Editorial: Media chill
A chill is spreading through the media and a cold shadow is falling over the right of the people to know.
Continuity and change in Caribbean immigration
NEW YORK — On June 27 the House of Representatives passed a bill introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) to designate a national “Caribbean American Heritage Month.”
World Notes
Africa: Unions demand action vs. AIDS; Iraq: Committee for a Democratic Constitution launched; Japan: Mayors protest U.S. buildup near Hiroshima; Guatemala: Union office raided; Australia: Protest vs. gov’t labor proposals
In Berlin, a weird vote and an old specter
BERLIN — Weird was the best way to describe German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s tactic: to urge his parliament to vote “no confidence” in his own government. He succeeded. Now, if President Horst Koehler goes along, Schroeder will get what he sought — new elections in September, a year earlier than required.
National Clips
SAN FRANCISCO: Boycott Gallo wine; SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Stop spying on your mom; LANSING, Mich.: Social Security ‘Truth Truck’; ST. PAUL, Minn.: ‘Halt state gov’t shutdown’; MORGANTOWN, W.Va.: ‘War begins with Dubya’
Neighbors denounce anti-gay hate crime
NEW YORK — After a vicious anti-gay hate crime that left a young Brooklyn man, Dwan Prince, comatose and clinging to life, friends and community residents gathered for a June 28 vigil in front of Brookdale Hospital in Brownsville, the neighborhood where the event occurred.
CAFTA We dont hafta
It is urgent for voters to contact their congresspersons this week on the upcoming vote on CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Jobs with Justice urged workers’ rights supporters in an e-mail message July 1.
Iraqi trade unionists speak in Philly
PHILADELPHIA — Over 100 Philadelphians gathered at a June 24 forum here hosted by this city’s Central Labor Council and UNITE-HERE Local 274 to welcome three Iraqi labor leaders. The visit was part of a 25-city, nationwide tour of Iraqi unionists organized by U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW).
Massive rally in Chicago for immigrant rights
CHICAGO — In the largest political protest here on any cause since the Vietnam War, tens of thousands of immigrant rights supporters demonstrated July 1 against the anti-immigrant “Minutemen” and in favor of the legalization of immigrants and the unification of immigrant families.
