Is a recession on the horizon?
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary John Snow called it “terrific news on jobs” when the government reported last week that 274,000 jobs were generated in April, higher than expected even though the 5.2 percent jobless rate remained unchanged.
UN nuclear talks stalled by Bush policies
UNITED NATIONS — The UN opened its review of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) amid an unprecedented level of antinuclear activity by more than 1,700 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Yet, the conference has stalled mainly due to the U.S. refusal to adhere to commitments it made in 1995 and 2000.
St. Louis salutes peoples champions
ST. LOUIS — The Missouri/Kansas Friends of the People’s Weekly World annual awards breakfast always draws a crowd. This year was no different.
Building for the future
Sunlight streams into the People’s Weekly World’s new editorial office in Chicago’s Unity Center as graphic designer Marguerite Wright lays out a page on her computer. In Los Angeles, PWW contributing writer Rosalio Muñoz taps out an e-mail in the cheerful, freshly painted Los Angeles Workers Center. In New York’s renovated Unity Center meeting hall, PWW reporter Dan Margolis helps host a reception for representatives of the global antinuclear movement who converged on the United Nations this month. The three buildings are the focus of a nationwide capital fundraising campaign to build a solid financial base for these “community centers of education and struggle.”
Student protesters: Stop GOP drive to gag Senate
WASHINGTON — College students gathered in the shadow of the Capitol, May 11, for a 24-hour “Frist filibuster” to protest Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s threatened “nuclear option.” Frist is seeking 50 votes to repeal the Senate’s 200-year tradition of open debate.
More money down the drain: War cost bleeds states, cities
As U.S. casualties in Iraq topped 1,600, the U.S. Congress approved another $82 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and related spending, with the bulk going to the Iraq occupation.
Iowa author tells The Truth in latest book
Book review The Truth By Mike Palecek Writers Publishing Cooperative, 2003, paperback, 234 pp, $16.95. To order call (888) 874-6904 or visit www.essentialbooks.com.
Every Mothers Son
Film review Film about police brutality wins Tribeca award Every Mother’s Son “In the winter of 1994, police killings were on our minds because they were so much a part of our environment in New York City,” directors Kelly Anderson and Tami Gold explained in a statement.
The Illinois drivers license bill the real story
Opinion While the struggle continues for legal status for the undocumented, immigrant communities and their allies continue to fight for several related goals.
Havent we learned anything from the Holocaust?
Opinion I wanted to stay out of it, hoping that someone else would make a comparison between the torturers in the Iraqi prisons and the Nazi death camps. But I can’t.
