High court upholds affirmative action
WASHINGTON – The grassroots movement that marched and rallied in defense of affirmative action over the last decade hailed the Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 decision, June 23, upholding race-conscious admissions programs at the University of Michigan (U-M) Law School. Wade Henderson, executive secretary of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), called it “a great victory for America.”
National Clips
SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Feed the hungry or the corporations? / BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Hungry? Fill out a 23-page form / HOPKINTON, Mass.: Cheney catches heat from the people / UPPER ST. CLAIR, Penn.: Homes and water before profits / McARTHUR, Ohio: Federal budget slashes youth jobs
National Clips
SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Feed the hungry or the corporations? / BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Hungry? Fill out a 23-page form / HOPKINTON, Mass.: Cheney catches heat from the people / UPPER ST. CLAIR, Penn.: Homes and water before profits / McARTHUR, Ohio: Federal budget slashes youth jobs
National Clips
SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Feed the hungry or the corporations? / BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Hungry? Fill out a 23-page form / HOPKINTON, Mass.: Cheney catches heat from the people / UPPER ST. CLAIR, Penn.: Homes and water before profits / McARTHUR, Ohio: Federal budget slashes youth jobs
The roots of Pride Month
This week marks the end of June – Pride Month – the commemoration of the Stonewall Rebellion and the celebration of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) community.
Weikko Jarvi quiet working class hero
Over 100 people gathered in Superior, Wisc. June 1 to pay respects and celebrate the life of Weikko Jarvi, who was described at the service as “a quiet, working class hero.” He died May 29 after a lengthy illness.
Review roundup
Book review: Capitalist haircut Movie Review: Suppose you knew? Music Review: A clear bold call to the sleeping giant
Looking for truth in all the wrong places
What is true? This is the question troubling Rose, the main character in the Jules Feiffer play, A Bad Friend, which opened June 9 at New York City’s Lincoln Center Theater.
Howard B. Silverberg: Fighter for peace and equality
BALTIMORE, Md. – Howard B. Silverberg was remembered at a memorial here June 1 as a giant of a man with big hands and big feet. But his niece, Ruth Caley, told the crowd, that “biggest of all was his heart,” never so true as when he was standing up for working people, the poor and the oppressed.
Making a movie against all odds
Review The Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America, by James L. Lorence, University of New Mexico Press, 256 pp, $21.95 To many older progressives, activists, union organizers, socialists and communists, the story of how the movie Salt of the Earth came to be, its production and blacklisting, is a cherished something to be told and re-told.
