Ashcrofts guidelines threaten Bill of Rights
Attorney General John Ashcroft has just issued new guidelines for FBI surveillance and investigations, which threaten to take us back to the days of J.Edgar Hoover. He has now virtually given absolute power to FBI field office directors to investigate anybody and everybody at their own discretion.
RadFest 2002
WILLIAMS BAY, Wisc. – Here on the rustic lakeshore George Williams-Lake Geneva campus of Aurora University, about 235 scholars and activists came together May 31 to June 2 for RadFest 2002. The event is the latest in a series of annual gatherings that have been held throughout Wisconsin.
A lively workshop at RadFest
One RadFest workshop that drew the lively participation of about 30 activists was the panel on “Socialism in Cuba” featuring John Gilman.
March for detainees
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Hundreds of demonstrators attended a rally on Coney Island Avenue and Newkirk Ave. here June 9 to demand the release of detainees being held under the USA Patriot Act. The rally was organized by a coalition of Arab-American groups.
Student-worker coalition scores victory at Stanford
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Victory! After a three-night sleep-out in front of the Stanford University president’s office, over 100 students joined campus workers at midnight May 31 to celebrate huge gains won by employees of Bon Appetit, an outside company that owns restaurants in the campus student union.
Unemployment by the numbers
Thousands of workers laid off immediately after Sept. 11 have lost their unemployment benefits, exhausting the 13- week extension that was passed in March. But the big corporations are still collecting the tax cuts that Congress gave them as part of the unemployment extension package.
Board tackles health care, globalization
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Jobs with Justice held its first Workers Rights Board hearing here June 8 at the Ethical Society of St. Louis. It was entitled “St. Louis Confronts the Recession” and was co-sponsored by the Ethical Action Committee and the Institute for Policy Studies.
Poverty + unemployment finances = TB
New York is lucky, in a sense. The newly appointed Commissioner for Health, Dr. Thomas Frieden, was the senior public health physician in charge of fighting the Tuberculosis (TB) epidemic that gripped New York in 1991 and 1992 during the days of the administration of Bush the First. At that time the city’s Department of Health required a federal grant to pay for his services
Chicagos Puerto Rican community: On the front line of the housing struggle
Chicago’s Puerto Rican community, overwhelmingly working-class and 130,000 strong, is concentrated in several neighborhoods on the Northwest Side of the city. All are major battlegrounds in today’s struggle to preserve and expand affordable housing.
Bush maneuvers in the Mideast
As President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Sharon met in Washington, D.C., last week, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) reoccupied Ramallah with a shoot-to-kill curfew, forcing the Palestinian Authority (PA) to cancel the first meeting of its new cabinet.
