay is a co-founder of PeoplesNetWorks and an editor at The NewStandard. A writer, activist, and educator from West Virginia, she has been an organizer in the anti-war and anti-capitalist globalization movements for almost a decade. Over the past several years, she has researched and written about political issues on three continents, including struggles in Appalachia, Nicaragua, Southern Mexico, and Israel/Palestine. Jessica has also been actively opposing and writing about anti-Muslim and anti-Arab oppression in the US since 9-11. Her work has appeared in several publications internationally, and she is a regular commentator for ZNet. To view her collection of articles and essays about Palestine and Israel (Retaliatory Strikes), which can be viewed on the web at http://tools4change.org/retaliatorystrikes
Previous contributions to The NewStandard (157):
03/23/07
EPA?s Watchdog Sheds Some Fangs to Meet Proposed Cuts
03/19/07
A Third of U.S. Jobs Pay ?Low Wages? 03/15/07
GE Contaminated Rice Turns up in Mexican Markets 03/13/07
Emergency Response Records Kept from Public, Test Reveals 03/08/07
U.S. Slams Foreign Rights Abuses, Fails to Note Own Complicity 01/11/07
?Surge? in Anti-War Protests Follows Bush?s Address 01/08/07
Ethics Reform Crawls as Dems Rake in Lobbyists? Cash 08/25/06
?Morning After Pill? Goes ?Over the Counter?, Sort Of 08/24/06
Transparency Act Anonymously Delayed in Senate 08/23/06
?Conflict of Interest? May Undermine Wiretap Judgment 08/14/06
FEMA Caves, Agrees to Test Katrina Trailers for Formaldehyde 08/08/06
Oil Firms to Profit Off Foreseen Alaska Pipe Problems 08/04/06
House Skips ?Sunset Commission? Proposals 07/31/06
House GOP Ties Min. Wage Hike to Estate Tax Cut 07/26/06
Senate Votes to Curb Teen Abortion Access 07/24/06
?Protection? Act Would Strip Consumers of Credit Safeguards 07/19/06
Seniors Begin Falling into Plan D Coverage Gap 07/13/06
Scientists Urge Changes to Prisoner Guinea-pig Rules 07/12/06
Military Contorts Over Apparent Detainee Policy Shift 07/11/06
Declassified Gitmo Notes Tell of Widespread Abuse 07/07/06
State Courts Deal Blows to Gay Marriage 07/03/06
Challenge to Indiscriminate Ga. Sex Offender Law Validated* 06/22/06
Drug Prices Already Rising Under New Medicare Plan 06/16/06
Congress?s New Anti-spam Measures Confound Interest Groups 06/15/06
Ruling on Post-9/11 Detainment Suit Mixed 05/10/06
Bush Relents Slightly on Medicare Drug Plan Deadline 05/03/06
Feds to Fund Unproven Faith-based Prisoner ?Rehab?
04/25/06
Lethal Injection Debate Misses Bigger Point, Abolitionists Say 04/19/06
IRS May Let Tax-prep Firms Share Clients? Info More Widely 04/13/06
Students Turn Up Pressure Over Labor Rights 04/12/06
Farm Subsidies Lead to Ocean Pollution, Researchers Say 04/11/06
Immigration Bills Would Challenge Citizen Workers, Too 04/04/06
Senate Immigration Bill Lacks Worker Protections 03/20/06
Feds Okay Plan to Deny Remote Polling for Katrina Refugees 03/16/06
EPA Under Fire for Inaction on Katrina Cleanup 03/01/06
Pentagon Already Accused of Violating McCain Torture Ban 02/16/06
More Abu Ghraib Photos Emerge Despite Defiant Pentagon, Press 02/02/06
Report Rebukes Chertoff, Omits Katrina Response Duties 02/01/06
Groups Scramble to Defeat Budget Cuts 11/30/05
Santa Fe?s Living Wage Law Survives First Legal Challenge 11/23/05
Threatened New Orleans Tenants Fight Back Against Evictions Scourge 11/18/05
New Orleans Neighborhoods Demand Trailers to Help Rebuild 11/13/05
Volunteers: Police Harassment of New Orleans Relief Workers Escalating 11/10/05
Grassroots Group Plans Thanksgiving Relief Effort in New Orleans
10/24/05
New Orleans Activists Fill Aid Gaps Left by FEMA, Red Cross 10/24/05
Kansas Court Overturns Discriminatory Sodomy Law 10/24/05
Jury Rejects Prison-rape case, Exonerating Accused Guards 10/18/05
Bayou Towns Still Fending for Selves After Rita?s Floods* 10/17/05
Some Neighborhoods Rebuild, But Part of Lower 9th Remains Off-limits 10/12/05
Abuse, Forced Labor Rampant in New Orleans Justice System