Sweeney seeks more comment on AFL-CIO revamp
WASHINGTON (PAI) — AFL-CIO President John Sweeney is seeking comments on changing the labor federation’s nature and structure. “We will undertake a full and open discussion about our future and the choices we must make together,” he said in an early December letter, outlining topics for the federation’s 50th-anniversary convention, to be held in Chicago in late July 2005.
The Woodsman
Movie Review Nicole Kassel’s “The Woodsman,” starring Kevin Bacon, is a quiet and subtle exploration into the world of pedophilia and incest. And while we might want to put that as far away from us as possible, the movie makes us look at it with uncomfortable closeness. It suggests that how we view our children — as our breathing property or as little beings — makes all the difference.
Slavery and the Making of America on PBS
Coming to PBS on Feb. 9 and Feb 16 from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. is the four-part series “Slavery and the Making of America.”
Birminghams heroic children
Review “Mighty Times: The Children’s March,” co-produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Home Box Office, has received an Academy Award nomination in the Best Documentary Short Subject category.
Black actors earn five Oscar nods
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Six years ago, Chris Rock joked that the Academy Awards looked like the “million white man march” for its traditional under-representation of Blacks. This time, with Rock taking his maiden voyage as host of Hollywood’s biggest party, he will preside over a record Oscar night for Black actors, who earned five of the 20 nominations.
84,000 could lose Pell Grant funding
OPINION Education. The path to profits, prestige and power. Whether the path includes a skilled trades apprenticeship program or formal education, learning provides lifelong access to better jobs and better wages and better benefits.
Taking a stand at School of the Americas
OPINION At the annual School of the Americas (SOA) protest and vigil at Ft. Benning, Ga., Nov. 21, 2004, the author and 14 others, including two minors, crossed the line onto SOA property to oppose the U.S. military training of Latin American assassination and torture squads that takes place there.
EDITORIALS
A new opportunity to end the occupation / Gov’t workers under attack
Pages from workers lives Love and union
Love and union The merger last summer of the Union of Needletrade, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees was the reflection of an earlier “merger” which took place on a smaller scale. We reprint below UNITE’s interview with Rosa Garcia.
Policy wonks project key health care issues
A year-end report from the Commonwealth Fund highlights core, mainstream health care issues. These, in turn, show some key points of struggle in 2005.
