LETTERS
Paul Robeson stamp. Peace doves fly to Crawford. Housing bubble (out)burst.
LABOR UPDATE
Conyers to speak at Boston hearing on health care crisis. Meet me in St. Louis. Break time at last. Steel solidarity.
Letters
Roberts not ‘mainstream’; Labor article jogged memory; Mubarak’s crimes; Inhumane and degrading; Maria Montelibre presente!; Cindy Sheehan, one honest woman; Bush in a hidey hole
Senate blocks military aid to Indonesia
The U.S. Senate voted last month to keep restrictions against financial aid and training for the Indonesian military.
Letters
Letters
Labor Update
Labor Update
Maria Montelibre, presente!
Maria Edith Freiberg, known to many in the Cuba solidarity movement as Maria Montelibre, lost her brief battle with cancer July 22 in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 62.
Canada passes marriage equality law
VANCOUVER, B.C. — Canada now joins Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain as the fourth country in the world to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry. On July 19, the Canadian Senate passed Bill C-38 that gives same-sex couples the same right to marry as opposite-sex couples.
Venezuelan NGO takes US money, faces trial
Venezuelan judge Normal Sandoval ruled July 7 that four members of the Venezuelan NGO Sumate would be facing trial on at least two charges. Under Article 132 of Venezuela’s Penal Code they will be charged with “conspiracy to destroy the republican political form of the nation,” a charge approaching that of treason.
