Incident at Loch Ness:an enigma wrapped in a riddle
Movie Review I don’t pretend to know much about Werner Herzog, the acclaimed director of 46 films most people have never heard of, but I do know that “Incident at Loch Ness,” which Herzog produced and appears in, is brilliant.
Great escapes
End of summer got you down? Giving up on “Law and Order” once and for all now that Jerry Orbach has moved on? Wondering why “Medical Investigation” isn’t listed as a comedy?
Union muscle won health care for all in Hawaii
Opinion The citizens of the offshore state of Hawaii have something that millions of mainlanders without health insurance want.
Common sense for the left about John Kerry
Opinion As I talk to friends on the left and center-left, I find too many people picking up on Bush administration propaganda that Kerry is a “flip-flopping” politician, that his stands on the Iraq war are opportunistic and bad, and that his “weakness” is helping Bush.
Hold the line!
Opinion This is an appeal to the Latino and Mexican American communities, but its main thrust also affects labor, other ethnic groups, and the American public in general, specifically those of us who must work for a living.
Why Bush has failed on terrorism
Opinion George W. Bush says the war in Iraq has made the world safer. It may sound good in media bites but take a closer look. His campaign is playing on people’s fears of terrorism, wrapping itself in national security, and doing what it does best: lying.
Health care action week to dramatize growing crisis
Jobs with Justice (JwJ), the national coalition of labor, community, student and faith-based groups, has declared Oct. 3-10 “Health Care Action Week: Affordable Health Care for All.”
Wal-Mart pulls back from Chicago
CHICAGO (PAI) — Just months after it tried to ram two “supercenters” through the Chicago City Council, giant anti-worker retailer Wal-Mart has apparently thrown in the towel. The reason, though it denies it: The city’s new living wage law.
California: Frozen voter funds hit
On Sept. 17, the Schwarz-enegger administration rejected California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley’s request for release of over $25 million in federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) funds in preparation for the November election.
Coast-to-coast actions for immigrant rights
On the occasion of the first anniversary of the historic Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, which reached 101 cities and culminated in a rally and Lobby Day in Washington and a rally of 200,000 in New York City, immigrants, advocates, and their allies are holding a series of actions across the U.S. to renew the push for progressive immigration system reform.
