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By Axel Bugge
BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has offended allies in his drive for economic reforms but his agenda may pass as he quickly learns to work with Brazil’s fractious Congress, political observers say.
Overhauling the debt-ridden public pensions and cumbersome tax systems would be major achievements for Brazil’s first elected center-left government and enable Lula to concentrate on his campaign promises of creating millions of jobs and to help (…)

BY MELISSA MCCORD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted on Sunday, July 27, 2003
JEFFERSON, Wis. - Yard signs urge people to boycott Tyson Foods. The town’s two grocery stories no longer sell Tyson chicken and meat, and signs taped in restaurant windows advertise Tyson-free meals.
A strike by 470 workers at Tyson’s Jefferson plant has turned into a fight between some of the 7,300 residents of Jefferson and the world’s largest meat company. The walkout is also the first under Tyson by one of the (…)

by Keith Coffman
July 26, 2003 by Reuters
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0726-01.htm
DENVER - Three Roman Catholic nuns who defaced a Colorado nuclear missile silo with their own blood as part of a peace protest last year were sentenced on Friday to prison terms ranging from 30 to 41 months by a judge who called them "dangerously irresponsible."
Sister Ardeth Platte, second from left, hugs an unidentified supporter, left, as sisters Jackie Hudson, third from left, and Carol (…)

By TODD PITMAN
July 27, 2003, washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53618-2003Jul27.html
KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghans who have never seen a film before will get their chance this summer, courtesy of a French-organized network of mobile cinemas now traveling across the war-shattered nation, a United Nations spokesman said.
Caravans of four-wheel-drive vehicles equipped with video screens, projectors and generators will show three educational films in eight (…)

By STEVE ROSEN Columnist
Jul. 27, 2003, The Kansas City Star
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/6371619.htm
Youngsters attending the Romeo Corbeil Summer Camp typically play a game that involves a walk into the woods.
Except there’s a twist.
The point of this game is to show the income disparity between a corporate chief executive and an everyday laborer. While one camper marks off a few paces to symbolize the laborer salary, another camper playing the role of the (…)

15 countries coordinate for 27th of September International Antiwar Day-No occupation in Iraq and Palestine
Dear friends
we just came back from Genoa where we had the meeting of Preparatory Assembly for ESF.
We had the opportunity there to exchange ideas for action and coordination in a meeting of antiwar initiatives. Also present were iraqui delegates who support the idea of resistance to the US appointed Council. They informed us that 1 million signatures were (…)

INTERVIEW WITH VIETNAM-ERA ORGANIZERS: PROSPECTS FOR GI RESISTANCE IN IRAQ
By John Catalinotto
Last year, in the Oct. 31 issue of Workers World, we interviewed former American Servicemen’s Union chairperson Andy Stapp. He told us then that "It’s hard to say what will happen in a short war, fought mostly from the air. But in a long occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan with guerrilla fighting and steady casualties, a real opposition movement within the military is possible."
Stapp, who was (…)