contributions

About what went on in today’s trial, read the following detailed Ha’aretz report. (The last paragraph mentions our protest.)
[Photos of the action will be on www.gush-shalom.org as soon as the website is repaired. Right now there is no access at all.] http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/317840.html
*JUDGES BLAST AG FOR CONDEMNING BARGOUTI BEFORE TRIAL’S END
By Assaf Bergerfreund, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
West Bank Fatah Movement secretary general and leader of (…)

Gush Shalom
International release July 14, 2003
"BARGHOUTI TO TALKS TABLE, NOT TO JAIL."
It was rather an unusual scene this morning in the Tel-Aviv District Court, where the Barghouti trial was about to start.. We weren’t allowed into the hall where the trial would take place, we, that is: some twenty Gush Shalom activists of all ages and a more or less similar number of cameras & journalists (not less frustrated!). We all were led to another hall, on another flour where (…)

ANSWER CALLS FOR UNITED PROTEST ON OCT. 25 TO BRING THE TROOPS HOME
By Leslie Feinberg
Grassroots anger is building again at the Bush administration’s aggression in Iraq and the lies it has told to put the war over. But this time the families of soldiers are joining the urgent demand to "End the occupation of Iraq and bring the troops home."
The International ANSWER coalition—Act Now to Stop War & End Racism— has issued a call for a mass march on Oct. 25 in Washington, D.C. More (…)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29TERR.html
Pentagon Prepares a Futures Market on Terror Attacks By CARL HULSE
WASHINGTON, July 28 - The Pentagon office that proposed spying electronically on Americans to monitor potential terrorists has a new experiment. It is an online futures trading market, disclosed today by critics, in which anonymous speculators would bet on forecasting terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups.
Traders bullish on a biological attack on Israel or (…)

by Alcides Ferreira Jul 26 - Aug 01, 2003
Last May, I wrote here about the tax and pension reforms the government had just sent to Congress. So it’s time for a follow-up. Soon, Congress will hold the first-round vote on pension reform - because it involves a constitutional amendment, the bill needs to be voted on twice. Once it clears the Lower House, the Senate then has to approve it, again in a two-round vote.
The pension reform bill is slightly different from the text I (…)

Let us hope this display of bullying by the joint blue and white collar sectors continues. This will show the lengths to which some people will go to look after themselves, regardless of the common good. The judges threat to strike is a serious challenge to democracy and an intolerable abuse of power. John Fitzpatrick
It has been quite a week. The pension reform proposals were given a symbolic nod of approval by a Congressional committee in the face of the juggernaut of vested (…)

We May Have Forgotten; North Korea Hasn’t
By Thomas P. Kim Thomas P. Kim is a professor of politics and international relations at Scripps College, Claremont, Calif.
July 23, 2003
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpkim233383942jul23,0,7789520.story
The Bush administration is debating the possibility of a "surgical strike" on North Korea. This notion is fundamentally shortsighted. To resolve the current military crisis over North Korea, policy-makers need (…)

ESOP regrets - Worker ownership was UAL nightmare Ex-employees feel sting of costly job-saving initiative
By Chris O’Malley
July 27, 2003, The Indianapolis Star
http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/4/060908-9694-031.html
A decade ago, United Airlines employees thought that by becoming owners of their company they would save their jobs and supplement their retirement.
Instead, the 1,100 mechanics who lost their jobs this year when United ditched its (…)

Barefoot, Sick, Hungry and Afraid - The Real U.S. Policy In Africa - Cover Story http://www.blackcommentator.com/50/50_cover_africa.html "Our policy with respect to the continent of Africa at best has been a policy that is inconsistent and incoherent," said NAACP Executive Director Kweisi Mfume, in Miami Beach last weekend for the organization’s annual convention. "We’ve looked away in many instances because Africa was not politically correct or politically cute." (…)

*Rural workers in Brazil press fight for land *Land takeovers, public employee strikes worry Wall Street * BY MICHAEL ITALIE * The Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) in Brazil has launched some 120 land occupations this year and is demanding the government step up land distribution to the dispossessed, while the owners of vast latifundia are adamant in their calls for the administration to clamp down on those who challenge their hold on property.
The new administration of Luis Inácio (…)