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A people’s health agenda for the new year
The political action agendas for labor and people’s movements in 2002 will be crucial to the next decade of social progress. The severe economic crisis will challenge everyone to mobilize their forces to confront corporate America and its White House and Congressional supporters. This next period of time will require the highest amount of unity […]
- January 12, 2002
Indiana AFL-CIO hears steelworker president
INDIANAPOLIS – On Dec. 17 over 350 union delegates assembled here for the 22nd Indiana State AFL-CIO convention. Delegates from 118 different labor organizations included members of service, education and government unions, as well as building trades and industrial unions. Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson welcomed the delegates with the announcement that he will sign the […]
- January 12, 2002
Life and debt in Dallas
DALLAS – Activists from the civil rights, environmental, labor and peace movements have already come together in here as the new year begins. At least three joint actions have brought the formerly separate groups closer together. On Dec. 29, environmentalist Molly Rooke organized a discussion at the Angelika theater after a showing of the film […]
- January 12, 2002
Honor Dr. King on his Birthday
When we marched to make Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday a national holiday we never dreamed what it would become. We had always celebrated with marches, rallies, church services and memorial meetings. But after the national holiday was won the corporations kicked into gear to strip this holiday of its political significance and turn it […]
- January 12, 2002
Layoffs don’t make airlines safer
CHICAGO – After getting a $15-billion bailout, major airlines then used Sept. 11 as a pretext to eliminate meals on most domestic flights. This makes it possible for them to add to their profit column the wages of thousands of workers from “in-flight kitchens” who they’ve dumped on the unemployment lines. But last month, Hotel […]
- January 12, 2002
700 attend State of the Black World conference
ATLANTA – The State of the Black World Conference was held here Nov. 28-Dec. 2 with 700 African Americans, Africans and African descendents from England, the Americas and many Caribbean Islands, including Cuba. It was convened to discuss issues and problems Black people face in the U.S. and the world community, from racism and oppression […]
- January 12, 2002
Homelessness rises across the nation
The first storm of the season brought more than snow and cold to the thousands of homeless people in New York City. It also brought death to George Dalton, a homeless man who froze to death the night of Jan. 3 while sleeping under a highway overpass. Dalton was 64 and a Vietnam veteran. Across […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- January 12, 2002
What caused the crisis in Argentina
The Communist Party of Argentina (CPA) hailed the victory of the mass uprising led by the United Left that has forced the resignation of four presidents in Argentina in the past two weeks. The CPA demanded an end to policies that opened the door for massive corporate looting of Latin America’s third-largest nation over the […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- January 12, 2002
Disabilities group blasts high court ruling
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous Jan. 8 decision to reverse a lower court’s ruling, which had been in favor of an injured woman auto worker, was sharply criticized by defenders of civil rights for disabled people. They branded it another step to undermine the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Andrew Imperato, president […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- January 12, 2002
An eyewitness speaks on the costs of war
Jim Jennings, president of Conscience International, has seen the costs of war up close. Jennings, currently preparing for his fourth trip to Afghanistan, said, “The public is being shielded from the extent of civilian casualties; if people saw the war close up, they would not be so enthusiastic about it.” Conscience International is a U.S.-based […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- January 12, 2002