Evelina Alarcon

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Labor issues get attention on campus

March 15, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

Graduate assistants at the University of Michigan went on strike March 11 to protest a lack of progress in contract talks, and University of Illinois graduate employees plan to strike next month – their second walkout...

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International Notes

March 15, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

Human rights campaign in South Africa/Australian minister nixes Kyoto agreement/Russia: U.S. troops could deepen conflicts/Paris strikers win over McDonald’s

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Dancers with dreams

March 8, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

EW YORK – On Friday, March 15th at 7:30 p.m., the YAI Players, a performance troupe consisting of people with disabilities, in collaboration with the Theater of Dreams and The Berkeley Carroll School will perform God...

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U.S. Communist leaders visit China

March 8, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

The Communist Party USA has sent a four-person delegation to visit the People’s Republic of China. On invitation from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, CPUSA National Chairman Sam Webb, International Secretary Marilyn...

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U.S. may beef up security role in Afghanistan

March 1, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

In both word and deed, the Bush administration indicated this week that it is escalating its military role in Afghanistan amid signs that increased clashes among competing warlords and challenges by rival militias to the U.S-installed...

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Du Bois conference views media

March 1, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

NEW YORK – Activists gathered at New York University (NYU) Law School Feb. 22-24 for a conference dedicated to applying the legacy of scholar W.E.B. Du Bois to contemporary struggles of racism, culture, the environment, media...

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St. Patricks concert for Sept. 11 victims

March 1, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

NEW YORK – Stephen Tharp, associate organist at St. Bartholomew’s Church, will perform a “September 11th Commemoration Concert” at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on the six-month anniversary of the attacks, Monday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m.

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Union fighting anti-labor port security billee

March 1, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

The Port and Maritime Security Act of 2001, a bill now before the Congress, is one of the legislative overreactions to the Sept. 11 terrorist attack that could gut union rights at our nation’s ports.

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