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Trick or treat protests hit GOP budget cuts
November 4, 2005NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — Rep. Nancy Johnson’s (R-Conn.) staff members scowled as Halloween-costumed “Fat Cats” crowded into her office to say “thanks” for $70 billion in tax giveaways to millionaires, while billions of dollars are cut...
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New Yorkers: Our votes are not for sale
November 4, 2005Commentary NEW YORK — Last week at a demonstration in Times Square marking the 2,000th American death in the Iraq war, I saw an old friend and asked if he was working for Fernando Ferrer. He...
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National Clips
November 4, 2005MONTGOMERY, Ala.: City honors Rosa Parks Fifty years ago, African American and white residents could not have lined up together at St. Paul’s AME Church. Jim Crow segregation ruled. That all changed when Rosa Parks, a...
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Hundreds gather at counter-recruiting conference
November 4, 2005BERKELEY, Calif. — As the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq neared the 2,000 mark, nearly 500 university and high school students, military resisters, veterans and peace activists gathered on the UC Berkeley campus Oct....
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Alito seen as extremist threat to mainstream rights
November 4, 2005President Bush’s Halloween nomination of Samuel Alito to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court is seen by both right and left as a confrontational “bring ’em on” offensive against mainstream democratic and progressive America.
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