Gloria Freedman, 92
Union activist, housing organizer, loving mother, stalwart supporter of the People’s Weekly World newspaper and lifelong communist Gloria Freedman passed away Feb. 16 in New York City at the age of 92. Born Gloria Silver in 1915 as the second of eight children, Freedman was the only one of the family who took interest in her father’s business, a local candy store on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Colombias incursion into Ecuador: Who gains?
In the last few years a political sea-change has swept away most of the U.S.-sponsored, repressive military dictatorships in South America. Democratically elected and in some cases explicitly socialist-oriented governments predominate from Venezuela and Ecuador to Chile and Argentina. The tide of change is even starting to touch Paraguay, long a poster child of absolutist rule and abysmal poverty.
Colombia's incursion into Ecuador criticized
Last weekend, the Colombian government led a military attack on the FARC in Ecuadorean territory, killing more than 20 persons including a key FARC negotiator involved in recent hostage releases.
Are Green PC's available?
Online gamers and other heavy computer users are definitely leaving an environmental mark. Depending on when it was made and how it was designed, a standard desktop PC can use anywhere from 60-300 watts when in use, while an inefficient gaming PC with powerful graphics card, multiple hard drives and optical drives, flash memory reader and a 30-inch LCD might consume as much as 750 watts, or about as much as a typical refrigerator.
2008 vote on AFL-CIO agenda
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (PAI) – Politics will be a big item on the AFL-CIO executive council agenda at its meeting in San Diego, March 4 – 6.
Corporate lobbyists drive McCains campaign
Hustling votes aboard his campaign bus, the “Straight Talk Express,” John McCain spouts clichés at every stop, promising to end “pork barrel” and the “culture of corruption” in Washington if he is elected president.
Corporate lobbyists drive McCains campaign
Hustling votes aboard his campaign bus, the “Straight Talk Express,” John McCain spouts clichés at every stop, promising to end “pork barrel” and the “culture of corruption” in Washington if he is elected president.
Environmental questions
Muchos festivales ambientales son amplios con respecto a los asuntos cubiertos, pero varios eventos de temática más específica o interempresariales ocurren a través del año también.
Letters - Feb. 23, 2008
Numerology? Gay rights Medicaid alert Palestine Gas schemes Response on climate change Labor in Virginia
Letters - Feb. 16, 2008
Re: Climate change, what’s the problem? Stimulus? Raise corp. taxes Don’t be so quick on Halliburton Flexible ethics
