At 300 vigils, the cry is, Dont let Bush take away kids health care!
WASHINGTON — Two-year old Bethany Wilkerson was making such a healthy, happy ruckus during a Capitol Hill rally, Oct. 16, that her mother, Dara, had to hand her over to the child’s father so she could appeal to Congress to override President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Are the Jena 6 victims of GOP dirty tricks?
Louisiana’s LaSalle Parish Judge J.P. Mauffray ordered 17-year-old Mychal Bell back to jail for another 18 months Oct. 12, stirring outrage across the nation since an appeals court threw out Bell’s conviction as an adult on battery charges and the district attorney declined to retry Bell as a juvenile.
THIS WEEK IN LABOR: Oct. 13
A big fat rat Cheers for a living wage Teachers endorse Obama, Clinton Coalition of Labor Union Women convenes Union members casting e-ballots Home Depot targeted by Steelworkers Another anti-labor move The fightback at Wal-Mart Union/nonunion contrast in the mines
Making dry bones come alive in New Orleans
It takes a leap of faith to believe that this lovely city can be rebuilt from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, given the cruelty of President Bush who concealed his administration’s abandonment of the working people of New Orleans with honey-sweet promises, all of them broken.
Somethings rotten in Shangri-la
Drive 60 miles northwest of Manhattan and you’re on a New Jersey road winding beneath mountain ridges exploding with fall colors reflected in a string of lakes. As you think you might be in Shangri-la, you pass a billboard proclaiming, “Welcome to West Milford — a Clean Community,” signed by the Republican mayor. An American flag flutters atop a pole next to it.
Year of the Woman? Not in election coverage!
How many elections can be hailed as “The Year of the Woman” before anything actually changes? Hint: no answer to this question exists yet.
Worry and anger as autoworkers study pact
Many autoworkers, back after their strike against GM, are worried or angry about concessions the company insisted on in the new contract.
Children demand Health care, not warfare
Children marched to the White House Oct. 2 pulling red wagons filled with petitions demanding that President Bush drop his plan to veto legislation passed by the Senate and House that would extend the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and expand it to cover an additional 4 million children.
This first draft needs work
This is the response I had when reading the first draft of the reauthorization proposals for No Child Left Behind put forth last week in the House: Nice try, you are beginning to figure out how deeply flawed the law is, but maybe you weren’t paying attention when educators told you what needed to be fixed. Go back to your notes, figure it out, and let us know when you do.
EDITORIAL: From Little Rock to Jena
This week the nation observed the 50th anniversary of the struggle to integrate public schools in Little Rock, Ark. It came just one week after 50,000 protesters converged on Jena, La., to protest the criminalization of six African American youths for daring to stand up against lynch nooses hung on a tree at their high school. It is especially outrageous that one of the Jena Six, Mychal Bell, remains in jail even though an appeals court threw out his conviction.
