L.A. mayors race could make history
LOS ANGELES — With less than a month to go before the May 17 vote in the heated mayoral runoff here, there are strong signs that City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa could become the city’s first Mexican American mayor since 1872.
U.S. seen as roadblock to ending nukes
NEW YORK — The Bush administration — not the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), Iran, or any other “rogue state” — is most responsible for the threat of nuclear proliferation, say organizers of the March and Rally for Peace in Iraq and Nuclear Disarmament Worldwide set for May 1 at the United Nations.
Communists launch online discussion
With a newly launched web site, the Communist Party USA is inviting broad discussion on how Americans can defeat the Bush agenda and build a bigger and stronger movement for peace, democracy, jobs and equality.
New industrial union pushes working-class power
LAS VEGAS — It was the fire from below that powered up the merger convention of the USWA and PACE, held here April 11-14. Five thousand workers, their families and guests shared stories of battles on picket lines and in battleground state polling places. Many conversations started with, “Let me tell you what that son of a Bush did in Ohio …” or Texas, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Indiana or Southern California.click here for Spanish text
Workers Memorial Day 2005: In Memory of Gary Puleio
Gary was killed on the job at a concrete plant on August 15, 2001. He had been employed there only three months as a cement truck driver and fell 25 feet to his death, from a cement tower, while shoveling gravel off the hopper to clean it.
Nuts and bolts of building the U.S. global empire
Have you ever wondered how the U.S. government and big business gained global power, the nuts and bolts of it? How they were able to bypass Congress in this effort?
U.S. military killing the witnesses
NEW YORK — José Couso, a Spanish journalist, died April 8, 2003, when an American tank fired on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. The hotel was housing 300 journalists, and was considered an oasis of safety in a city that had been under heavy bombardment since the war’s opening. Baghdad had become a sea of fire and Couso was there “to bear witness,” as his brother Javier put it at a recent event here.
When will Congress drop the Hammer?
Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas has again distinguished himself in his ability to use crass political manipulation in an attempt to distract the public from his compromised reputation. As I read the reports on his outrageous statements about the Terri Schiavo case, I could only ask, “What could he have been thinking of?”
Hope and horror at Red Lake
There’s an old Ojibwe saying: “Gego baapiineminaken gidaabinoojiiyug.” Never laugh at your children. That motto invokes a sacred Anishinaabe value: “manaaji’idiwin,” or deep respect. We are to respect others, no matter how young or weak or strange, in part because what goes around eventually comes around. This especially holds true for children. Not only because they have power — as elders will tell you, the only person who ever tricked the Trickster was a child — but also because that child will one day be an adult.
More billionaires, more poverty
Two magazine covers stood out in poignant contrast on newsstands recently. Forbes magazine released its 29th annual listing of the world’s billionaires. Time Magazine’s cover story wondered “How to End Poverty.”
