Another world is possible
On Jan. 31, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney warned the World Economic Forum (WEF) that working people had come to the group’s annual meeting, held Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, to “challenge Enron economics at home and abroad” and warned that the anti-globalization movement is not going to go away. Visit the AFL-CIO for more speeches by Sweeney, as well as much more information on the U.S. labor movement.
20,000 tell world forum people before profits
NEW YORK – Over 20,000 peaceful protestors converged on the Waldorf-Astoria hotel here last weekend to protest the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting being held there. To visit two websites with more information, click Another World is Possible or the World Social Forum.
CAMP soups up fundraising
ST. LOUIS – The Community Arts and Media Project (CAMP) held a “Soup-Er Bowl Party” Jan. 27 to raise funds for a building it hopes to purchase here.
Does Nickelodeon really care for kids?
LOS ANGELES – During the holiday season parents searched for movies appropriate for their children, and Hollywood studios spent millions of dollars to capture that young audience.
International Notes
Japanese peace group asks for anti-nuke messages/Asylum seekers protest Australia’s anti-refugee policy/South Africans to act in support of Swaziland political prisoners/U.N. says war endangers world’s mountain ranges
CPs declare solidarity with Palestinian people
ATHENS – Meeting here last weekend, representatives of Communist and workers parties of the southern and eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf and Red Sea regions reiterated their solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Americans and Afghans grieve together
KABUL, Afghanistan – Coming together in common grief, a group of Americans who lost relatives in the Sept. 11 terror attacks on Jan. 16 visited three Afghan children whose mother was killed in an errant U.S. airstrike.
Israeli public opinion: Something has changed
TEL AVIV – Awareness is growing among the Israeli public about the serious dangers caused by Sharon’s policies and actions against the Palestinians, and new opposition to it can be seen. The media are increasingly reporting facts about which they had previously kept silent.
Students oppose tuition hikes
CHICAGO – Deep funding cuts aimed at solving the Illinois state budget crisis will wallop students in the University of Illinois (U of I) system. Republican Gov. George Ryan has cut $34 million in funds allocated to the university this year to close a $500-million budget gap resulting from the deepening economic recession.
Break the silence on civilian deaths
The capitalist press has been shy about revealing the toll the “War on Terrorism” has exacted on the innocent in Afghanistan. Those residing in the U.S. are not being told about the devastation that U.S. bombs are raining down upon innocent civilians.
