CAMP soups up fundraising
ST. LOUIS – The Community Arts and Media Project (CAMP) held a “Soup-Er Bowl Party” Jan. 27 to raise funds for a building it hopes to purchase here.
Does Nickelodeon really care for kids?
LOS ANGELES – During the holiday season parents searched for movies appropriate for their children, and Hollywood studios spent millions of dollars to capture that young audience.
International Notes
Japanese peace group asks for anti-nuke messages/Asylum seekers protest Australia’s anti-refugee policy/South Africans to act in support of Swaziland political prisoners/U.N. says war endangers world’s mountain ranges
CPs declare solidarity with Palestinian people
ATHENS – Meeting here last weekend, representatives of Communist and workers parties of the southern and eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf and Red Sea regions reiterated their solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Americans and Afghans grieve together
KABUL, Afghanistan – Coming together in common grief, a group of Americans who lost relatives in the Sept. 11 terror attacks on Jan. 16 visited three Afghan children whose mother was killed in an errant U.S. airstrike.
Israeli public opinion: Something has changed
TEL AVIV – Awareness is growing among the Israeli public about the serious dangers caused by Sharon’s policies and actions against the Palestinians, and new opposition to it can be seen. The media are increasingly reporting facts about which they had previously kept silent.
Students oppose tuition hikes
CHICAGO – Deep funding cuts aimed at solving the Illinois state budget crisis will wallop students in the University of Illinois (U of I) system. Republican Gov. George Ryan has cut $34 million in funds allocated to the university this year to close a $500-million budget gap resulting from the deepening economic recession.
Break the silence on civilian deaths
The capitalist press has been shy about revealing the toll the “War on Terrorism” has exacted on the innocent in Afghanistan. Those residing in the U.S. are not being told about the devastation that U.S. bombs are raining down upon innocent civilians.
Infinite justification
President Bush has declared that he is fighting a “war against terrorism,” and this war, different from any the U.S. has fought before, will go on for an undefined, unspecified, but protracted length of time. At first he called this a “crusade,” Operation Infinite Justice, then changed to Operation Enduring Freedom.
Subsidies are todays key farm issue
Just when the Republican majority of the House had approved farm subsidies for the next 10 years and the Democrat-controlled Senate, with the support of some Republicans, stood ready to enact subsidies for the next five years, out comes Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), in an op-ed piece in The New York Times, calling for an end to all farm subsidies.
