A day of theater to benefit PWW
The 2005 annual fund drive is underway and more than $20,000 has been collected. Plans are underway across the country to raise thousands more.
Rural Mississippi hung out to dry
A full 22 days after Katrina swept through the Gulf Coast, Robert Williams of Vancleave, Miss., is still waiting for a FEMA or a county truck — something. “I called FEMA, once the phones came back,” the 32-year-old church janitor told the Los Angeles Times. “They gave us a case number and said someone would be out as soon as possible. We have no idea when that will be.”
Make levees, not war: 300,000 marchers say End Iraq war
Protesters demand justice for hurricane survivors WASHINGTON — An estimated 300,000 antiwar demonstrators marched past the White House Sept. 24 chanting, “End the war now — Bring the troops home!” It was the mightiest peace outpouring since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
The legacy of Patricia Jonnie Lumpkin Ellis
Jonnie Lumpkin Ellis, known by her adopted name of “Pat,” died Aug. 29 in Chicago. Jonnie was one of 10 children. Her parents, Hattie and Elmo Lumpkin, raised their children to reject racism and ideas of “racial inferiority.” That took a lot of courage in the 1920s, since they lived in the orange groves of Orlando, Fla. Jonnie wanted to “change the system” but until she met the Communist Party, she was fighting alone.
Winter Soldier reveals grisly U.S. deeds in Vietnam
The Congressional Record from April 6-7, 1971, contains testimony taken in Detroit from Vietnam veterans. That testimony is the subject of “Winter Soldier,” a documentary that will get a one-week showing at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago and in more than 20 theaters across the U.S.
Missouri activists press for LGBT rights
ST. LOUIS — While Missouri was the first state to add a discriminatory amendment to its state constitution banning same-gender marriage, the Show-Me State’s LGBT community has not backed down and has recommitted itself to achieving full equality.
Egypt election a parody of the democratic process
For decades, some would say centuries, Egyptians have suffered under autocracy and have yearned for freedom’s sun to rise.
Len Levenson, 92, fighter for democracy
On Aug. 7 the world lost a fighter for peace and social justice. Leonard Levenson passed away at the age of 92 in New York City.
New Orleans
Everybody knew that it could happen/ The likelihood was clear/ The future was coming/ And now it’s here
August Wilson: A tribute before dying
We search for various media to give real voice to who we are, who we really are deep within our souls as part of a dominated and exploited class, as a people still suffering the depth and breath of national and racial oppression, and as human beings living in a hollow and dissatisfying society.
