Happy Birthday, Cesar Chavez
Millions celebrated the life of Cesar Chavez nationwide on his birthday, March 31.
Labor launches McCain Revealed campaign
Everywhere Republican presidential candidate John McCain goes these days he is finding union activists confronting him on economic issues and demanding that he speak to working families’ concerns. Since March 1, union members have held actions at McCain events in Ohio, Missouri and New Hampshire.
McCain flip flops on Social Security
Angry retirees descended on Social Security Administration offices in downtown Phoenix Mar. 7 holding placards that read, “Tell McCain ‘hands off Social Security.’”
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.
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.
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
Cuba, Brazil trade ideas, goods
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited Cuba in mid-January. He and his ministers signed agreements with their Cuban counterparts relating to credit, technical exchanges, trade and energy. On Jan. 15 Lula spent almost three hours with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Co-ops transform Venezuela
For over a decade, an abandoned refilling station owned by Venezuelan oil company PDVSA in western Caracas was a place of death. Community residents said it was a place where women were raped, murdered bodies dumped and drugs used and dealt.
