Take action! Support Mejia objector to the Iraq War
Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia had served three years in the Army and almost five in Florida’s National Guard when he was deployed to Iraq in April 2003. He saw the brutalizing effects the war had on his fellow soldiers.
Cultural treasures at train depot
Artrain USA is a unique art museum on rails. It brings art exhibitions and programs directly to communities that have limited access to museums or collections.
Don West: Southern radical and poet too
Book Review No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems By Don West, edited by Jeff Biggers and George Brosi University of Illinois Press, 2004 Softcover, 280 pp., $25
Colin Powell, phone home
Opinion General Powell: In Bob Woodward’s recent book, “Plan of Attack,” he says you said such things to President Bush as, “You break it, you own it,” when he said he planned to attack Iraq. You also reportedly said, “You know, you’re going to be owning this place,” and “You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people.”
The UN can make a difference for Iraq
Opinion Last January, Tareeq Al-Shaab, the Iraqi Communist Party’s (ICP) newspaper, editorialized, “It is well known that the occupation forces did not want, from the start, to give the UN a central and ‘vital’ role for various reasons.
Singer Natalie Merchant on side of peace, labor
Music Review Natalie Merchant fans well understand her intense commitment to peace and social justice.
Uncovering the truth about Reds and unions
Book Review Left Out: Reds and America’s Industrial Unions By Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin Cambridge University Press, 2002, Softcover, 392 pp., $27
Rethinking World War II
Opinion When World War II ended, most Americans realized the enormous contribution that the Soviet Union had made to the victory over fascism.
Students, parents and teachers: March vs. education cuts
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Fifty students, parents and teachers spent their spring break marching from San Pablo to Sacramento in a “March 4 Education” to dramatize the financial plight of the West Contra Costa County School District.
International notes
Colombia: Coke unionist’s family killed / Cyprus: AKEL urges dialogue / Sudan: Urgent appeal to feed refugees / China: Rural workers to receive training / Haiti: Factory workers win victory
