Tracking Bushs assault on the environment
Book Review Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking our Democracy By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. HarperCollins, 2004 Hardcover, 244 pp., $21.95
9/11 and the decline of our democracy
Opinion President Bush has taken over 9/11, to use whenever it serves his purposes. He seeks to own it all — except the acknowledgment that he and his war cabinet were accessories.
In dark and hopeful times, we shall overcome
Opinion These are dark and hopeful times — dark because the Bush administration is waging an endless war in the face of worldwide opposition, but hopeful because it has brought us together.
Protect the vote! 1-866-OUR-VOTE
Opinion With widespread predictions of a close national election, an unprecedented wave of new voter registration and new voting systems in place, the potential for problems is high.
The vote is the central issue in 2004
Opinion Both personality and issues will affect who is elected president in 2004. Most agree George W. Bush’s personality and John Kerry’s issues are most appealing. Both are focused on getting votes — however, there may actually be something more fundamental.
From COINTELPRO to the Patriot Act: The long battle for justice and civil liberties
COINTELPRO’s “aim was to neutralize the movement, to disrupt legal activities. Dozens were murdered or assassinated. The result was that effective movements for social change were disrupted and in some cases destroyed.”
Vote or die is no joke
The phrase “Vote or Die” is a favorite among young voters and meant to get them to the polls. For health care activists, this is not an empty phrase but a grim reality. The policies of the Bush administration, if not stopped, will bring suffering and death to tens of thousands.
Bush vs. Kerry on job growth
If you are like most working people in the U.S. today, your job security has never, it seems, been shakier. Never mind the huge job losses under Bush’s watch: whole careers, entire trades, have been swept away in the span of a few years.
Housing discrimination alive and well in Alameda
A series of tests with pairs of Black and white investigators has revealed a high level of housing discrimination against African Americans in the city of Alameda, Calif., the nonprofit organization Sentinel Fair Housing said last week.
International notes
South Africa: Corporate pay hikes ‘shock’ unions / Spain: Protesters block NATO train / Germany: GM workers return to the job / East Timor: Clash with Australia on oil / Colombia: Huge nationwide protests / Colombia: Huge nationwide protests
