National Clips
Petoskey, Mich.:Nurses demand respect, patient care / Tucson, Ariz.:Retirees rally to save Medicare / Patterson, N.J.:Hunger striker in critical condition
Tucson protests Bush visit
TUCSON, Ariz. – Over 1,700 spirited demonstrators greeted President George W. Bush when he arrived for a brief visit to the area on Aug. 11. Bush came to Tucson to push the administration’s misnamed “Healthy Forest Initiative,” a measure that would serve the interests of the logging industry in the name of fire protection.
Bush lies, who dies?
* Demand an independent investigation of Bush’s lies * Grassroots Congressional Action Days, Aug. 25-29
Leaders urge no vote on Prop. 54
LOS ANGELES – Civil rights leaders and public officials announced their opposition to Proposition 54 at an Aug. 12 press conference on the steps of City Hall here.
Vets in same boat as injured workers
Sick and injured war veterans and victims of industrial workplace accidents have a lot in common. Both are treated disgracefully.
The Office of Tax Propaganda
The honesty-impaired Bush administration does not limit its deception to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. When it comes to taxes, the spin starts when they call their program the “Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Act of 2003.”
National Clips
ANNISTON, Ala.:‘Stop burning of chemical weapons’ / BRADENTON, Fla.:Harris confiscates seniors’ drug leaflets / ASHEVILLE, N.C.: Union victory over Verizon / WASHINGTON, D.C.:Stockade nation / ROCKFORD, Mich.: Wolverine threatens to boot jobs abroad
AFL-CIO 2004 election plans
CHICAGO – The City of Big Shoulders was an appropriate place for the mid-year AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting Aug. 5-6. Here organized labor, deliberately and with little fanfare, began the heavy lifting of coordinating and mobilizing the nation’s working families to stop the corporate onslaught against the American people’s standard of living and democratic rights in the 2004 elections.
Texans are getting fired up!
When Texas progressives gather together they often complain. And yet, at a recent Dallas meeting of the North Texas Friends of the People’s Weekly World, participants couldn’t help but note a number of positive developments in the state.
The Thrill and the Agony
Royals jack up the Sox, 13-9 At the All-Star Break in mid-July, the Kansas City Royals were seven games ahead of the Chicago White Sox in the race for first place of the American League Central Division. But over a series at the end of the month, the Royals extended a special hospitality to the visiting White Sox, allowing them over 30 total runs in three games and to sweep the series.
