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Eliminating racist team names is not a trivial issue
Is the demand for an end to the use of American Indian team names, mascots, and logos too trivial or divisive an issue for trade unionists and people of all races to support? On the contrary, this practice has serious negative social and political consequences. Sports fans have a strong attachment to the teams they […]
- February 8, 2002
Education not incarceration
Most of President Bush’s State of the Union address was devoted to declaring himself ruler of the entire world, without having won any election, but he did take some time out to talk about the economy. Bush’s speech contained themes that will continue as major issues in the coming months. What Bush said: “American workers […]
- February 8, 2002
Education not incarceration
COMENTRARY The most industrialized nation in the world, the United States, does not have the highest literacy rate in the world. However, it does have the distinction of claiming the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens. Young African-American males, and in increasing numbers females, are being incarcerated significantly out of proportion to their numbers in the […]
- February 8, 2002
Sen. Boxer: Lay memo is smoking gun
WASHINGTON – Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) assailed former Enron CEO Ken Lay Feb. 4 for pulling out of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing. She said that once again Lay is keeping the people of California “in the dark.” The next day Boxer and her colleagues on the committee voted unanimously to subpoena Lay. Writing in […]
- February 8, 2002
No applause here for Bush budget
Any doubts about President Bush’s priorities were erased when he submitted his Fiscal Year 2003 budget to Congress Feb. 4. Dubbed a budget “that leaves no military contractor behind,” the $2.13 trillion spending and tax package was met with critical reviews from the AFL-CIO, the National Education Association (NEA) and organizations concerned with the budget’s […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- February 8, 2002
Gov. calls for relief for California unemployed
LOS ANGELES – In his annual State of the State address in January, Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, called on state legislators to enact to bring much-needed relief to California’s unemployed. Building on last year’s passage of a labor-backed unemployment insurance bill (SB-40), Davis called for retroactive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, adopted in that bill, […]
- By : Evelina Alarcon
- February 8, 2002
Welfare groups rally in D.C.
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers were so busy Feb. 5 with the Enron debacle they had no time to hear from 300 poor people from across the country here to demand jobs or benefits to support their children. But Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) provided a hearing room in the Rayburn Building where grass-roots lobbyists, most of them […]
- By : Evelina Alarcon
- February 8, 2002
Labor confronts World Economic Forum
NEW YORK – “The global economy does not work for working people and that is why we are here in New York to challenge Enron economics at home and abroad,” AFL-CIO President John Sweeney told the hundreds of anti-globalization activists gathered at the kick-off protest event during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum […]
- By : Evelina Alarcon
- February 8, 2002
Another world is possible
On Jan. 31, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney warned the World Economic Forum (WEF) that working people had come to the group’s annual meeting, held Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, to “challenge Enron economics at home and abroad” and warned that the anti-globalization movement is not going to go away. “We are building an even bigger […]
- By : John Sweeney
- February 8, 2002
20,000 tell world forum people before profits
March is peaceful NEW YORK – Over 20,000 peaceful protestors converged on the Waldorf-Astoria hotel here last weekend to protest the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting being held there. The WEF, which traditionally meets in Davos, Switzerland, is a gathering of CEOs from the world’s largest corporations, multimillionaires, kings and heads of state. In addition, […]
- By : John Sweeney
- February 8, 2002