Chicago unions, tenants fight for housing
CHICAGO – In an important new development, organized labor is now stepping forward to make its voice heard on the side of renters in the growing housing crisis here.
The 1871 ban on night work
A recent Oxfam study of factories producing for Wal-Mart, Target, Nike and similar companies underlined their abusive practices worldwide.
Will the Hammer go to the slammer?
HOUSTON – A complaint against Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was filed on June 15 with the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct by Texas Democratic Rep. Chris Bell.
Livermore action to urge Books, not bombs
LIVERMORE, Calif. – On the 59th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there will be a peace march to the Livermore nuclear weapons lab.
International notes
Turkey: Mass protest greets NATO meet / Japan: ‘Save antiwar Article 9’ / Norway: Citizen inspectors visit secret U.S. base / Israel: IAEA says ‘end nuclear threat’ / Haiti: Protest former prime minister’s arrest
Canadian voters punish Liberal Party
VANCOUVER, British Co-lumbia – After 13 years of center-right rule, angry voters punished the incumbent Liberal Party on June 28 by giving them a minority government. Not only did the Liberal Party lose 37 seats in Parliament – dropping to 135 – but its popular vote shrank to 37 percent, three points less than four years ago.
Halliburton profits from blood and war
HOUSTON – Protests continue here and around the country over the war profiteering of Halliburton Company and its crony capitalist practices.
Texans speak out against torture
DALLAS – The Dallas Peace Center and the Center for Survivors of Torture held an interfaith service June 25 in keeping with the United Nations Day Against Torture.
A passion to re-defeat Bush
The Committee to ReDefeat the President (www.redefeatbush.com) is an innovative and energetic political action committee whose goal is to register 1 million new Democratic voters in swing states.
A grassroots view of San Diegos underbelly
BOOK REVIEW Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See By Mike Davis, Kelly Mayhew and Jim Miller The New Press, 2003 Hardcover, 304 pp., $25.95
