NYU grad students major in class struggle: Teaching assistants maintain 6-month strike
NEW YORK — Several hundred unionists, students, teachers and elected officials turned out May 11 to support New York University graduate teaching assistants, represented by GSOC/UAW Local 2110, who have been on strike for six months.
WORLDNOTES
Venezuela: Land returned to peasants; Kenya: Lobbyists debate quest for oil; Iran: Victory for Saqez labor activists; Greece: Anti-globalization forum; Japan: Voters oppose U.S. military expansion; Ecuador: Contract with Occidental annulled
Left posts gains in regional Indian elections
TRIVANDRUM, Kerala, India — Communist-led electoral coalitions registered substantial gains in two Indian states and several other regions this month in a development that observers say will have national repercussions.
Charges of lavish wealth rubbish
Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks during the Cuban television program “Round Table” in Havana, May 15, where he called a Forbes magazine report naming him one of the world’s wealthiest rulers “rubbish.”
Cuba elected to new UN rights council
To the dismay of the Bush administration and its European Union allies, the UN General Assembly endorsed Cuba’s nomination to the newly created UN Council on Human Rights on May 9.
Jeb Bush abandons Harris
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Republican Gov. Jeb Bush has publicly abandoned Rep. Katherine Harris, stating she could not possibly defeat incumbent Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson in November
NATIONALCLIPS
WASHINGTON: Families say ‘protect miners’ lives’ PITTSBURGH: Moms demand ‘Bring ’em home’ MARYVILLE, Tenn.: Aluminum workers authorize strike DURHAM, N.C.: Three Duke lacrosse players indicted for rape Detroit: Immigration raid denounced
Puerto Ricans uneasy as schools, agencies reopen
While 100,000 public sector workers went back to work in Puerto Rico May 15 and 500,000 pupils returned to finish the last two weeks of school, Puerto Ricans have lost faith in the colonialist politicians, polls show.
Growing movement assails Bush torture policy
WASHINGTON — Two years after photographs exposed U.S. military personnel engaged in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, demands are rising that President Bush be held accountable for criminal abuses at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and secret CIA or Pentagon prisons around the world.
WHATSREALLYGOOD
YCL sets tone in convention program Students protest high gas prices Bush’s ‘punk ass crusade’
