Livermore action to urge Books, not bombs
LIVERMORE, Calif. – On the 59th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there will be a peace march to the Livermore nuclear weapons lab.
International notes
Turkey: Mass protest greets NATO meet / Japan: ‘Save antiwar Article 9’ / Norway: Citizen inspectors visit secret U.S. base / Israel: IAEA says ‘end nuclear threat’ / Haiti: Protest former prime minister’s arrest
Canadian voters punish Liberal Party
VANCOUVER, British Co-lumbia – After 13 years of center-right rule, angry voters punished the incumbent Liberal Party on June 28 by giving them a minority government. Not only did the Liberal Party lose 37 seats in Parliament – dropping to 135 – but its popular vote shrank to 37 percent, three points less than four years ago.
Halliburton profits from blood and war
HOUSTON – Protests continue here and around the country over the war profiteering of Halliburton Company and its crony capitalist practices.
Texans speak out against torture
DALLAS – The Dallas Peace Center and the Center for Survivors of Torture held an interfaith service June 25 in keeping with the United Nations Day Against Torture.
A passion to re-defeat Bush
The Committee to ReDefeat the President (www.redefeatbush.com) is an innovative and energetic political action committee whose goal is to register 1 million new Democratic voters in swing states.
A grassroots view of San Diegos underbelly
BOOK REVIEW Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See By Mike Davis, Kelly Mayhew and Jim Miller The New Press, 2003 Hardcover, 304 pp., $25.95
Government science goes political
Imagine if a government scientist discovered unseen bacteria in the air that posed serious health risks to the public, but was ordered to suppress the research by an agency with connections to the very industry producing the hazard.
The haves and have-nots
“Fill it up.” That’s what Paul Allen says when he pulls into the slot where he gets his tank filled. Then Allen plunks down $250,000 for the fill-up. That’s right, one-quarter million dollars, and at the “old” prices at that.
Unfinished business: from Brown to NCLB and beyond
Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court’s watershed Brown v. Board of Education decision set the precedent for an assertive federal role in American public education. The issues of quality and equality have been on the national agenda ever since.
