International
Rivers of marchers flow through the streets for united families, legalization and rights
May 5, 2006Northern California: Rivers of white-clad demonstrators flowed through the main streets of Bay Area cities and towns on May 1 — 120,000 in San Jose, 40,000 in Sacramento and in San Francisco, 25,000 in Oakland and...
Read moreWe can end this war!
April 29, 2006To end the war and occupation in Iraq, the peace movement must continue to press Congress to bring the troops home and support every effort to move them to act. Congressional Democrats under pressure from the...
Read moreCWA hits high-tech visas
April 29, 2006Spotlighting an aspect of the nation’s immigration debate that has received little attention, the Communications Workers executive board voted April 18 to lobby against a guest worker program which allows employers to create a temporary workforce...
Read moreMovement presses on in wake of raids, arrests
April 28, 2006CHICAGO — Imagine you are at work. You’re on a break getting food from the truck outside, when you are surrounded and arrested by federal agents. That’s what happened April 19 to 1,187 workers in some...
Read moreWorkers of the world uniting: Solidarity grows for Mexican workers
April 28, 2006Hundreds of Mexican federal and state police stormed the Sicartsa steel plant in western Michoacan, April 20, to remove striking steelworkers who had occupied the plant since April 2. The police opened fire on workers with...
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