Students demand voting rights in Prairie View
Police in Waller County estimate about 2,000 people marched 7.3 miles on Feb. 19 from Prairie View A&M University to the Waller County Courthouse in Hempstead, Texas to demand the right to vote.
Online rally for paid sick days: Help solve a public health crisis
Your child wakes up one morning and doesn’t feel well. You wish you could stay home with her, but if you miss work you will lose a day’s pay – or risk being fired. Your family is already struggling to make ends meet.
Iraqi Communist Party calls for immediate end to Turkish military operations
The Iraqi Communist Party issued a press statement on 22 February 2008 condemning the incursion by Turkish forces into Iraqi territory and calling on the Turkish authorities to immediately end their military operations. The following is the text of the statement:
Cyprus: Presidential election, a victory for peace
On Sunday Feb. 24 the second round of the presidential election for the island nation of Cyprus concluded with the election of Dimitris Christofias, leader of the Progressive Party of the Working People of Cyprus (AKEL). AKEL is essentially the Communist Party of Cyprus.
For Cuba, the world: end of an era
Cuba has a new president. Voting on February 24, Cuba’s newly elected National Assembly selected former First Vice President Raul Castro as President of the Council of State, the official whom Cuba’s constitution designates as President of the Republic.
Change to Win endorses Obama
Citing his promise to re-negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and saying that it is time for the race for the Democratic presidential nomination to end, the seven union, six million member Change to Win federation, on Feb. 21, endorsed Sen. Barack Obama.
Was satellite shoot down a weapons test?
The interception of a “disabled spy satellite” by a Pentagon missile is worrying some countries that see it as a poorly disguised attempt to test an anti-satellite weapons system. The Pentagon missile launch Thursday amounted to an unprecedented demonstration to the world that the U.S. can take out spacecrafts launched by other nations.
Teamsters back Obama
Sen. Barack Obama received the endorsement Feb. 20 of the powerful Teamsters, the fourth major labor endorsement of his candidacy in a week. The other unions that endorsed him in the week leading up to the Teamster announcement were the 65,000 member International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, the 1.9 million member Service Employees International Union and the United Food and Commercial Workers.
Event calls for medical marijuana reform
Those who have suffered from terminal illnesses; both physical and mental, and found relief in the calming clouds of smoke call it something else: medicine. There’s nothing wacky about that.
Buffenbarger election speech could strip gears of labor unity
Getting carried away with your own rhetoric is rarely a good thing. Tom Buffenbarger, president of the Machinists' union (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers), did just that in a “warm-up” speech for Hillary Clinton the night of the Wisconsin primary.
