National Clips
LOS ANGELES: Council bars sweatshop products / SMITHERS, W.Va.: Union-busting hurts communities / OKLAHOMA CITY: Peace marchers undeterred by Bush election / CHICAGO: City college teachers ratify pact
Chicagoans rally against Daley school plan
News Analysis CHICAGO — If Mayor Richard M. Daley thought he could sneak a new school privatization scheme by the public, he’s had a rude awakening. Vowing to block the mayor’s “Renaissance 2010” plan, over 500 union members, parents, community activists and students rallied Nov. 12 across from City Hall.
Conf. on race calls for proactive agenda
BERKELEY, Calif. — They came from all regions of the country and from every arena of the racial justice struggle, and with one voice they declared that in the wake of Nov. 2, their determination to fight for democracy, equality, social and economic justice is more powerful than ever. click here for Spanish text
AFL-CIO head focuses on unity
Just one week after the disappointing outcome of the Nov. 2 election to which the American labor movement had committed unprecedented money, troops and passion, leaders of the AFL-CIO gathered in Washington, D.C., for a one-day meeting to draw lessons and plan for the difficult battles ahead.
Health care is a right
Los Angeles struggles to save trauma center LOS ANGELES — In a massive show of strength, thousands of South Los Angeles residents and labor, community, and religious leaders gave notice Nov. 15 to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors that its plans to close the Martin Luther King/Charles Drew Medical Center’s (KDMC) trauma center will be met with unprecedented opposition every step of the way.
What moral values?
Workers’ Correspondence Political commentators are making “moral values” the issue that squeaked President Bush back into the White House.
Minnesota sees high turnout, some gains
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The deep disappointment among progressives which was felt with the election of George W. Bush to a second term was tempered somewhat in Minnesota by the gains made by the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party in the state House, a gain of 13 seats, leaving the Republicans with only a two-seat majority.
Brother to Brother a flashback to HarlemBrother to Brother
Film Review Brother to Brother Written, produced and directed by Rodney Evans
Ray: Dont miss it
Film Review The story “Ray,” about the life of singer Ray Charles, begins with Ray as a young child in Florida during the 1930s. He witnesses the accidental drowning of his little brother George and this trauma is one that haunted him the rest of his life. Not long after George’s death, Ray became blind.
PBS series to screen films by women
TELEVISION REVIEW Five films from Women Make Movies will be featured on acclaimed PBS series “Independent Lens” this fall, including four newly released titles: “Afghanistan Unveiled” by Brigitte Brault and the AINA Women’s Filming Group; “Thunder in Guyana” by historian Suzanne Wasserman; “Girl Wrestler” by Diane Zander; and two compelling experimental documentary shorts about Holocaust memory by Elida Schogt (“Zyklon Portrait” and “The Walnut Tree”).
