Justice for detainees in interest of labor
The following is a speech given by Gary Goff at the “New York City Labor in Solidarity with Immigrant Detainees” demonstration in Brooklyn, New York on March 23.
The vigilant struggle to free Mumia continues
If the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal and those fighting against the death penalty are willingly paying the price of freedom.
Court rules against immigrant workers
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 March 27 that an undocumented worker fired for union activity has no recourse to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to get monetary compensation in the form of back pay. For the entire article, click on the headline. To read the press release from the AFL-CIO on this subject, click here.
Just what is the Carlyle Group?
The name “Carlyle Group” has been cropping up a lot lately in news stories in connection with arms deals and the powerful interests involved in making those deals. But little is known about the group – who is in it, how does it operate and what does it have to do with the lives of ordinary people?
Edison is not the solution
The following is testimony delivered to the Philadelphia School Reform Commission on March 26.
Town Hall meet focuses on welfare reform
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – “When the President is planning to increase the work requirement from 32 hours to 40 hours, he better also provide funding for child care,” Lissette Martinez told a Town Hall Meeting on Welfare Rights here last week to loud applause. “Otherwise, his policies will tear our families apart.”
Im not a woman, Im a hell-raiser
A leader, according to one woman, is a hell-raiser. By that definition, the poor Irish woman born Mary Harris, who became the childless widow Mary Jones, then self-transformed into the organizer Mother Jones, was just that – a leader. For the entire article, click on the headline. To read some quotes by Mother Jones, click here.
Answer to violence: co-existence
WASHINGTON – It was a long stride toward peace and justice in the Middle East when the Arab League voted unanimously Mar. 28 for the Saudi peace plan based upon Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories and creation of a Palestinian state in exchange for Arab recognition of Israel within her 1967 borders.
Support for Haddad gets results
CHICAGO – Detroit Muslim cleric Rabbih Haddad is still in a jail in Chicago, as he has been for more than 100 days.
ACORN takes on predatory lending
BALTIMORE – Over 50 ACORN members from Baltimore, Washington, D.C. and Prince George’s County went to the State Capitol in Annapolis on Feb. 20 for a Feb. 22 hearing of the State House of Delegates.
