Corporate crime goes unpunished in Bhopal
NEW DELHI – It started in the middle of the night on Dec. 2, 1984. That was the fateful night when poisonous methyl isocyanate (MIC) spread as a deadly blanket over the city from the rusty big tanks of Union Carbide India, Ltd. (UCIL), a subsidiary of Union Carbide Inc. During that night, about 50 tons of MIC from UCIL’s pesticide factory in Bhopal, leaked into the surroundings.
Cleveland: Put miners back to work!
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland City Council, at its Sept. 9 meeting, unanimously passed a resolution demanding that “Cargill Deicing Technology restore former strikers to their rightful jobs”, and urging “the Mayor of the City of Cleveland to refrain from buying Cargill salt until the former strikers return to their jobs.”
Longshore workers find more support
SEATTLE – On August 27, Governor Gary Locke sent a letter to President Bush to help keep federal troops off the docks and out of the longshore labor dispute happening on the West Coast.
9/11: Mourn the dead, organize for the living
News Analysis The first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks was marked by vigils, rallies, marches and memorial services. But those who live and work in lower Manhattan – as well as the 30,000 workers who cleaned the World Trade Center (WTC) site – have many unanswered concerns and questions about their health and environment.
Vieques protests continue as bombing resumes
Commentary If the U.S. Navy thought that, in the aftermath of Sept. 11 and the USA Patriot Act, the people of Puerto Rico would curtail their protests and acts of civil disobedience against the military maneuvers in Vieques, they were sadly mistaken.
Ashcroft slammed at door of justice
WASHINGTON – Civil liberties, civil rights, labor, women’s equality and environmental groups were set to rally outside the U.S. Department of Justice Sept. 13 to protest the sweeping attacks on the Bill of Rights imposed by Attorney General John Ashcroft behind “closed doors.”
Campaign demands immigration reform
A broad nationwide grassroots coalition of labor, ethnic, religious and community groups is working to collect signatures on a million postcards demanding immigration policies that allow undocumented immigrants in the United States to earn legal status.
Louisvillians protest Bush visit
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A day after President Bush conceded he might seek Congressional approval for his war on Iraq, over 400 Louisville protesters made it clear that Bush did not have their consent, nor would they be silent in their disagreement.
Panel hears racial profiling cases
Racial profiling and other acts of discrimination came to the surface in Naugatuck, Conn., on August 29. Speaker after speaker told an NAACP-led panel that African Americans live in fear of the police here. One citizen said her relatives from out of town refuse to visit here because of the racial profiling notoriously connected to the Naugatuck Police Department.
Illinois AFL-CIO sets election goals
OAK PARK, Ill. – Labor 2002, the AFL-CIO campaign to elect worker-friendly candidates in this year’s election, rolled into the western suburbs of Chicago on Sept. 6.
