International – Page 607

U.S. wars and the Puerto Rican people

July 1, 2003

Opinion The United States took over Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898 and ruled it the same way other European powers ruled their colonies for many years – as a source of raw materials and a...

Counting the dead in Iraq

July 1, 2003

Opinion On an almost daily basis, U.S. casualties in the invasion of Iraq continue to mount, one by one, as families grieve for their loved ones who are not coming home. Thus far, there have been...

Latin America fights neolibralism

July 1, 2003

When the Peruvian trade union movement organized demonstrations this month in support of the public school teachers’ strike and against the government-imposed State of Emergency, the demonstrations turned into protests against President Alejandro Toledo’s neoliberal economic...

Anit-immigrant wall endangers nature, too

July 1, 2003

TUCSON, Ariz. – “The Sonoran Desert is a place of stunning beauty and provides essential habitat for a surprising number of plant and animal species found nowhere else on earth,” said Scotty Johnson, a representative of...

International notes

July 1, 2003

Canada: Women & unions win landmark settlement Some 100,000 women, in mostly female public sector workplaces across Ontario will get up to $414 million in pay equity funding from the provincial government under settlement of an...