National Clips
International monitors for U.S. elections / BOSTON: Turning up the heat for peace / TUCSON, Ariz.: Food not bombs / AFL-CIO Day of Action at Wal-Mart / AFL-CIO Day of Action at Wal-Mart / AUSTIN, Tex: Racial profiling
Some pocket change for the Fund Drive
Being on a limited Social Security income, writing a check for the fund drive is a difficult matter. So this is my approach: At the end of the day I take some of my pocket change and empty it into a piggy bank. Towards the end of the Fund Drive I roll up the change and give it to the PWW.
Philly banquet honors student groups
PHILADELPHIA – An enthusiastic crowd gathered here Oct. 27 for the annual People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo Banquet. This year two public school student organizations were honored: Philadelphia Student Union and Youth United for Change.
Tom Pettys latest
CD Review The Last DJ, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Warner Brothers, 2002
Skiffle musician inspired Lennon
LONDON (AP) – Lonnie Donegan, a musician whose “skiffle” sound inspired John Lennon and Pete Townshend to learn to play guitar, died Nov. 3 in England at age 71.
Hollywood Reds painted the town
Book Review Radical Hollywood – The Untold Story Behind America’s Favorite Movies! by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner, New Press, 2002, 460 pp
Global warming and the West Nile virus
Drought and high temperatures don’t just threaten our water supplies and crops. They may help to spread disease. The recent outbreaks of West Nile virus across the United States in the midst of the past summer’s drought are a preview of how a changing climate could threaten our health.
Rehabilitating our prisons
In most aspects of our lives we believe in rehabilitation: all people are capable of improvement. But in our nation’s prison system, generally, attempts at rehabilitation are only made in two major classes of offenders: drug addicts and juvenile offenders.
Coming soon medieval medicine for women
When George W. Bush started pushing his “faith-based” initiatives for the federal government during his election campaign, most folks assumed he meant allowing churches to join traditional charities in providing services to the poor. This made a lot of people in and out of churches nervous – would a down-and-outer have to listen to a government-sponsored sermon before he could get a nightly meal or a place to sleep?
Disaster in the farm belt natural and political
Folks in rural America have been hit hard by two very different kinds of slow-moving disasters over the last two years.
