Ireland agreement under fire
The Ulster Unionist Council’s decision to bow before the party’s rejectionist wing and fire a missile into the heart of the 1998 British-Irish Good Friday agreement, while disappointing for supporters of the deal, can hardly be said to have come as a surprise.
The costs of war
Back when the first Gulf War was being debated, I gave a speech at an anti-war rally in Charleston, Illinois. A university student interrupted to heckle. I stopped and looked at him: “You look like you could carry a gun. If you think this war is such a great idea, why don’t you sign up for it?” He didn’t have an answer. But it wasn’t merely a rhetorical question.
World War II vet testifies against Bushs Iraq war
The following are excerpts from remarks to a town hall meeting at the Wisconsin State Capitol on Sept. 30. Gilman, a highly decorated U.S. Army veteran, began his remarks by explaining his experiences in World War II, where he participated in the Allied offensive against Hitler two days before D-Day, and experienced first-hand the inhumanity of war.
The battle for New Jersey
New Jersey voters had good news last week. The good news was that Robert Torricelli, one of the worst Democratic Senators in the Northeast, had dropped his reelection bid. Besides having a record of aggressively supporting the Reagan contra war against the people of Nicaragua, Torricelli was hopelessly compromised by a corruption scandal that doomed him to defeat.
The upside-down world of Baby Boy Bush
Bush the Younger needs some elementary grammar lessons. Words such as “may,” “possibly,” “could,” “might,” “suspect,” are all conditional words, indicating some uncertainty or lack of proof for whatever is being asserted. For example, when he says, “Iraq may have certain weapons of mass destruction,” that indicates a less than complete knowledge. It betrays a willingness to guess. Needless to say, guessing isn’t conviction.
Rally calls for extension of benefits
PHILADELPHIA – Unemployed workers and their supporters rallied here Oct. 4 to call for the extension of the federal Temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation (TEUC) Program, which will expire Dec. 31.
September jobless rate at 5.6 percent
Reprint The nation’s jobless rate was 5.6 percent in September, the Labor Department said, dropping 0.1 percent.
Civil disobedience supports Yale workers
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Eight hundred people filed out of the Center Church here, and lined up on College Street at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 26. Facing them on the sidewalk were 2,000 supporters. Downtown traffic came to a halt.
Crowd hails McDermott anti-war stand
SEATTLE – A standing-room-only audience gave Rep. Jim McDermott many hearty rounds of applause as he called for putting “a million people in the street” to stop a U.S. attack on Iraq. “We’re here because we’re engaged in a national debate about life and death,” McDermott (D-Wash.) told the crowd who came to the Jefferson Park Community Center here Oct. 6 to hear his report on his recent visit to Iraq.
NOW president speaks on elections, peace
NEW YORK – Kim Gandy, National Organization for Women (NOW) president, spoke here Oct. 3, at New York University, before a standing-room-only crowd of about 200 people. Her speech, on the importance of feminism in today’s world, covered the topics of women’s rights, peace and the importance of the upcoming elections.
