Together for Freedom: Pushing patriotism
The Department of Defense (DOD) is going full speed ahead in its efforts to establish pro-war propaganda organizations to target youth. One such organization is the Together for Freedom (TFF) campaign.
Welfare reform must build stronger families
When I first applied for welfare at 6 months pregnant, with little to no job experience, I was denied assistance due to the fact that I had $7 too much in my bank account. I married the father of my child. Even married with two incomes we were poor. My family qualified for food stamps and Medicaid.
Elections to be focus of CPUSA conference
NEW YORK – The Communist Party’s national conference on “Building the Party clubs and grassroots organizing,” will bring together nearly 200 delegates, representing local Party organizations from coast to coast. The conference will be held here June 28-30. For the entire article, click on the headline. For more information, visit the page on the conference at the Communist Party USA website.
County workers march
CHICAGO – Eight television trucks were lined up outside of the Cook County City Hall in Chicago’s Loop May 29 at 11:15 a.m. Fifteen minutes later, county workers were filling the sidewalks as they marched around the block-square building. For two hours the vigorous pickets, members of several local unions affiliated to District Council 31 of the State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) sang songs, the most heartfelt being the now familiar, “Everywhere we go/People want to know/Who we are/So we tell them/We are the unions/Mighty, mighty unions.”
Tunnel workers win
DETROIT – Speaking about the recent contract victory for locked-out Detroit Tunnel workers, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1564 President Don Mathis said, “The labor community, the labor movement is still active and alive.”
Lack of health access risk to nations health
The fact that more than 40 million U.S. citizens have no health insurance increases our country’s vulnerability to a bioterror attack, two public health experts have charged. For the entire article, click on the headline. To see the original article in Science Magazine by Dr. Wynia, click here.
Republicans buckle
Many health care activists blinked their eyes in disbelief when they read the lead sentence of a front page article of the June 1 New York Times: “The Bush administration told the Supreme Court that it should allow Maine to carry out a state law that tries to force drug companies to reduce the prices of prescription medicines sold in the state.”
AFL-CIO launches Voice@Work Month
The AFL-CIO has designated the month of June as “Voice@Work Month” and has launched a month-long campaign aimed at shining a spotlight on the struggles workers face when they try to form unions – and the need to reform the nation’s unfair labor laws.
ILO calls for lifting Israeli border closures
Juan Samavia, director general of the International Labor Organization (ILO), called the situation in the Occupied Territories of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip a “socio-economic meltdown” resulting from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the “deep humanitarian crisis that Palestinian families are living through.”
In the name of fighting terrorism
In a quick scan of the world, let’s look at what has happened in the name of “fighting terrorism.” The right-wing Israeli government is invading Palestinian lands, arresting thousands of Palestinians, forcing Palestinian children to go through military checkpoints and killing Palestinian people with U.S.-made bullets, rockets and bulldozers. None of which has made the Israeli people any safer or more secure.
