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Beware the home-ownership Enron

April 26, 2002

In a cruel hoax, the capitalists are singing “home ownership” as a solution to the terrible insecurity their system creates daily. President George W. Bush is the current lead for the “Culture of Ownership” band. But...

WTOs third try a charm for Southern nations

April 26, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

Two years ago in Seattle, the transnational corporations at the meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) expected to extend so-called “free trade,” already in place under NAFTA, around the world. Their plot failed due to...

300 rally for peace and justice

April 26, 2002

TUCSON – “This kind of movement can lead the way to world peace,” thundered local Jobs with Justice leader Steve Valencia to equally loud applause from the hundreds of people gathered at Catalina Park here. Valencia...

Progressive programs under attack

April 26, 2002 By Michael Feldman

NEW YORK – Marymount Manhattan College (MMC) is a small liberal arts college located on the Upper East Side here. The beginning of the spring terms marked a fundamental change in the way MMC is administered....

May Day: Born in the USA

April 26, 2002

On June 22, 1835, in Philadelphia, on the Schuykill River coal wharves, the workers paraded in the streets behind banners demanding, “From 6 to 6, ten hours work and two hours for meals.” They won their...