Privatization, no way
NEW YORK — Students, parents and teachers fed up with the Bloomberg administration’s drive to privatize public education took over Second Avenue for an evening rally Feb. 27, to protest plans by Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to reorganize the school system from the top down once again, without addressing real problems.
Immigrant rights struggle continues, in and out of Congress
The massive immigrant rights protests last year stopped Senate passage of the repressive HR 4437. But because the Republicans controlled Congress, it was not possible to pass legislation for legalization of the 12 million undocumented. Now that the Republicans have lost their majority, what does this bode for the immigrant rights movement?
Library to host forum on Communist Party history
New York University’s Tamiment Library and the Communist Party USA will hold a symposium March 23 on the “History of the Communist Party and Progressive Politics Today.”
Bay Area residents: We shall not be moved!
SAN FRANCISCO — When residents of one of the city’s last largely African American neighborhoods think about the future being planned for Bayview Hunters Point, they are haunted by echoes of an earlier “redevelopment” that devastated a vibrant area called the “Harlem of the West.”
No more environment left to wreck
Secretary of the Interior Gail Norton announced her resignation March 10, saying that there was “no more environment left to wreck” after five years at her Cabinet-level job.
Sunshine State janitors fight for a living wage
MIAMI — Hundreds of students, faculty, clergy, and community supporters marched through the University of Miami campus March 3 chanting, singing and carrying signs.
WORLDNOTES
Ecuador: Warning strike Southeast Africa: Mosquito-driven epidemic Netherlands: Remembering 1941 strike Bangladesh:Garment workers call strike Canada: Another Wal-Mart votes union
UN agency retreats on plan for Haitian police
The United Nations mission in Haiti has decided to postpone a tentative agreement that would have placed the Haitian National Police under direct UN control. The move, announced on March 10, came in the wake of widespread criticism that the agreement, if implemented, would undermine Haiti’s sovereignty.
Israel storms Jericho jail
Israeli troops using tanks, helicopters and bulldozers pounded a Palestinian-run prison in the West Bank town of Jericho March 14 to seize Ahmed Saadat, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and five others amid rumors that they might soon be released by the Palestinian Authority.
NATIONALCLIPS
GARY, Ind.: Black leaders urge economic empowerment BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Three students charged in church fires SAN FRANCISCO: Supervisors say, ‘Impeach Bush, Cheney’ RICHMOND, Va.: GOP spikes labor leader’s appointment
