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  • US Labor Against the War
    29 October 2003

    US Labor Against the War
    by Kim Scipes; October 28, 2003
    http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=19&ItemID=4416
    "Bring the troops home NOW" is not only the slogan of a growing portion of the US peace movement, but it now part of the ratified program of US Labor Against the War (USLAW). Meeting in Chicago this past weekend (October 24-25), 154 delegates representing approximately 500,000 trade union members from all over the country held the first National Assembly of (…)

  • Eye witness Bagdhad
    29 October 2003

    Eye witness Bagdhad Running the gauntlet of small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades after check-in at Baghdad airport
    by Robert Fisk Independent October 28, 2003
    You need to take a military escort to reach Baghdad airport these days. Yes, things are getting better in Iraq, according to President Bush - remember that each hour that goes by - but the guerrillas are getting so close to the runways that the Americans have chopped down every tree, every palm bush, every scrap of (…)

  • Brazil To Help Bolivia
    27 October 2003

    Brazil To Help Bolivia With Import Switch; Loan Possible
    RIO DE JANEIRO -(Dow Jones)- The Brazilian government is moving to help troubled neighbor Bolivia strengthen its industry through an imports substitution program and possibly more financial aid from Brazil’s development bank BNDES.
    A spokeswoman from Brazil’s presidency said Tuesday the imports substitution program, which will be carried out in association with Argentina, will benefit Bolivia’s textile industry as well as home (…)

  • US Focus on Cuba Puts Cloud Over Caribbean
    27 October 2003

    Financial Times October 23, 2003
    US focus on Cuba puts cloud over Caribbean
    By Canute James
    On October 25 1983, the US led several Caribbean allies in a one-day invasion of Grenada, a tiny island nationof fewer than 100,000 people.
    A juntahad split from the communist government and seized power and Ronald Reagan, then US president, was determined to prevent a second Cuba from taking root. Though controversial, the junta’s overthrow marked an undeniable highlight of US engagement with (…)

  • Massive Strike Leads Italy Into Temporary Paralysis
    27 October 2003

    New York Times October 24, 2003
    Massive Strike Leads Italy Into Temporary Paralysis
    By FRANK BRUNI
    ROME, Oct. 24 - Planes idled on tarmacs, trains stopped running and much of Italy slipped into a state of temporary paralysis today as a result of a massive strike to protest a proposed increase in the retirement age.
    Hundreds of thousands of workers heeded the call of the country’s three largest labor unions and stayed away from work, and many took part in loud demonstrations that (…)

  • General Strike Brings Italy to a Halt
    27 October 2003

    The Times (UK) October 24, 2003
    General strike brings Italy to a halt
    By Agencies
    Unions protesting against the Italian Government’s planned pensions reforms went on strike today, forcing the country’s schools, trains, post offices and national airline to close.
    The four-hour general strike was called by Italy’s three largest unions, which have also organised rallies in Rome and city piazzas across the country.
    Travellers faced serious disruption to their journeys, as rail workers (…)

  • Musicians’ Union on Strike!
    26 October 2003

    Help Local 802 and Kaufman Center Teachers Win a Fair
    First Contract!
    The Kaufman Center has committed unfair labor practices
    and spent over $750,000 on union-busting lawyers, but
    refuses to negotiate any health or pension benefits for
    90% of its faculty!
    Along with no benefits, the 130 music, dance and drama
    teachers at the Kaufman Center have no job security, and
    receive 50-cent raises. Some of these teachers have
    been at the Center for more than 25 years.
    After a 20-month (…)

  • Curtains Ordered for Media Coverage of Returning Coffins
    23 October 2003

    By Dana Milbank
    Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55816-2003Oct20.html-
    October 21, 2003
    Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases in flag-draped caskets.
    To this problem, the Bush administration has found a simple solution: It has ended the public dissemination of such images by banning news coverage and photography (…)

  • Evidence Of Things Unseen: The Rise of a New Movement
    23 October 2003

    By Tom Hayden, AlterNet October 21, 2003 http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17000
    [EDITOR’S NOTE: The following piece is adapted from a speech Tom Hayden gave at the Bioneers Conference on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2003.]
    The chairman of our Joint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers, has said that "Intelligence doesn’t necessarily mean something is true. That’s not what intelligence is."
    Keep that in mind as I discuss what James Baldwin called the "evidence of things unseen."
    A few (…)

  • Will the Bombs in Baghdad Explode in Havana?
    23 October 2003

    By Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
    10/14/2003 © Tribune Media Service
    http://www.rainbowpush.org/FMPro?-db=rpodata.fp5&-format=rainbowpush%2fdata%2fdetailcommentary.htm&-lay=main&-sortfield=date&-sortorder=descend&category=commentary&-recid=32918&-find=
    A car bomb kills six and wounds 35 in Baghdad. Al-Qaeda is reportedly planning new assaults on the United States. Clearly Fidel Castro is in trouble.
    Fidel Castro? What does he have to do with Iraq and Osama (…)