News

                
  • Union: Sago miners did not have to die

    Union: Sago miners did not have to die

    March 23, 2007

    Standing with the West Virginia congressional delegation and before the family of deceased Sago miner Jim Bennett, United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts and Secretary Treasurer Daniel Kane charged, “This tragedy was preventable and should have...

    Read more
  • Chicago officials urge end to raids, deportations

    Chicago officials urge end to raids, deportations

    March 23, 2007

    CHICAGO — By a 45-0 vote, Mayor Richard M. Daley and the City Council approved a resolution March 13 calling on President Bush to issue a moratorium immediately on all immigration raids and deportations not related...

    Read more
  • Behind the firings: GOP assault on one person, one vote

    Behind the firings: GOP assault on one person, one vote

    March 23, 2007

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Behind all the furor around U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, one of eight federal prosecutors who were fired by the Bush administration, was an effort by the Republican Party to suppress massive voter registration...

    Read more
  • Whos watching our backs?

    Whos watching our backs?

    March 16, 2007

    Forty-five dollars for a six-pack of Pepsi; $99 to wash a load of clothes. You’d have to be crazy to pay such prices. Right? Wrong. This is what Halliburton has been charging in Iraq. Soldiers interviewed...

    Read more
  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    March 16, 2007

    Not with my money!This is a copy of the letter I sent to my Bank, SunTrust, regarding their policy of financing the Coca-Cola Company. I submit this with the hope that some of your other readers...

    Read more