Hurricane survivors tell their stories
HOUSTON — As I drove to the Astrodome, Sept. 3, I got caught in a major traffic jam caused by an outpouring of working-class people who wanted to help the survivors of Hurricane Katrina on this Labor Day weekend.
Experts call Bush presidency worst disaster in nations history
Four and a half years after he was first sworn in as president, experts in the field of disaster assessment today called the presidency of George W. Bush the worst disaster in the history of the United States of America.
Cuba offers assistance
On Aug. 30, as news of the public health disaster in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina emerged, the socialist country of Cuba, which has extensive experience dealing with hurricane disasters, offered to send medical assistance. The Bush administration never responded to the offer.
In New York City elections: Protect the peoples interests: Dump Bloomberg
Mayor Bloomberg is a billionaire businessman, and as the saying goes, the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree — though in this case I’m referring not to his children, but to his policies. This mayor has so much cash that in the first two months of the campaign he spent more than all of the other candidates combined. Did we ever have grounds for thinking he would be on the side of working people?
World Notes
Argentina: Museum displays effects of foreign debt; Britain: Gate Gourmet won’t take back ‘militants’; China: 7,000 coal mines to close in safety crackdown; Iraq: Protest gov’t anti-union crackdown; Tonga: Public workers’ strike continues
Venezuelas land reform challenges elite
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, signing new land reform decrees last January, declared, “The war against the large estates is the essence of the Bolivarian Revolution. It’s land for the campesinos, land for the ones who work the land!”
National Clips
SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Legislature passes Wal-Mart Accountability Act; CLAIRTON, Penn.: Steelworkers fight forced overtime; SAN FRANCISCO: Police arrest hotel workers; DETROIT: Motor City supports Northwest mechanics; PITTSBURGH: Workers demand boost in minimum wage
Rising fuel costs alarm Kentuckys workers
OWENSBORO, Ky. — As residents of Daviess County watched in horror as Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, they had no way of knowing how quickly they would also feel the impact of this disastrous storm — not in the form of tempests and gale-force winds, but in the form of rising gas prices.
CPUSA demands federal support for Katrina survivors
The Communist Party USA reacted with outrage and sorrow to the tragedy inflicted on the people of the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina, a tragedy compounded by what it called the “slow motion” response of the federal government.
NYU grad students demand fair contract
NEW YORK — AFL-CIO President John Sweeney was arrested along with over 80 others, including top labor leaders, elected officials and rank-and-file activists, in a civil disobedience action Aug. 31 supporting GSOC/UAW Local 2110, the graduate student workers’ union battling New York University for a contract.
