National Clips
CINCINNATI: No more empty promises / HARTFORD, Conn.: Corrupt Republican governor resigns / AUSTIN, Texas: Juneteenth parade and new lawsuit on police brutality / PHILADELPHIA, Miss.: Honoring civil rights workers
Pride month events keep eye on November
In the 35 years since the Stonewall uprising, the gay, lesbian, bisexual and trangendered (GLBT) movement has come a long way. As with each June, this year’s pride celebrations mark the anniversary of the historic 1969 event in New York’s Greenwich Village.
Georgias Black farmers truck melons north
HARVEY, Ill. – African American farmers drove a truckload of watermelons, cantaloupes, peaches, tomatoes, collard greens and sweet corn from their farms in Georgia to a farmers market in this predominantly Black and Latino community Saturday, June 19.
Diplomats and commanders reject Bush
George W. Bush is pleading for a second term based on his record as a “war president” who uses military force to wipe out terrorists before they strike again. But that aggressive posture is now stirring powerful opposition from former senior officials, military officers, and legal scholars. click here for Spanish text
Some people still dont want you to see my movie...
The following is excerpted from a recent letter from Michael Moore, director of “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
War on workers and war on Iraq
NEW YORK (PAI) – Want ultimate evidence that U.S. companies wage war on workers while the U.S. wages war in Iraq? Listen to reporters at the Wall Street Journal.
Fox News censured
LONDON – Fox News has been strongly criticized by the media watchdog Ofcom over a program in which it accused the BBC of lying and of adopting a “frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Americanism.”
Saved is a godsend
Movie Review With George W. Bush’s picture in the classroom larger than the U.S. wall map, would be and a 40-something principal of the Eagle Christian Academy who uses the word “gangsta,” you know you’re either in for a real treat or a bad groan in the film, “Saved.”
New documentary indicts death penalty
Review “Deadline” is a new documentary film about the events that led up to Illinois Governor George Ryan’s decision to grant clemency to everybody on this state’s death row, just before he left office in 2003. It has a powerful message: The death penalty must be abolished in this country, before more innocent people are executed.
Those who cannot remember the past ...
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. So said philosopher George Santayana in 1905 in his treatise, “The Life of Reason.”
