NYC firefighters fight City Hall and win
NEW YORK – Amidst the burning rubble of the World Trade Center, firefighters continue to extinguish the two-month-old fires and search for the remains of thousands still buried there. Just as it should be.
NYC homeless and hungry grows after 9/11
NEW YORK – The number of homeless and hungry in New York City is increasing.
Conyers challenges Bush on tribunals
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Conyers and other Members of Congress hold press conference to express concerns regarding the administration’s actions on Military Tribunals and Anti-terrorism.
Private airport security firms get the boot
Privatization, the holy Grail of the ultra-right, has taken some heavy hits since the Sept. 11 terrorist attack and not just because the heroes were public employees – firefighters, emergency medical workers and the police.
Peoples Weekly World: An alternative news source that needs your support!
After the record-breaking fund drive of National Public Radio, it is clear people want to hear the stories from the alternative media. The alternatative media reports the stories censored by the corporate media.
They had no turkey for Thanksgiving
When I talked to her the Monday before Thanksgiving, Carolina Morales was standing in line at the food pantry run by St. Maurice Catholic Church in Chicago’s Southwest side. She had come to pick up sacks of food that, she said, “will make it possible for us to have dinner on Thanksgiving. It won’t be turkey and fixings, but it will be a decent meal.”
False friend wrote the book on backstabbing
The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919-57, is a strange book by an even stranger author.
Globalization and India
Despite the enthusiasm of its supporters economic globalization gives rise to fierce exploitation, economic instability and crisis.
Protesters press Greece on refugees, troops
ATHENS, Greece – Over 10,000 protesters gathered Nov. 8 in Syntagma (Constitution) Square here in a rally against the attacks on Afghanistan.
Is the truth ever disloyal?
Don’t bother us with facts, we’re fighting a war here. That’s basically the story of all wars – at least in their early stages – and this one against terrorism (which, as it turns out, is indistinguishable from a war with Afghanistan) is no exception.
