Tyre, Under Siege
A poem.
Poet Sanchez to be missed
SAN ANTONIO — Chicano activist and poet Trinidad Sanchez Jr. passed away at age 63 on July 30 as a consequence of two strokes suffered 12 days earlier. Sanchez was best known for his poem “Why Am I So Brown?” and the collection of poems bearing its title
Where are those oil profits going? Corporate greed
'It’s a blowout.” No, silly — not the tire on your car. “It’s a blowout,” said a Wall Street money expert about Exxon Mobil’s second- quarter oil profits.
Neighbors challenge bio research lab
BOSTON — Opponents of a proposed bioterrorism research laboratory at Boston University Medical Center won a victory last week when a state judge ruled that the basis used to approve the so-called Biolab was “arbitrary and capricious.”
AFL-CIO to target 200 races
CHICAGO (PAI) — The AFL-CIO is putting money and, more importantly, people into 200 political races this fall, including “every statewide U.S. Senate and governor’s race,” federation Political Director Karen Ackerman say
Failing soldiers at home, too
A multi-million-dollar settlement this month between the federal government and American Amicable Life Insurance Company glaringly demonstrates that Secretary Rumsfeld failed to protect soldiers on the home front, too.
WORLD NOTES
China: Wal-Marts to be union shops Chile: Workers strike at major copper mine South Africa: Women commemorate historic march Sweden: Emergency closes nuclear plants Venezuela: Opposition unifies behind Zulia governor
Partial recount in Mexico reveals more fraud
MEXICO CITY — Strengthening popular demands for a vote recount to rule out election fraud, a partial recount ordered by Mexico’s Federal Electoral Tribunal last week uncovered evidence of widespread irregularities.
Justice Dept. exonerates FBI in Puerto Rico killing
People from different sectors of Puerto Rican society are criticizing a report issued last week by the inspector general of the Justice Department, that absolves the Federal Bureau of Investigation of any wrongdoing in the killing of independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios.
