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Forging a peace majority
The Bush Administration seeks to ride the crest of popular demand for security against terrorism through Congress and the courts with their own agenda. Their wish list includes re-authorizing CIA sponsored assassinations and terror against liberation movements and their leaders. They want unrestrained power to detain people without council and without charges – today it […]
- November 22, 2001
Socialist patriotism in the present crisis
To be a patriot is to love one’s country, people and civilization without hating others, without thinking yourself superior. American revolutionaries were patriots, as were Yugoslav and Chinese Communists, who led their people against Nazi and Japanese invaders. European Communists and socialists who organized resistance movements against the Nazis, their allies, and fascist puppets were […]
- November 22, 2001
Maine city to push for universal health care
PORTLAND, Me. – The Portland City Council decided Nov. 19 to add its muscle to a push for universal health care in Maine. Councilors voted 6-3 to pass a resolution endorsing the results of a Nov. 6 nonbinding referendum, in which nearly 52 percent of Portland voters supported the concept of universal health care. The […]
- November 22, 2001
Regional meeting to oppose FTAA wraps up in Havana
HAVANA, Cuba – The Hemispheric Meeting to Oppose the Free Trade Area of the Americas ended its four days of sessions Nov. 16 in the Cuban capital. Cuban President Fidel Castro delivered the closing address to more than 700 delegates from 30 countries. During an exchange with delegates last night, the Cuban leader noted that […]
- November 22, 2001
The uses and abuses of anti-Communism
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Addressing Parliament on Sept. 20, South African Foreign Minister, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said, among other things, that South Africa is opposed to terrorism. She emphasized that even during the course of the armed struggle, the ANC had scrupulously avoided terrorism as a tactic. All these points are absolutely true. After the terrorist […]
- November 22, 2001
Arizonas second biggest county wins Chavez holiday
PIMA COUNTY. Ariz. – Bowing to a well-organized campaign and public pressure, the Pima County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 13 approved a Cesar Chavez paid holiday by a vote of 3 to 2. The United Farm Workers’ founder was born in Arizona, which currently observes March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day, but not as […]
- November 22, 2001
Students mobilize to protect Pell Grant
Concerned that the recently announced budget shortfall will translate into cuts in the program and threaten the $4,000 maximum grant appropriated in spending bills, students and student advocates are mobilizing in support of increased spending in the Pell grant program. Students on campuses across the country are writing letters, sending e-mails, and calling their representatives […]
- November 22, 2001
Amid the ruins, a call for justice and peace
NEW YORK – A young woman stood in the crowd on Church Street one block north of the ruins of the World Trade Center. It was just two months after the Sept. 11 attack and smoke was still rising from the rubble. Fire blackened girders erupted from the broken concrete like the masts and spars […]
- November 22, 2001
Charleston Five agreement detailed
CHARLESTON, S.C. – In a stunning reversal, the Charleston Five, union longshoremen who spent nearly 20 months under house arrest for daring to picket a non-union shipping company, were freed after South Carolina Attorney General Charles Condon was forced out of the case. The settlement came in two hearings in which the five defendants pleaded […]
- November 22, 2001
Seattle protests FBI raid
SEATTLE – Chanting, “Being a Muslim is not a crime,” more than 200 people marched here Nov. 7 to support civil rights for Somalian residents. Immigrants from the east African country were joined by others to protest an FBI raid on Somali-owned businesses. As part of a nationwide effort, the FBI raided 62 wire-transfer services […]
- November 22, 2001