California health care reform goes to the wire
Facing a mid-September deadline for action during the Legislature’s regular session, California’s Democratic legislative leaders and Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have intensified negotiations for a health care reform bill that can be passed and signed this year.
Under scorching sun, rally protests migrant deaths
TUCSON, Ariz. — A coalition of local immigrant rights, labor and community organizations rallied at the federal building here Aug. 28 to mark the National Day of Action to Stop Anti-Immigrant Repression and Migrant Deaths at the U.S.-Mexico Border.
Save my home from real estate greed
LOS ANGELES — Like the Southern California weather, the movement for affordable housing is heating up. At a press conference in the Olympic Park neighborhood here, housing activists gathered with tenants outside the residence of Thelma Meredith. Meredith, 88, has lived in the same apartment for 42 years. Now she is being evicted from her home. Her only income is Social Security.
Call to action: defend immigrant workers rights
The Aug. 10 declaration by the Bush administration of a more repressive immigration policy, if put into effect, will create fascist-like conditions for 12 million undocumented workers and their families.
Remembering Karl Dennis, PWW booster extraordinaire
TUCSON, Ariz. — With the 2007 People’s Weekly World fund drive ready to start on Labor Day, Arizona PWW supporters, like supporters across the country, are gearing up, but we find it so strange to do so without the paper’s biggest booster, Karl Dennis, who passed away last February at the age of 87.
PWW fund drive begins Labor Day
NEW YORK — Readers and supporters of the People’s Weekly World are wasting no time. The 2007 Fund Drive kicks off on Labor Day, yet readers have already raised $44,000 — more than 20 percent of the drive’s $200,000 goal. The drive ends on Nov. 22, Thanksgiving.
Wake of the Wind a fantastic read
Go to the bookstore or library, get a copy of “The Wake of the Wind” by J. California Cooper, read it immediately and then pass it on. Tell the members of your community organization, church, school or union to read it too. Do it now. Don’t wait another moment.
Greek shipyard workers host art exhibit
ATHENS, Greece — In the summer of 2005, a group of 18 Greek artists, challenging the pervasive commercialization of art and the degradation of cultural values in today’s society, set out to ground their artwork in the daily reality and struggles of the working class.
THIS WEEK IN LABOR: Sept. 1
Workers ‘very happy’ on their jobs?! The payback can be sweet Grocery workers win back wages Indianapolis school workers win their union Union leader arrested for talking
WORLD NOTES: Sept. 1
Canada: Quebec opposes war in Afghanistan Mauritania: Slavery now a punishable crime Israel: Refugees from Sudan turned back Bolivia: Constituent Assembly is halted, big struggle looms India: Communists put brakes on U.S. nuclear deal
