Corporations have their own press, the people need theirs
There are six more weeks left for the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo fund drive. Thus far, contributions from 43 states totaling $83,716 have come in from readers who say, “Yes!” to the PWW’s coverage of the people’s struggles.
Diddy runs the City
The Thrill and the Agony This week in sports by Chas Walker
Blame profits, not workers, for high health costs
The issue of corporate greed in health care is beginning to make its way into the mass media, thanks in good part to the blatant price-gouging of the pharmaceutical companies.
Arizona: Grassroots can beat big bucks
TUCSON, Ariz. – It is going to take a massive grassroots effort to vanquish the millions and millions of dollars flooding the coffers of the Bush campaign from corporate America, the defense industry, the prison industry, and every other mega-corporation that reaps benefits from donating to Bush.
National Clips
MACON, Ga.: Tobacco merger to destroy 14,000 jobs / MIAMI: U.S. gov’t prosecuting Greenpeace / CHEYENNE, Wyo.: FedEx guilty of sexual harassment / MILWAUKEE, Wis.: Methodists protest Cuba travel restrictions
Canadian health care expert on tour
Doug Allan, a Toronto-based trade union health care researcher and health coalition organizer, will be speaking on “Lessons from Canada’s Public Health Care System” in a series of three events in the eastern United States this week.
