Campaign energy will continue in Minnesota
TWIN CITIES, Minn. – “If the election is lost today, we’ll still grieve for Paul and the movement. We’ll have to collect ourselves. Someone will rise up and we will rebuild. The energy today will help through the process, “St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly President Sharyle Knutsen told the World Nov. 5.
Union, ACLU slam repressive homeland bill
Bobby L. Harnage, president of the 600,000-member American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), denounced a so-called “compromise” version of George W. Bush’s Homeland Security bill as a “Trojan Horse” that would destroy union rights for 170,000 federal workers in the new agency.
Protesters fight corporate rule
CHICAGO – Defying intimidating police presence, 2,500 demonstrators protested a meeting of the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) here, Nov. 7. The spirited rush hour march through the Downtown Loop took place just two days after the Republican takeover of the Congress and showed there will be no let-up in the fight for worker’s rights, peace and environmental justice.
Iraq okays UN terms, Bush pushes war
Iraq has accepted a United Nations Security Council Resolution giving weapons inspectors sweeping new rights but allows many pretexts for the Bush administration to provoke a war. The resolution warns Iraq of “serious consequences” if it doesn’t comply – and the White House has made clear that anything it defines as a material breach will almost certainly mean a new war.
Peoples campaign is a winning strategy
News Analysis TUCSON – A model peoples’ campaign in Southern Arizona swept Raul Grijalva into Congress and helped elect Democrats Janet Napolitano as governor and Terry Goddard as attorney general.
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More election successes for Czech communists
PRAGUE – The Czech Communists won an extra 1,300 seats in the Nov. 1 elections to village, town and city councils, party vice-chair Zuzka Rujbrova announced last week. She said the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (CPBM) was one of the few parliamentary parties to improve its position and it had also 'significantly strengthened its position' in the biggest towns.
Chilean communists hold 22nd Congress
The following is based on a story from the Communist Party of Chile’s newspaper, El Siglo.
New trial sought for Cuban five
In a phone press conference, Nov. 12, Leonard Weinglass, attorney for Cuban Five defendant Antonio Guerrero, announced that he filed a motion in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida seeking a new trial. Weinglass expressed optimism that the motion would lead to the eventual release of all of the Five.
Green campaign for Pa. governor led the way on issues
Michael Morrill, Green Party candidate for Pennsylvania governor, made a difference in the Nov. 5 election although he received only 1 percent of the vote. Morrill won 38,080 votes in spite of being ignored by the media, having inexperienced organizers, and lacking funds and name recognition.
