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  • MAY DAY- the Real Labor Day
    30 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 1st, International Workers’ Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognized in every country except the United States, Canada, and South Africa. This despite the fact that the holiday began in the 1880s in the United States, with the fight for an eight-hour work day.
    In 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions passed a resolution stating that eight hours would constitute a legal day’s work from and after May 1, 1886. (…)

  • Former Italian Activist Threatened With Extradition
    26 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Around 150 former Italian activists, condemned in Italy for actions linked with the political and social upheaval of the 1970s, have emigrated to France. Since 1981, they have been legally residing there on the promise made by the former French President Francois Mitterrand. He promised that they would always have safe refuge there so long as they renounced their past political activities, did not go underground, and did not involve themselves in politics. Some of them are now being unfairly (…)

  • Bush under fire for censorship images of war dead
    26 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Since the start of the war in March 2003, more than 700 US troops have died in
    Iraq, with more than 100 killed this month alone.
    In an extraordinary violation of the First Amendment, Bush has forbidden journalists
    from taking pictures but the censorship
    has been broken.
    Bush try to hide the consequences of the war, firing two cargo workers who photographed
    flag-draped coffins of U.S.
    soldiers killed in Iraq
    The Pentagon also criticized the release of the photos, since the (…)

  • 1.000.000 people, in the women’s rally in Washington
    26 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Speaking beyond the masses to policy-makers, Francis Kissling of Catholics for
    a Free Choice declared, "You will hear our pro-choice voices ringing in your
    ears until such time that you permit all women to make our own reproductive choices."
    Abortion-rights supporters marched in the hundreds of thousands Sunday, galvanized
    by what they see as an erosion of reproductive freedoms under President Bush
    and foreign policies that hurt women worldwide. It was the largest turnout in
    favor (…)

  • April 25th : about the March for Women’s Lives
    25 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.marchforwomen.org
    The time is right for a public demonstration of historic size in support of reproductive freedom and justice for all women. Threats to these rights have never been so systematic and coordinated, and the lives and health of women have never faced such peril. On April 25th, in our Nation’s Capitol we march to uphold - Choice, Justice, Access, Health, Abortion, Global and Family Planning.
    For the first time ever this pro-choice march is a collaborative effort - (…)

  • MAY DAY MESSAGE, FROM THE WORLD FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS
    25 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    On the occasion of May Day 2004, the WFTU conveys its fraternal greetings of international solidarity to working people and trade unions in all countries, wishing them success in their struggles for a better life, in a better world.
    As the world’s trade unions and other social organisations proclaimed in recent years, a better world is, indeed, possible and is necessary. The clear aims of the working people and trade unions and their determination to pursue this struggle are abundantly (…)

  • JOIN THE MILLION WORKER MARCH ON WASHINGTON D.C.
    18 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A million worker march is planned for mid October 2004. This mobilization, first initiated by the ILWU, local 10, is in response to the attacks upon working families in America and the millions of jobs lost under the current administration with the complicity of Congress. The working class has not suffered such hardships since the Great Depression. Help us organize and fight back.
    OUR MISSION STATEMENT
    Thirty-six years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. summoned working people across America (…)

  • Thank you very much for all your help
    16 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    I am Asako KAGEYAMA, a NGO staff in Hokkaido Japan, who wrote a letter to ask you help the three Japanese citizens who captured in Iraq.
    Tonight, I heard the news that they have released, I saw them on TV in good health.Thank you very very very very very much for everything you have done for them and us.
    Since I wrote the letter, I have got many responces from many places of the world, that are big encourragement to us all. From time to time, groups of the people associated to WSF and no (…)

  • Three Japanese hostages released
    16 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Arab television station Al-Jazeera on Thursday showed footage of the trio
    The three appeared unharmed. Nahoko Takato, a 34-year-old aid worker who worked
    with street children in Iraq, cried into her hands. Noriaki Imai, who went to
    Iraq to raise awareness about the effects of depleted uranium munitions, shook
    hands with a committee member. The third hostage, 32-year-old photojournalist
    Soichiro Koriyama, also was shown.
    They were released in good health to the Muslim Clerics (…)

  • Italian Hostage Killed in Iraq
    15 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Italian government has confirmed the execution of one of the Italian hostages
    in Iraq, 36-year-old Fabrizio Quattrocchi, one of the four Italian security guards
    abducted Monday in Iraq.
    The Al-Jazeera TV network said Wednesday it received a videotape allegedly showing
    the killing, in which the abductors threaten to kill the remaining hostages if
    their demands are not met.
    Al-Jazeera said it did not broadcast the tape because it was too graphic.
    The kidnappers have (…)