Texas watchdog groups want DeLay probe
AUSTIN, Texas – Three Texas campaign reform groups called July 15 for the U.S. House Ethics Committee to appoint an independent outside counsel to investigate charges that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas illegally funneled corporate campaign contributions to Republican candidates running for seats in the Texas House of Representatives.
California labor calls for troops home now
SAN DIEGO – The California Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, has voted in favor of “an immediate end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq, and to support the repeal of the Patriot Act and the reordering of national priorities toward the human needs of our people.”
At the Democratic National Convention - Unionists talk jobs, health care
BOSTON (PAI) – When he gets to Boston, Richard Martin will discuss health insurance and homeland security.
What would a day without Mexicans be like?
MOVIE REVIEW A Day Without a Mexican Directed by Sergio Arau Distributed by Televisa Cine, 2004
Clear Channel censors billboard
NEW YORK – A group of Bay Area peace activists went to court July 13 to try to force Clear Channel Communications to allow an antiwar advertisement on a billboard in Times Square here.
Arizona mobilizes against bigotry and hate
The Arizona Secretary of State has accepted petitions, supposedly signed by over 190,000 voters, to place a right-wing initiative on the November ballot. The proposition uses racism and immigrant bashing in an attempt to restrict the right to vote and to divide the working class.
Latinos rejecting Bush in greater numbers
Two recent polls indicate that Latino opposition to Bush administration policies is strong and increasing. More importantly, the polls suggest that issue-oriented campaigns can significantly increase Latino voter turnout against Bush and the right-wing Republicans in Congress, and play a significant role in defeating them.
A continuing portrait of inequality
Forty years after President Johnson declared a War on Poverty and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, 108 years after Plessy v. Ferguson, and 141 years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, a Black child still lacks a fair chance to live, learn, thrive, and contribute in America.
Halliburton and the raw drive for profits
Karl Marx once wrote that the United States had a relatively “pure” form of capitalism where the capitalists faced the workers directly, with no aristocracies, pre-capitalist classes, or non-capitalist ideological survivals to get in the way – just the raw drive for profits.
Heroes in the war against terrorism
She was soft-spoken and earnest. She had a quiet determination, a depth of intellect and character that many a mom would hope for her daughter.
