Capital campaign in home stretch
“What a change! What an improvement! The place looks great!” These were some of the thoughts running through my head as I walked into the Los Angeles Workers Center for the first time in several months.
Roberts hostile to equal pay, memo shows
WASHINGTON — A newly released legal memo by Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts calling pay equity for women a “pernicious” legal doctrine touched off demands by women’s organizations that he be quizzed closely on the issue in Senate confirmation hearings next month.
Showdown in Texas: The end of the occupation begins in Crawford
CRAWFORD, Texas – Cindy Sheehan’s roadside vigil has reverberated in towns and cities around the nation and even through the gates of President Bush’s ranch here. Vowing to trail the president back to Washington at the end of his vacation, this 48-year-old mother, whose son Casey died in Iraq last year, has voiced what a growing number of Americans are thinking, judging by the latest polls: Bush’s Iraq war is a cruel failure, based on lies, and it’s time to end it.
'The end of the occupation begins in Crawford, Texas'
CRAWFORD, Texas – Cindy Sheehan rode down to President Bush’s Crawford ranch last weekend on a Veterans For Peace bus after the veterans’ national convention in Dallas. Since then she has maintained a vigil outside Bush's ranch and refuses to leave until he personally listens to her demands to bring the troops home now. Her son Casey Sheehan and many of his comrades died in Iraq in 2004 attempting to save several ambushed soldiers. She believes that the best way to honor the fallen is to ensure that no more fall in the same way.
Sudanese vow to safeguard peace accord
CARACAS, Venezuela — Sudanese delegates held a workshop Aug. 11 at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students here. Titled “Civil war, democracy and the peace process in Sudan,” the workshop updated festival delegates on recent developments in the northeast African nation.
Civil liberties group sues N.Y. police on transit searches
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department’s new policy, in response to the July terrorist bombings in London, of randomly searching the bags of anyone on the subway, has brought turmoil to the city.
Further cuts proposed for King-Drew hospital
LOS ANGELES — Less than six months after closing the trauma center at the Martin Luther King Jr./Charles Drew Medical Center (KDMC), the L.A. County Board of Supervisors is considering even more cuts in the hospital’s services.
Reggae, art and politics: The revolutionary poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson
Author, founder of Dub poetry, former Black Panther and presently art editor of the journal Race Today, Linton Kwesi Johnson became the first Black poet and the second living poet to be included in Penguin Books’ iconic Modern Classics series with the publication of “Mi Revalueshanary Fren: Selected Poems” in 2002.
Time to rethink old thoughts
The growth and maturation of the progressive movement in recent years is a major feature of our time. A wide range of groups are involved in the struggle for a better society. And though there is much disagreement on strategy and different emphases on various aspects of the struggle, one can see a general understanding of the major problems and possible solutions. In our Internet-driven society it is not hard to find sophisticated, if not profound, analyses of the current world.
Operation Withdrawal Scam
The White House has launched a new phase of its propaganda siege for the Iraq war.
