David vs. Goliath in Evergreen State
EVERETT, Wash. – A small public utility district here with 290,000 customers has been catapulted into national prominence by lifting the curtain on Enron energy traders gleefully conspiring to steal money from “those poor grandmothers in California.
Congress OKs massive theft of Native land
The “Western Shoshone Distribution Bill” (S 618/HR 884) has passed both houses of Congress and is on its way to the Bush administration for signature.
International notes
Angola: Parliament OKs AIDS bill / Israel: Ex-soldiers open exhibit on harassment / Honduras: Teachers block roads for pay hike
58 students, 57 teachers: Cuba tackles autism
HAVANA – At the Dora Alonso school for autistic children there are 58 students and 57 teachers. The school is bright, colorful and clean. It is in the middle of a campus full of schools.
National Clips
CHARLESTON, S.C.: Independent truckers strike ports / SAVANNAH, Ga.: City Council condemns Patriot Act / WASHINGTON, D.C.: Protests over juvenile death penalty
Caravan to Cuba defies new U.S. restrictions
MILWAUKEE – Activists held a day-long series of events here for the 15th Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba. Since 1992, the caravan has challenged the U.S. embargo by sending busloads of aid to the Cuban people (80 tons last year).
Activists prepare for freedom summer
Over 100 students, civil rights and labor activists will work this summer to systematically increase the immigrant voting constituency in the electoral “battleground” states of Arizona and Florida, in the New American Freedom Summer 2004.
Fahrenheit 9/11 sizzles across the nation
“Fahrenheit 9/11” turned up the heat on the Bush administration this week as Americans packed movie houses, hungry for information to help them understand the terrible path down which this president has led our country.
Iraq: Where did the $20 billion go?
The U.S. occupation and its corporate cronies have ripped off Iraq’s oil wealth and ravaged the country’s infrastructure, several new reports show. Coalition Provisional Authority boss L. Paul Bremer slinked out of Iraq June 28 after turning nominal power over to an Iraqi interim government.
Pride mixes with politics in New York City march
NEW YORK – The estimated 1.5 million participants in the June 27 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride March here celebrated the past but kept an eye on the future.
