Venezuela on alert against provocations
CARACAS — Venezuelan authorities are on high alert due to possible violent actions by radical sectors of the conservative opposition as the Aug. 15 recall referendum on President Hugo Chavez approaches.
Iraqi unions keep workers hopes alive
LONDON — In 1963, when Subhi Abdullah Mashadani was a railroad worker, he was arrested by Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party because of his political activism and imprisoned for eight years. He was one of the many progressive Iraqis forced to operate underground inside their country before the fall of the regime.
Film, family and Jim Taylor
Carolyn Black was a young girl when her cousin Jim moved into the third floor of the family’s six-flat. “He loved taking pictures of anything and anybody,” Black said. “He introduced to all the young people on the block how to take pictures.”
National Clips
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.: Dems gain turnout edge in primary / CARSON NATIONAL FOREST, N.M.: Bush steps in for gas company profits / JACKSONVILLE, Fla.: Dirty tricks, again, in Florida / WASHINGTON: International observers to monitor vote / ATMORE, Ala.: State executes 74-year-old inmate
A message from the editor. Billiken: Only the best for kids
Bud Billiken is a fictional character from the creative minds at the Chicago Defender newspaper.
Iraqi unionists Traveling theater
Iraqi artists, trade unionists and others who fled from persecution at the hands of the Ba’ath regime are joining forces with the newly emerging democratic trade union movement there in a traveling theater company to promote union rights among the people.
Guthrie portrait dedicated at state capitol
OKLAHOMA CITY – (AP) Entertainer Arlo Guthrie and other family members led the singing at the Oklahoma State Capitol July 15 to celebrate the unveiling of a portrait of his father, legendary folk artist Woody Guthrie.
Woody Guthrie the real ramblin man
Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie By Ed Cray W.W. Norton & Company, 2004 Hardcover, 384 pp., $29.95
Environmentalism and anti-imperialism
“Hey Henry, what are you doing in there?” “Hey Waldo, what are you doing out there?” This dialogue between Henry David Thoreau and his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson is purported to have occurred through the jailhouse window in Concord, Mass., in 1846.
Space privatization: Road to conflict?
Recent news brings us the story of “space pioneers” launching privately funded craft into the heavens. A special prize is offered to the first private aerospace corporation who can successfully take a pilot and a “space tourist” into orbit.
