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CAMP soups up fundraising
ST. LOUIS – The Community Arts and Media Project (CAMP) held a “Soup-Er Bowl Party” Jan. 27 to raise funds for a building it hopes to purchase here. CAMP is a cooperative consisting of the St. Louis Independent Media Center (IMC), the Center for Alternative Technology, Food Not Bombs, SouthSide University, the Gateway Green Alliance, […]
- February 1, 2002
Does Nickelodeon really care for kids?
LOS ANGELES – During the holiday season parents searched for movies appropriate for their children, and Hollywood studios spent millions of dollars to capture that young audience. Among the releases this Christmas was a Nickelodeon movie, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, that the company hopes will lead to enormous merchandising revenues. The studio has developed a […]
- February 1, 2002
International Notes
Japanese peace group asks for anti-nuke messages Since 1974, all ships entering the Japanese Port of Kobe must first certify that no nuclear weapons are on board. In that year, Kobe’s local government passed “the Kobe Formula,” banning nuclear arms, under Japanese law giving municipalities authority over their ports. No U.S. ship has called there […]
- By : Evelina Alarcon
- February 1, 2002
CPs declare solidarity with Palestinian people
ATHENS – Meeting here last weekend, representatives of Communist and workers parties of the southern and eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf and Red Sea regions reiterated their solidarity with the Palestinian people. They called for the immediate end of Israeli aggression, withdrawal of occupying forces from Palestinian Authority areas and the immediate lifting of the […]
- By : Evelina Alarcon
- February 1, 2002
Americans and Afghans grieve together
KABUL, Afghanistan – Coming together in common grief, a group of Americans who lost relatives in the Sept. 11 terror attacks on Jan. 16 visited three Afghan children whose mother was killed in an errant U.S. airstrike. The four Americans said they hoped to draw attention to those who suffered from the U.S. bombing campaign […]
- By : Evelina Alarcon
- February 1, 2002
Israeli public opinion: Something has changed
TEL AVIV – Awareness is growing among the Israeli public about the serious dangers caused by Sharon’s policies and actions against the Palestinians, and new opposition to it can be seen. The media are increasingly reporting facts about which they had previously kept silent. Last Friday, both main official TV channels broadcast shocking details about […]
- By : Evelina Alarcon
- February 1, 2002
Letters
Controversy is democracy Our history is not good. We scalped the Indians when we conquered the land and we lied and said they scalped the whiteman first. We broke every treaty and agreement with them. Abraham Lincoln was killed by a hungry actor, Booth, but it was a conspiracy by plantation owners and industrialists to […]
- By : Evelina Alarcon
- February 1, 2002
Editorials
Meeting the challenge African-American History Month begins against the backdrop of deepening working-class poverty and unemployment, ongoing racial profiling and more Black men and women in jail than in college. The Sept. 11 attack is still an open wound, and, with the collapse the steel industry, Enron and Kmart, it’s no wonder that many are […]
- By : Evelina Alarcon
- February 1, 2002
Students oppose tuition hikes
CHICAGO – Deep funding cuts aimed at solving the Illinois state budget crisis will wallop students in the University of Illinois (U of I) system. Republican Gov. George Ryan has cut $34 million in funds allocated to the university this year to close a $500-million budget gap resulting from the deepening economic recession. In response, […]
- By : Evelina Alarcon
- February 1, 2002
Break the silence on civilian deaths
The capitalist press has been shy about revealing the toll the “War on Terrorism” has exacted on the innocent in Afghanistan. Those residing in the U.S. are not being told about the devastation that U.S. bombs are raining down upon innocent civilians. Yet some in the U.S. media openly debate the merits of torture as […]
- By : Evelina Alarcon
- February 1, 2002