Calif. education and health on chopping block
Across California, students and those who depend on publicly-funded health care programs will be among the hardest hit if the draconian cuts in programs and services proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger survive in the final budget the Legislature passes this summer.
More bad news for Bush: his budget stalls
WASHINGTON – A rebellion by four Republican senators against George W. Bush’s tax giveaways to the rich has forced the GOP leadership to postpone a vote on Bush’s 2005 budget for at least a month.
International notes
Greenland: U.S. base to expand / Japan: Okinawans sit in at U.S. base / China: Unions help the jobless / Colombia: Oil workers fired / South Africa: YCL to campaign for free education
HAITI: Police shoot pro-Aristide marchers
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Special Forces units of the Haitian National Police, acting as part of a larger U.S. Marine “peacekeeping” force, killed at least nine Fanmi Lavalas demonstrators here May 18, as U.S.
Parliamentary elections called in Canada
VANCOUVER, Canada – On May 23 Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin called new elections for June 28. While eight parties are competing, polls show the Liberal and Conservative parties as frontrunners.
National Clips
AUSTIN, Texas: Death penalty foes blast execution / SEATTLE: March for affordable health care / OLD BRIDGE, N.J.: Community vs. Omnipoint / LA PAZ, Calif.: Terminating Huerta? Say, No way! / CHICAGO: Equal rights, equal marriage / HUDSON, N.Y.: Suspensions rooted in racism?
100 days and counting: N. Calif. grocery workers ready for action
PLEASANTON, Calif. – Hundreds of workers from Safeway and other area grocery chains filled the space in front of Safeway’s corporate headquarters here with a sea of bright yellow T-shirts May 20, giving a resounding welcome to Safeway CEO Steve Burd and other company bigwigs at their shareholders’ meeting.
Music sampling
Music reviews My Favorite Distraction Venceremos Experience
Puncturing the myths of the New Economy
Book review After the New Economy By Doug Henwood New Press, 2003, Hardcover 269 pp., $24.95
Schoolhouse to jailhouse
Opinion Fourteen-year-old Ricky was arrested by school police one Halloween and charged with a second-degree felony: “throwing a deadly missile.”
