NOW pickets Bush workfare scam
WASHINGTON – Women with a banner that read “Every mother is a working mother” picketed on Capitol Hill June 17 to demand that the Senate reject George W. Bush’s punitive 40-hour “workfare” scheme and instead enact welfare reform that moves mothers out of poverty with educational opportunity and decent jobs.
International notes
Spanish workers poised for general strike/Czech communists make gains in elections/Nigerian Labor sets warning strike/German construction workers strike/ICEM demands end to killing of Colombian unionists/S. Korean Hyundai workers strike
'Eyewitness to Occupation' events
“This is just what we need to be doing,” was the reaction of many of the participants in two Connecticut “Eyewitness to Occupation” events featuring remarks by Judith Le Blanc following her two-week fact-finding tour as part of a delegation of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Manhattan public access TV elects new chairman of board
NEW YORK – The Board of Directors of Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN), the recently expanded public access cable television network, has elected one of New York City’s most active advocate journalists, Donald Suggs, as its new chair. A former senior editor at The Village Voice and a long-time freelance reporter published in The New York Times, Suggs replaces Larian Angelo, budget director for the New York City Council, who stepped down this month.
Jacobs Ladder a timely film
Jacob’s Ladder is an anti-war film released in 1990, a month before the start of the Gulf War. It’s about life and death, love and humanity, but the studio promoted it as a horror movie. It came and went in an instant but many consider it among cinema’s most memorable films.
Lawyer challenges detention
Attorney Donna R. Newman announced June 11 that she will challenge the detention of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen who is being held by the Justice Department without criminal charges as a suspect in a “bomb plot.”
Protests to meet Mayors' Conference
MADISON – The United States Conference of Mayors will be here shortly. Banners announcing their 70th annual convention adorn street signs in the vicinity of the capitol, and veteran protester Ben Masel appeared on local television a few nights ago announcing a compromise with the Mayor and Police Chief concerning the size of the protest-free zone around the event.
The U.S. role in the Venezuelan coup
When the coup took place in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 11, the usurper of the U.S. Presidency, George W. Bush, had his press agent, Ari Fleischer, state, “Chavez brought it on himself.”
A measure of the man Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould, a world-renowned scientist whose life bridged humanity, science and social involvement, died in May of lung cancer at age 60.
Juneteenth celebrates emancipation
“Juneteenth,” June 19, is the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery in the U.S. On June 19, 1865, Union General Granger and his regiment arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation two and a half years after it was issued.
