The birth of a new peace movement
When I arrived at the meeting place uptown, it was still dark. There were several people lined up or sitting on benches at 125th Street in Harlem – older folks of color, children in strollers. I approached the corner, video camera on my back, feeling the strange combination of simultaneous excitement and exhaustion. For the entire article, click on the headline. To see another page of images and articles from A20, click here.
Enron memos expose $ 30 billion scam
WASHINGTON – On May 6, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released internal documents revealing how Enron created phantom shortages in California’s unregulated electricity market to fleece ratepayers of an estimated $30 billion during the 2001 energy crisis. For the entire article, click on the headline. To view a related page from the California Public Utilities Commission, click here.
Composer joins hands with St. Lukes chamber ensemble
NEW YORK – On Saturday, June 1 at 2 p.m., Daniel Bernard Roumain, nationally known classical composer, premieres his not-so-traditional collaboration with the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble in Chelsea at The Dia Center for the Arts (548 West 22 Street).
New exhibits opening in New York
NEW YORK – If you’re planning on being in New York City anytime this summer, there are several art and photography exhibitions that you won’t want to miss.
Speakers say Israel and Palestine both in crisis
CHICAGO – “I was witness to an enormous human crisis,” World correspondent Judith Le Blanc told a gathering here May 3. Le Blanc had just returned from the West Bank, Gaza and Israel. The Israeli military occupation is “a living nightmare” for both Israelis and Palestinians, she said, and a political solution is required.
Workers and poor pay for occupation terror
TEL AVIV – The so-called “War on Palestinian Terror” costs mountains of money. The Israeli economy is in tatters and the Palestinian economy is virtually destroyed. The increase in unemployment is unprecedented.
2.7 million German metalworkers hit the bricks
Sixty thousand German autoworkers stayed home May 6 as IG Metall, the country’s largest and most powerful union, with 2.7 million members, launched the first wave of a series of “flexible” strikes that will move from company to company through the country’s industrial heartland in coming days. For the entire article, click on the headline. For more information, visit the homepage of The German International Mine Workers' Federation.
Hi, Mom, its me, Jimmy ...
Many of us use the telephone for e-mail correspondence; I can contact a brother in Iowa, a sister in Japan and as many others as I might want to reach – even my editor in Chicago – all for a little over 10 cents.
We come for peace
Remarks to April 20 peace rally in Washington, D.C.
The human face of child care
There is a childcare center in Washington, D.C., where parents have to provide basic resources like soap, tissues and crayons. Children there take a daily walk along busy city streets because there is no play area and no better way for them to get fresh air.
