Abu Ghraib abuse part of larger pattern
I was not surprised at the torture atrocities by United States soldiers in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and at Guantanamo.
Message from Missouri: 'This is our country! Let's take it back!'
ST. LOUIS – Voters here in the Show Me State want George W. Bush to show them one good reason to give him four more years in the White House in the Nov. 2 election.
Even employer-backed health plans too costly
The rate of health care coverage is falling, even among workers eligible for employer-sponsored health plans, according to a recent survey by the Urban Institute.
Bush agenda is a cloud over civilization
The Bush administration governs from a script commissioned by oil, finance and military interests. According to John Kenneth Galbraith, these corporate interests represent “a cloud over civilization.”
International notes
Nigeria: U.S. seeks closer security ties / Haiti: Lavalas supporters demonstrate / Peru: General strike protests gov’t economic policies / Israel: Suicide top killer of soldiers / Germany: Autoworkers down tools
Palestinians press for UN action on wall
Palestinians are calling for swift action by the United Nations to enforce the July 9 ruling by the World Court that Israel’s apartheid-like “separation wall” along the West Bank is illegal and should be torn down.
Groups mount challenge to U.S. travel ban
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Ninety-plus members of the Venceremos Brigade, the African Awareness Association, and the U.S.-Cuba Labor Exchange triumphantly returned July 19 from Cuba to U.S. soil here in defiance of the Bush administration’s recent tightening of the U.S. travel ban to the socialist island. click here for Spanish text
Iron Range stands up to threat of scabs
CHISHOLM, Minn. – A hastily called rally at the Iron Man monument here July 16 drew more than 800 people in the first show of solidarity against Cleveland-Cliffs’ decision to hire replacement workers at four mines if contract talks break down with the United Steelworkers of America.
Labor, community fight to save health center
OAKLAND, Calif. – A years-long simmering crisis threatening the existence of the Alameda County Medical Center (ACMC) is heating up again, as a “turn-around” management firm’s drive to cut hundreds of workers is challenged by a labor-community coalition struggling to save the only public health care safety net for thousands of poor, sick and uninsured residents.
National Clips
NEW YORK: City workers to picket convention site / TAMPA, Fla.: Cuban Americans protest travel restrictions / BEDFORD, Ind.: Despite corporate violence, workers win contract / MILLTOWN, N.J.: First hurdle scaled to prevent deportation
