Peace

                
  • World Social Forum: Where the hopes of the world are gathered

    World Social Forum: Where the hopes of the world are gathered

    January 31, 2003 By Susan Webb

    PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil – 100,000 representatives of the world’s peoples came together in the World Social Forum here to say in one thunderous voice: No to war, no to global capitalist military and economic domination! Another...

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  • LA labor takes stand against war

    LA labor takes stand against war

    January 30, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

    LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, representing 360 unions and more than 800,000 members, unanimously passed a resolution against the Bush administration’s drive for war against Iraq, Jan. 27.

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  • Iraqi communists call for peaceful solution

    Iraqi communists call for peaceful solution

    January 30, 2003

    Iraqi communists have faced grave difficulties opposing a U.S. war against Iraq, while at the same time fighting for democratic alternatives to a repressive government headed by Pres. Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi Communist Party has rejected...

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  • Voices in the Wilderness vows to stand with Iraqis

    Voices in the Wilderness vows to stand with Iraqis

    January 30, 2003

    WASHINGTON – Voices in the Wilderness (VITW), which has delivered medicine, toys and other humanitarian relief to the Iraqi people in defiance of U.S. sanctions imposed in 1991, announced Jan. 21 that they will not pay...

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  • Anti-war demos span the globe

    Anti-war demos span the globe

    January 24, 2003

    Millions protested in hundreds of cities, in at least 37 countries around the globe Jan. 18-19 weekend, denouncing the Bush administration’s threat to attack Iraq. Some highlights: Canada: Many thousands demonstrated in over 30 cities including...

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