Protests to meet Mayors' Conference
MADISON – The United States Conference of Mayors will be here shortly. Banners announcing their 70th annual convention adorn street signs in the vicinity of the capitol, and veteran protester Ben Masel appeared on local television a few nights ago announcing a compromise with the Mayor and Police Chief concerning the size of the protest-free zone around the event.
The U.S. role in the Venezuelan coup
When the coup took place in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 11, the usurper of the U.S. Presidency, George W. Bush, had his press agent, Ari Fleischer, state, “Chavez brought it on himself.”
A measure of the man Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould, a world-renowned scientist whose life bridged humanity, science and social involvement, died in May of lung cancer at age 60.
Juneteenth celebrates emancipation
“Juneteenth,” June 19, is the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery in the U.S. On June 19, 1865, Union General Granger and his regiment arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation two and a half years after it was issued.
Ashcrofts guidelines threaten Bill of Rights
Attorney General John Ashcroft has just issued new guidelines for FBI surveillance and investigations, which threaten to take us back to the days of J.Edgar Hoover. He has now virtually given absolute power to FBI field office directors to investigate anybody and everybody at their own discretion.
RadFest 2002
WILLIAMS BAY, Wisc. – Here on the rustic lakeshore George Williams-Lake Geneva campus of Aurora University, about 235 scholars and activists came together May 31 to June 2 for RadFest 2002. The event is the latest in a series of annual gatherings that have been held throughout Wisconsin.
A lively workshop at RadFest
One RadFest workshop that drew the lively participation of about 30 activists was the panel on “Socialism in Cuba” featuring John Gilman.
March for detainees
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Hundreds of demonstrators attended a rally on Coney Island Avenue and Newkirk Ave. here June 9 to demand the release of detainees being held under the USA Patriot Act. The rally was organized by a coalition of Arab-American groups.
Student-worker coalition scores victory at Stanford
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Victory! After a three-night sleep-out in front of the Stanford University president’s office, over 100 students joined campus workers at midnight May 31 to celebrate huge gains won by employees of Bon Appetit, an outside company that owns restaurants in the campus student union.
Unemployment by the numbers
Thousands of workers laid off immediately after Sept. 11 have lost their unemployment benefits, exhausting the 13- week extension that was passed in March. But the big corporations are still collecting the tax cuts that Congress gave them as part of the unemployment extension package.
