NATIONAL CLIPS
NEW ORLEANS: Marchers ‘mourn’ second term / SEATTLE: Students evict recruiters from campus / WASHINGTON: Push to bring troops home grows in House / ATLANTA: African Americans challenge Waffle House / HARRISBURG, Pa: Republicans cut unemployment benefits
Capitalism spreads HIV
OPINION It was New Year’s Eve and I was looking back over my favorite headlines of 2004 when I found what just might be the best one. It’s not that it’s a deeply moving Oprah-style human interest story, or laugh out loud knee-slappin’ funny. It is, actually, a very depressing report and forecast. But it is most telling.
Social Security snow job
OPINION Winter is here, and in keeping with the season the Republican White House is planning a carefully crafted campaign of obfuscation (i.e., a snow job!) in an effort to convince present and future retirees and the public in general that a “crisis” is looming with Social Security and changes need to be made.
Federal campaign laws undermine democracy
OPINION Over the past four years we have seen a broad progressive movement emerge on a grand scale. Although it did not stop Bush on Nov. 2, this relatively new movement was able to deliver at least a 49 percent vote against the ultra-right. Key components, including the AFL-CIO, NOW, the NAACP, and others, have already begun strategizing as to how to move forward.
NATIONAL CLIPS
DENVER, Colo.: Over 30,000 call for peace, justice, equality / GREENVILLE, S.C.: Struggle for King holiday continues / COLUMBUS, Ga.: 8,000 march to end police murders / COLUMBIA, S.C.: Fund public schools, no to privatization
40 years after Selma's Bloody Sunday
The struggle for voting rights continues Reps. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio), John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) defended the legacy of martyrs who died for voting rights when they blocked, for a few hours, Jan. 6, the certification of Ohio’s Electoral College votes to force a debate on the widespread vote suppression and irregularities on Nov. 2.
NATIONAL CLIPS
JONESBORO, Ga.: New sheriff cleans house / GREENSBORO, N.C.: Bush ally calls for troop withdrawal / PITTSBURGH: Tugboat workers killed / GRANITEVILLE, S.C.: Toxic train wreck kills 9
