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Ashcroft fishing expedition comes up empty

June 18, 2004

News Analysis In a stunning rebuff to Attorney General John Ashcroft’s version of the “war on terror,” Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, 34, a Saudi national studying computer science at the University of Idaho in Moscow, was acquitted...

G-8 Summit protesters hit war, greed

June 18, 2004

BRUNSWICK, Ga. – On June 8-10 many businesses here closed their doors as the city was virtually taken over by 20,000 military personnel and police who guarded the summit meeting of the Group of Eight. The...

National Clips

June 18, 2004

DECATUR, Ga.: Labor backs McKinney for Congress “Cynthia McKinney has a long record in the Congress as 100 percent for labor as well as other working issues,” said Georgia AFL-CIO President Richard Ray June 10. He...

Education fasters win historic victory

June 18, 2004

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – After 26 days, the two remaining activists in the “Fast 4 Education,” Cesar Cruz and Israel Haro, ended their fast June 4 after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill that will help poor...

Union support grows for Medicare for All

June 18, 2004

At its 33rd National Convention in Atlanta Memorial Day weekend, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists endorsed the United States National Health Insurance Act, HR 676, the single-payer health care bill introduced by Rep. John Conyers...