This Week In Labor
LGBT unionists fighting on several fronts Supreme Court rules against public employees Big 3 aiming for more cuts High court shafts home aides on overtime Grocery workers facing big battle Ohio workers rally for EFCA
WOLRD NOTES
Brazil: Landless workers weigh in on biofuels Ghana: African leader tells rich nations to keep promises UN: Iraqi, Palestinian children abandoned, forced to work Nepal: Gov’t prepares elections, cuts king’s powers Britain: Troops say, ‘Out of Iraq!’
Marchers uphold immigrant rights
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — After residents were terrorized by a federal immigration raid, the usually busy streets of this city’s Fair Haven neighborhood were silent for a week and a half. The silence was broken June 16, as over 1,000 marched in solidarity wearing signs declaring, “No human being is illegal.”
Finish the job: take America back from GOP
WASHINGTON — Fired up by victory over the Republican right in last November’s election, 3,000 progressives at a “Take Back America” conference cheered as speakers demanded that Congress end the Iraq war, restore union rights and enact health care for all.
Cuban Adjustment Act: still deadly after all these years
The Cuban Adjustment Act, passed in 1966, has been used for decades by the U.S. government to manipulate Cuban emigration for counterrevolutionary purposes. Along the way, its provisions that Cubans arriving on U.S. soil gain permanent residency after a year, receive work permits and Social Security numbers, and need not provide affidavits of support, have lured thousands to death by drowning as they sought to cross the shark-infested Florida Straits.
Ohio marchers rally for immigrant rights on Fathers Day
PAINESVILLE, Ohio — With raids and arrests of undocumented workers spreading, hundreds of farmworkers held a silent, solemn Father’s Day march and rally in this mid-sized town about 30 miles east of Cleveland.
Vilma Espn, Cuban heroine, dies in Havana
Vilma Espín Guillois, a heroine of the Cuban revolution and an untiring fighter for the emancipation of women, passed away in Havana on June 18 after a long and painful illness.
The G-8 Summit and the Provocateurs, or Coming through the Rye
Most German media had been beating the terrorist drums. The charges continued up to the last moment and beyond, resulting in great confusion, near hysteria in the media, a somewhat smaller turnout than expected (80,000 showed up in the end) but a resolute decision by most protest participants to keep cool heads and not be provoked.
Essential truths about immigration
The ultra-right inundates us with racist propaganda about undocumented immigrants, making them sound like hordes of barbarians who are invading this country and bringing crime, disease and terror with them.
What about the victims of capitalism?
On June 12, George W. Bush inaugurated the “Victims of Communism Memorial” within view of the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
