Hundreds hear Michael Moore in Seattle
SEATTLE – On a cloudy Monday afternoon, several hundred people packed into an auditorium here to hear author/director/activist Michael Moore.
100,000 demand No war at home or abroad
WASHINGTON – Pennsylvania Avenue became a river of humanity April 20 as nearly 100,000 chanting demonstrators marched from the Washington Monument to the Capitol Building demanding an end to the Bush administration’s “war at home and abroad.”
International Notes
S. Korean civic groups protest base/Millions of Italian workers strike/Japanese group calls for ban on nuclear arms/Hungarian elections offer chance for change/Cubans to help train South African teachers/Russian oil workers strike
Saving the children: the fight for pediatric AIDS funding
When Ariel Glaser died of AIDS at age 8 in 1988 no testing was being done on drugs to treat children with AIDS. None.
We can defeat the ultra-right in Nov.
As thousands pour into Washington on April 20, a huge fight is shaping up to defeat President Bush’s extreme-right wing corporate agenda in November’s elections. At stake is control of the House and Senate and 22 governorships. It is a fight that can and must be won.
Another world is possible, but what is it called?
When Frederick Engels wrote Socialism: Scientific and Utopian, some 130 years ago, he said Marx uncovered two “secrets” that catapulted the years of human yearning for a just, equal and democratic world from wishful thinking into the realm of material existence and science.
Students reflect hope,despair
Le Blanc, along with other members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation delegation, will be meeting with a number of different groups from both Israeli and Palestinian societies. The following is based on a their first exchange with university students.
Thousands march to Jenin
TEL AVIV – Several thousand Israelis, Jews and Arabs marched April 13 from the Meggiddo highway intersection in northern Israel towards the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.
45 Colombian unionists killed this year
Last Wednesday, paramilitaries dragged Alfredo Zapata Herrera, a leader of the SUTIMAC trade union, off a bus while on his way to work. The next day he was found dead nearby. He was the 45th trade unionist assassinated so far this year while a further ten have disappeared.
How exciting it is to be changing the world!
The Women’s Equality Summit and Congressional Action Day, April 8-9, showed the women’s movement stepping up to the plate as part of the growing movement fighting for economic, social and political justice.
