Other – Page 112 – People's World

Guantanamo hunger strike

September 30, 2005

Despite conflicting reports from the Pentagon and total silence from the Red Cross, prisoners at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have held several hunger strikes since 2002, protesting conditions and their prolonged confinement...

LETTERS

September 23, 2005

Extradite Posada Carriles The Bush administration offer of protection to Luis Posada Carriles through a low-key, immigration hearing in El Paso, Texas (PWW 9/10-16), ignored by the media, in fact applies the unconstitutional Cuban Adjustment Act...

Labor Update

September 23, 2005

Boeing grounded for third week Production remains totally shut down at Boeing facilities across the U.S. as a strike of 18,000 aerospace workers enters its third week, according to Machinist Union spokesperson Connie Kelliher. Strikers are...

NATIONAL CLIPS

September 23, 2005

HUNTSVILLE, Texas: State executes Frances Newton Despite a grassroots movement and appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, Texas executed Frances Newton, 40, on Sept. 14. Outside the prison, scores of protesters held a vigil. Newton is...

Calif. gov. to veto same-sex marriage

September 16, 2005

Within a day after the California Legislature approved a bill legalizing same sex marriage, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said last week that while he respects the legal protections already in place in California for gays, he would...