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Rally blasts Bush giveaways to rich
CHICAGO – Several hundred people, including many who were attending the national convention of USA Action, rallied in the State of Illinois Plaza here Sept. 14 to denounce the Bush administration’s giveaways to the rich and to demand help for people affected by Sept. 11 and the current recession. USA Action President William McNary accused […]
- November 22, 2001
NYC firefighters fight City Hall and win
COMMENTARY NEW YORK – Amidst the burning rubble of the World Trade Center, firefighters continue to extinguish the two-month-old fires and search for the remains of thousands still buried there. Just as it should be. The administration of Mayor Rudy Giuliani tried to put a stop to the search for human remains and speed the […]
- November 22, 2001
NYC homeless and hungry grows after 9/11
NEW YORK – The number of homeless and hungry in New York City is increasing. The Coalition for the Homeless says the lack of affordable housing, the downturn in the economy and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have resulted in an all-time high of nearly 30,000 homeless adults and children in city shelters. New York […]
- November 22, 2001
Conyers challenges Bush on tribunals
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Conyers and other Members of Congress hold press conference to express concerns regarding the administration’s actions on Military Tribunals and Anti-terrorism. Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee joined Congressmen Bob Barr (R-Ga.), Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Bobby Scott (D-Va.), Mel Watt (D-N.C.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Sheila […]
- November 22, 2001
Private airport security firms get the boot
Privatization, the holy Grail of the ultra-right, has taken some heavy hits since the Sept. 11 terrorist attack and not just because the heroes were public employees – firefighters, emergency medical workers and the police. The issue has come to a head on several fronts including airport security, the role of the nation’s public health […]
- November 22, 2001
Peoples Weekly World: An alternative news source that needs your support!
After the record-breaking fund drive of National Public Radio, it is clear people want to hear the stories from the alternative media. The alternatative media reports the stories censored by the corporate media. The People’s Weekly World is part of the alternative media, yet with our own history and editorial line. We put a working […]
- November 22, 2001
They had no turkey for Thanksgiving
When I talked to her the Monday before Thanksgiving, Carolina Morales was standing in line at the food pantry run by St. Maurice Catholic Church in Chicago’s Southwest side. She had come to pick up sacks of food that, she said, “will make it possible for us to have dinner on Thanksgiving. It won’t be […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 22, 2001
False friend wrote the book on backstabbing
The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919-57, by Vernon L. Pedersen, University of Illinois Press, Urbana & Chicago 2001. The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919-57, is a strange book by an even stranger author. Vernon Pedersen appeared in Maryland in the middle 1980s seeking help with his PhD thesis, a historical study of the state’s Communist […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 17, 2001
Globalization and India
Despite the enthusiasm of its supporters economic globalization gives rise to fierce exploitation, economic instability and crisis. The “globalization” touted by the major economic gurus has created problems around the world, including AIDs, poverty, hunger, debt, labor migration (people having to flee their own countries), global warming and increased national and racial oppression. Today’s global […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 17, 2001
Protesters press Greece on refugees, troops
ATHENS, Greece – Over 10,000 protesters gathered Nov. 8 in Syntagma (Constitution) Square here in a rally against the attacks on Afghanistan. Chanting, “We’re not with NATO or the Taliban, stop the war in Afghanistan” they marched to the U.S. Embassy, where speakers from the trade unions and the KKE (Communist Party of Greece), among […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 17, 2001