World

Chicagoans to hear about Venezuela

March 21, 2003

The Venezuelan ambassador to the United States, Dr. Bernardo Alvarez, will visit Chicago for a public presentation, March 28. The following is a recent letter Alvarez wrote to the U.S. press. The United States was founded...

Israeli army bulldozer kills American citizen

March 21, 2003 By Special to People’s World

International civilians are in the Occupied Palestinian Territories attempting to protect Palestinian human rights and lives precisely because formal international bodies have refused to take action to do so.

Civil rights lawyer: Patriot Act must go

March 20, 2003

MILWAUKEE – Bruce Finerty, a Chicago attorney and head of the Chicago chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, spoke here to an overflow audience of about 100 people recently on the need for the public to...

International notes

March 14, 2003

Turkey: Torches for peace Students, professors and workers lit torches symbolizing the light of life and peace at universities around the country on March 3, in an action organized by the Communist Party of Turkey. The...

Labor leaders to Bush: Stop bullying Mexico

March 14, 2003

Leaders of the nation’s main farm labor organizations sent a letter on March 10 to President George Bush expressing their “outrage over the heavy-handed tactics” employed by his administration against the government of Mexico. Dolores Huerta,...