WORLD NOTES: Sept. 8
Chile: General strike triggers police repression Japan: Peace activists pressure U.S. military Iraq: Millions displaced, needs unmet Spain: Biofuel production means high prices, food shortages Nigeria: New president discards national oil company
Neo-Nazis in Germany, or dj vu?
BERLIN — An argument at a summer fair in the small town of Muegeln, between Leipzig and Dresden, ended with a mob of 50 drunken young men chasing eight men from India, longtime Muegeln residents, across the town square. The drunken men were wielding knives and other weapons and shouting, “Foreigners get out!”
22 cities rally against gun violence
PHILADELPHIA — As part of the 22-city National Day of Protest, some 200 people spilled into an intersection here for a noontime rally against gun violence, Aug. 28. The crowd assembled near Colosimo’s Gun Shop where 263 guns linked to crimes had been purchased.
California health care reform goes to the wire
Facing a mid-September deadline for action during the Legislature’s regular session, California’s Democratic legislative leaders and Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have intensified negotiations for a health care reform bill that can be passed and signed this year.
Under scorching sun, rally protests migrant deaths
TUCSON, Ariz. — A coalition of local immigrant rights, labor and community organizations rallied at the federal building here Aug. 28 to mark the National Day of Action to Stop Anti-Immigrant Repression and Migrant Deaths at the U.S.-Mexico Border.
Save my home from real estate greed
LOS ANGELES — Like the Southern California weather, the movement for affordable housing is heating up. At a press conference in the Olympic Park neighborhood here, housing activists gathered with tenants outside the residence of Thelma Meredith. Meredith, 88, has lived in the same apartment for 42 years. Now she is being evicted from her home. Her only income is Social Security.
Starrett City struggle symbolizes New Yorks housing crisis
NEW YORK — A battle is being fought in this city around affordable housing, and grassroots organizations are joining together in hopes of winning one: saving Starrett City for working-class families.
Call to action: defend immigrant workers rights
The Aug. 10 declaration by the Bush administration of a more repressive immigration policy, if put into effect, will create fascist-like conditions for 12 million undocumented workers and their families.
Remembering Karl Dennis, PWW booster extraordinaire
TUCSON, Ariz. — With the 2007 People’s Weekly World fund drive ready to start on Labor Day, Arizona PWW supporters, like supporters across the country, are gearing up, but we find it so strange to do so without the paper’s biggest booster, Karl Dennis, who passed away last February at the age of 87.
PWW fund drive begins Labor Day
NEW YORK — Readers and supporters of the People’s Weekly World are wasting no time. The 2007 Fund Drive kicks off on Labor Day, yet readers have already raised $44,000 — more than 20 percent of the drive’s $200,000 goal. The drive ends on Nov. 22, Thanksgiving.
