The fight for social justice is a full-time job.  That’s been the driving philosophy behind the Davis Putter Scholarship Fund for more than half-a-century.  The fund provides grants to students actively working for peace and justice.

After paralyzing operations at the offshore platforms and refineries of Brazil’s troubled National Oil Company Petrobras for the last three days, workers ended a strike Monday.  Members of the Federation of Petroleum Workers walked off the job just before Christmas after rejecting a proposed salary increase that fell short of inflation.  The union is also concerned about a contract changes that could reduce hours for the company’s 85,000 workers. 

AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka says American workers need a president who sees workers as "partners to be engaged, not as subjects to be manipulated."

Trumka says workers don't need a savior to speak for us, we want to raise up our own voices through unions.

More than a hundred national organizations are calling on President Obama to use presidential pardon powers by "issuing a pardon for lawfully present immigrants with years-old or low-level criminal offenses."

Walter Barrientos is a lead organizer with Make The Road New York.

The biggest political lesson Democrats have to understand is that the November election was lost in the industrial Midwest because for decades Democrats failed to meet the real needs of working people.