WORLDNOTES
Japan: Strong vote against U.S. bases Iraq: Students’ initiative for peace Venezuela: New program aids women Zambia: S. African Communist honored Israel: Poll reveals rising racism
Israeli elections reflect contradictory currents
Israel’s March 28 national elections saw a setback for parties opposing withdrawal from the occupied territories and evacuation of the settlements, as well as stepped-up criticism of the government’s neoliberal social and economic policies. At the same time, parties with racist and extreme nationalist platforms gained ground.
Peru poised to shift left?
The campaign of Peruvian populist Ollanta Moises Humala Tasso appeared to be poised for victory in the April 9 presidential election as the World went to press.
New Orleans rally: Save Charity Hospital
Two hundred doctors, other health care workers, patients and “Charity babies” — New Orleans residents born at the city’s Charity Hospital — rallied March 25, demanding that President Bush, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and the Louisiana state Legislature “repair, re-open, and fund” the hospital.
Claremont Resort & Spa workers win long battle
BERKELEY, Calif. — After a long and sometimes bitter struggle, some 400 workers at the luxury Claremont Resort and Spa have won a new, multiyear contract providing wage and benefit increases their union says will raise their overall pay to the area union standard. For the first time, most workers will be eligible for health coverage.
NATIONALCLIPS
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.: 1,500 march for immigrant rights BILLINGS, Mont.: Provide birth control, says state official DURHAM, N.C.: Rally against sexual violence TUCSON, Ariz.: FBI spying sparks protest, satire WASHINGTON: EPA relaxes air standards
Immigrant rights: a new movement springs up
WASHINGTON — Father Claudio Holzer, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Melrose Park, Ill., is a board member of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Yet even he was stunned by the mass demonstrations that swept the nation in defense of 11 million undocumented people in recent weeks.
Calls mount for censure or impeachment of Bush
WASHINGTON — Despite Republican efforts to kill it, a grassroots movement demanding that Congress censure or impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for “high crimes” is spreading across the nation.
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Paul Robeson exhibit to open in Oakland
OAKLAND, Calif.—– A new exhibit highlighting the life and work of legendary artist and political activist Paul Robeson is slated to open at the African American Museum and Library at Oakland (AAMLO), on April 8, the day before the 108th anniversary of his birth
