[WW] How U.S. Blocks Palestinian Homeland

2000-05-17 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the May 25, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - EDITORIAL: HOW U.S. BLOCKS PALESTINIAN HOMELAND On May 15, the 52nd anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel, the still-occupied West

[WW] Sierra Leone History of Colonial Intervention

2000-05-17 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the May 25, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - SIERRA LEONE IN CRISIS: A HISTORY OF COLONIAL INTERVENTION By Johnnie Stevens Renewed fighting in Sierra Leone in the last few weeks should be

[WW] Feel Pride Through Vieques Struggle

2000-05-24 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the June 1, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - REPRESSION INCREASES AS WASHINGTON SCHEMES TO KEEP VIEQUES BASE By Berta Joubert-Ceci On May 18, four riot police brutally beat Robert Rabin, a

[WW] Death Penalty Foes Slam Candidates

2000-05-31 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the June 8, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - AS MORE EXECUTIONS LOOM: DEATH PENALTY FOES SLAM CANDIDATES Activists Tell Texas Gov. Bush: Don't Kill Shaka Sankofa (Gary Graham) By Elijah

[WW] U.S. Missile Shield Plan Alarms World

2000-06-07 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the June 15, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - FROM ASIA TO EUROPE: U.S. "MISSILE SHIELD" PLAN ALARMS WORLD By Fred Goldstein President Bill Clinton's latest tour of Western Europe, Russia

[WW] Houston: Activists Arrested At Graham Protest

2000-06-07 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the June 15, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - HOUSTON: ACTIVISTS ARRESTED AT GRAHAM PROTEST By Workers World Houston bureau Houston police arrested three activists at a May 31 demonstration

[WW] Continuing Key Martin's Revolutionary Legacy

2000-06-07 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the June 15, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - VIDEO FUND ESTABLISHED: CONTINUING KEY MARTIN'S REVOLUTIONARY LEGACY By Donna Goodman Workers World Party and activists from around the world

[WW] When Will Elian his Family Get to go Home?

2000-06-07 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the June 15, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - 500,000 WOMEN MARCH IN HAVANA: WHEN WILL ELIAN AND HIS FAMILY GET TO GO HOME? By Gloria La Riva How long will the charade of U.S. justice

[WW] Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans: Much to be PROUD of

2000-06-21 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the June 29, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - LESBIAN, GAY, BI, TRANS: MUCH TO BE PROUD OF By Elijah Crane It's Pride Month in the year 2000. Many are taking the opportunity to review and

[WW] Sankofa, Protesters Fight Legal Lynching

2000-06-28 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the July 6, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS: SANKOFA, PROTESTERS FIGHT LEGAL LYNCHING TO LAST MINUTE By Richard Becker Huntsville, Texas At 8:49 p.m. Central Daylight

[WW] Make Bush Pay for Killing Sankofa

2000-07-19 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the July 27, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - `MAKE BUSH PAY FOR KILLING SANKOFA": DEATH -PENALTY FOES TO MARCH ON PHILLY'S "WALL STREET" By Greg Butterfield Fighters against the death

[WW] Milwaukee Protests Bush

2000-07-19 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the July 27, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - MILWAUKEE PROTESTS BUSH By Phil Wilayto Milwaukee Texas Gov. George W. Bush's July 17 campaign stop in Milwaukee was met by demonstrators

[WW] Mumia Tears Away Bush's Mantle of Lincoln

2000-07-26 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 3, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - FROM DEATH ROW: MUMIA TEARS AWAY BUSH'S "MANTLE OF LINCOLN" By Mumia Abu-Jamal "Slavery is a blight on our history, and racism is still with us.

[WW] Philly: Clergy, Activists Denounce Cop Terror

2000-07-26 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 3, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - PHILADELPHIA: CLERGY, ACTIVISTS DENOUNCE COP TERROR By Betsey Piette Philadelphia An indoor interfaith rally against police brutality July 23

[WW] Philadelphia's History of Police Racism

2000-07-26 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 3, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - PHILADELPHIA'S HISTORY OF POLICE RACISM By Betsey Piette Philadelphia No Philadelphia police officer has ever been convicted for an on-duty

[WW] Letter from John Does at CFCF

2000-08-09 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 17, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - VOICES OF RESISITANCE: LETTER FROM JOHN DOES AT CFCF We are 24 male prisoners currently held at Curran-From hold Correctional Facility for our

[WW] Whiose Streets? Our Streets!

2000-08-09 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 17, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS! By Imani Henry Tuesday, Aug. 1. It was absolutely exhilarating to take the streets of Philadelphia and hold them

[WW] Anti-Racist Solidarity in a Philly Jail Cell

2000-08-09 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 17, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - REPORT OF A PARTICIPANT: ANTI-RACIST SOLIDARITY IN A PHILLY JAIL CELL By Larry Holmes When I was arrested in Philadelphia with many of my

[WW] R2K: Capitalist Democracy Bares its Teeth

2000-08-09 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 17, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - R2K PROTESTERS RESIST AS CAPITALIST "DEMOCRACY" BARES ITS TEETH By Fred Goldstein The "great" U.S. system of capitalist democracy showed its

[WW] Philly: Supporters Aid Jailed Activists

2000-08-09 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 17, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - PHILADELPHIA: SUPPORTERS AID JAILED ACTIVISTS As of Aug. 9, some 323 protesters against the prison- industrial complex and the death penalty were

[WW] Socialist Candidates: Organize ...to Free Mumia!

2000-08-09 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 17, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - SOCIALIST CANDIDATES: "ORGANIZE MILLIONS TO FREE MUMIA!" By Monica Moorehead [Workers World Party 2000 Candidates Monica Moorehead and Gloria

[WW] Protesters Unmask Democratic Convention

2000-08-09 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 17, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - AS RICH PACKAGE CANDIDATES: PROTESTERS UNMASK DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION Street Actions Challenge Racist Repression War By Richard Becker Why do

[WW] 86,000 Workers Strike Telecom Giant

2000-08-09 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 17, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - READY TO FIGHT IN 2000: 86,000 WORKERS STRIKE TELECOM GIANT By Shelley Ettinger As of the evening of Aug. 8, over 86,000 workers in 13 states

[WW] Immigrant Workers Lead Labor's Upsurge

2000-09-06 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 14, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - IMMIGRANT WORKERS LEAD LABOR'S UPSURGE Organizing Victories from Los Angeles to New York By John Catalinotto Immigrant workers are emerging as

[WW] Firestone: Time for Workers to Take Charge

2000-09-06 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 14, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - LESSONS OF FIRESTONE TIRE CRISIS: SHOULD WORKERS TAKE OVER THEIR INDUSTRY? By Milt Neidenberg Could the tragic loss of life and serious

[WW] Who's a Murderer, Giuliani?

2000-09-06 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 14, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - EDITORIAL: WHO'S A MURDERER, GIULIANI? The United Nations Millennium Summit opened Sept. 6 in New York. Over 150 heads of state gathered there.

[WW] Cuban President at UN Summit

2000-09-13 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 21, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - CUBAN PRESIDENT AT UN SUMMIT: "WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR MILLIONS OF CHIDLREN TO DIE" [Speech by President Fidel Castro Ruz, during Roundtable

[WW] Fidel Castro Visits NYC

2000-09-13 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 21, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - FIDEL CASTRO VISITS NEW YORK CITY By Teresa Gutierrez New York Fidel in New York City! Years from now all of us who had the tremendous good

[WW] Protesters, Cops Clash at Economic Olympics

2000-09-13 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 21, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - PROTESTERS, COPS CLASH AT "ECONOMIC OLYMPICS" Australian activists: End Global Exploitation and Inequality Now! By Gery Armsby Just days before

[WW] Harlem Turns out for Cuban Leader

2000-09-13 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 21, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - NOW AS IN 1960: HARLEM TURNS OUT FOR CUBAN LEADER By Deirdre Griswold New York Forty years after his first visit to Harlem as head of an

[WW] Spies, Lies and U.S. - China Relations

2000-09-13 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 21, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - EDITORIAL: SPIES, LIES AND U.S. - CHINA RELATIONS fter holding physicist Wen Ho Lee in shackles for nine months and refusing to let him speak

[WW] Selma Elects First Black Mayor

2000-09-13 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 21, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - SELMA ELECTS FIRST BLACK MAYOR: "JOE'S GOTTA GO!" COMMUNITY SAYS By Dianne Mathiowetz Jubilation spread quickly through the streets of Selma,

[WW] Buffalo, N.Y., Teachers vs. Anti-Union Law

2000-09-20 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 28, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - AFTER UNION CHALLENGES ANTI-LABOR LAW, AUTHORITIES PUT BUFFALO, N.Y. TEACHERS UNDER THE GUN By Beverly Hiestand Buffalo, N.Y. Nearly 3,800

[WW] IAC Leaders Stand Trial

2000-09-20 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 28, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - COP SPYING ON MOVEMENT EXPOSED/ INT'L ACTION CENTER LEADERS STAND TRIAL Special to Workers World The trial of two key International Action

[WW] Iraq Threatened: Behind Washington's 2-Faced Policy

2000-09-20 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 28, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - IRAQ THREATENED AGAIN: BEHIND WASHINGTON'S TWO- FACED POLICY By Brian Becker and Sarah Sloan Speaking from his Pentagon post, U.S. Secretary of

[WW] Yugoslavia Poll: U.S. EU wield Carrot Stick

2000-09-20 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 28, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - YUGOSLAVIA ELECTIONS: U.S., W. EUROPE USE CARROT STICK By John Catalinotto With the big vote set for Sept. 24, the European Union and the

[WW] Wide Support for Los Angeles Strikers

2000-09-20 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 28, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - RIDERS BLAME TRANSIT BOSSES: WIDE SUPPORT FOR LOS ANGELES STRIKERS Shutdown Halts Buses, Subways Rail Lines By Preston Wood Los Angeles

[WW] Milosevic Warns Yugoslavs

2000-10-04 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Oct. 12, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - MILOSEVIC WARNS YUGOSLAVS: "NATO POWERS ARE BEHIND OPPOSITION" [Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic spoke to the nation on Oct. 2 over radio

[WW] Mongolia and Yugoslavia

2000-10-04 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Oct. 12, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - EDITORIAL: MONGOLIA AND YUGOSLAVIA Can "free elections" be the mechanism by which a counter- revolutionary group climbs into the saddle in a

[WW] Abortion Pill: Victory but not Cure-All

2000-10-04 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Oct. 12, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - THE "ABORTION PILL": A VICTORY BUT NOT CURE-ALL By Ellen Catalinotto Certified Nurse-Midwife New York On Sept. 28 the Food and Drug

[WW] Message to Million Family March

2000-10-11 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Oct. 19, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - MESSAGE TO MILLION FAMILY MARCH [Workers World Party candidates Monica Moorehead and Gloria La Riva issued the following statement to the Oct. 16

[WW] Belgrade: Struggle Continues Despite Setback

2000-10-11 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Oct. 19, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTS IN YUGOSLAVIA: STRUGGLE CONTINUES DESPITE SETBACK IN BELGRADE By Sara Flounders and John Catalinotto Faced

[WW] IAC Speaks to Anti-Globalization Movement

2000-10-11 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Oct. 19, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER SPEAKS TO THE ANTI- GLOBALIZATION MOVEMENT: WHAT YOUR SHOULD KNOW ABOUT EVENTS IN YUGOSLAVIA [The International Action

[WW] Middle East Rises in Solidarity

2000-10-11 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Oct. 19, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - MIDDLE EAST RISES IN SOLIDARITY By Joyce Chediac Hundreds of thousands of Arabs, Iranians and other peoples of the Middle East have taken to the

[WW] Tremors Rattle Middle East

2000-10-18 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Oct. 26, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - TREMORS RATTLE MIDDLE EAST: U.S. CLIENT REGIMES FEAR MASS UPRISINGS By Joyce Chediac A great wave of anti-imperialist protest is sweeping the

[WW] Lockerbie, USS Cole: Wash. Puts Political Aims Before Facts

2000-10-18 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Oct. 26, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - LOCKERBIE, USS COLE: WASHINGTON PUTS POLITCIAL AIMS BEFORE FACTS By Deirdre Griswold Over 100 agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and

[WW] Solidarity with Palestine

2000-10-18 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Oct. 26, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - FROM EGYPT TO ABU DHABI: ROUNDUP OF SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE By Joyce Chediac The following sampling of protests, gathered from Middle Eastern

[WW] Anti-Capitalist Youths Challenge IMF in Montreal

2000-10-25 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Nov. 2, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - ANTI-CAPITALIST YOUTHS CHALLENGE IMF IN MONTREAL: STUDENTS, COPS CLASH AT BANKERS' SUMMIT By Josina Dunkel Montreal First in Seattle, then

[WW] Jewish Unionist Urges Solidarity with Palestine

2000-10-25 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Nov. 2, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - NEW YORK: JEWISH UNIONIST URGES SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE By Brian Becker New York [The following are excerpts from a speech delivered by Hillel

[WW] Cuba: Mass Action Counters U.S. Theft

2000-10-25 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Nov. 2, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - A MILLION MARCH IN CUBA: MASS ACTION COUNTERS U.S. THEFT By Gloria La Riva In response to the latest U.S. actions against their socialist island,

[WW] Fidel Gets Hero's Welcome in Venezuela

2000-11-01 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Nov. 9, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - FIDEL GETS HERO'S WELCOME IN VENEZUELA: FORGING TIES ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN By Teresa Gutierrez Two important Latin American heads of state held a

[WW] Election Fraud: Millions Can't Vote in U.S.

2000-11-08 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Nov. 16, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - ELECTION FRAUD: MILLIONS CAN'T VOTE IN U.S. By Deirdre Griswold If any truly independent body of international election monitors existed, it

[WW] Florida WWP Supporter Jailed

2000-11-08 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Nov. 16, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - FLORIDA WWP SUPPORTER JAILED Wil Van Natta, the Florida state chairperson for Workers World Party's Moorehead-La Riva campaign, was arrested by

[WW] Intervention in Name of Democracy

2000-11-15 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Nov. 23, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - VOTERS BEWARE: INTERVENTION IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY By Deirdre Griswold How many times in recent days have we heard politicians and media

[WW] 1876: Electoral College Crushed Black Freedom

2000-11-15 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Nov. 23, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - RIGGED ELECTIONS IN 1876: BLACK FREEDOM CRUSHED BY ELECTORAL COLLEGE [The following is excerpted from Chapter 34 of "Market Elections" by Vince

[WW]

2000-11-15 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Nov. 23, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY The Star, Johannesburg, South Africa: "International observers should be put in place because the United States must join

[WW] Gore Won't Say it but: U.S. Elections are Racist

2000-11-15 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Nov. 23, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - GORE WON'T SAY IT BUT: U.S. ELECTIONS ARE RACIST By Monica Moorehead The big-business media have strained to put a positive spin on the weeklong

[WW] Turkish Repression Made in USA

2000-12-13 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Dec. 21, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - TURKISH REPRESSION MADE IN USA: "COURAGE DETERMINATION" FUEL PRISON HUNGER STRIKE By Cemile Cakir and Frank Neisser Some 1,000 political

[WW] Racist Attack on Voting Rights Looms Large

2000-12-13 Thread janet
groups like the NAACP and former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee activists have called for a federal investigation into the Florida voting-rights irregularities. So far U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and other government officials have ignored their demands. In fact, the bosses of C

[WW] Big Layoffs Announced Just Before Holidays

2000-12-20 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Dec. 28, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - SCROOGED AGAIN: BIG LAYOFFS ANNOUNCED JUST BEFORE HOLIDAYS By Gary Wilson Scrooge was an amateur compared to the bosses of the giant

[WW] Hunger Strike By Turkish Prisoners Grows

2001-01-03 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Jan. 11, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - HUNGAR STRIKE BY TURKISH PRISONERS GROWS: MASSACRE CAN'T STOP RESISTANCE By Cemile Cakir and Frank Neisser They went on hunger strike because

[WW] Delegation to Defy U.S. Policy on Iraq, Palestine

2001-01-03 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Jan. 11, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - SANCTIONS CHALLENGE IV: DELEGATION SET TO DEFY U.S. POLICY ON IRAQ, PALESTINE By Greg Butterfield Led by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey

[WW] Activists Step Up Plans for Inaugural Protest

2001-01-03 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Jan. 11, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - ACTIVISTS STEP UP PLANS FOR INAUGURAL PROTEST By Elijah Crane Activists ushered in the New Year by stepping up plans for the Jan. 20 protest in

[WW] Not Just a Coup

2001-01-17 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Jan. 25, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - EDITORIAL: NOT JUST A COUP As we go to press on Jan. 17, sources in the imperialist governments of Belgium, Britain and the United States are

[WW] Rebel Against Racism

2001-01-17 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Jan. 25, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - REBEL AGAINST RACISM! By Monica Moorehead and Larry Holmes Martin Luther King III, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,

[WW] J20 Lawsuit Challenges Gov't Repression

2001-01-17 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Jan. 25, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER: J20 LAWSUIT CHALLENGES GOV'T REPRESSION [The International Action Center issued the following statement from Teresa

[WW] Oklahoma Executes Disabled Black Lesbian

2001-01-17 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Jan. 25, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - WANDA JEAN ALLEN: OKLAHOMA EXECUTES DISABLED BLACK LESBIAN By Elijah Crane On Jan. 11, the state of Oklahoma executed Wanda Jean Allen, an

[WW] Mass Protests Confront Bush at Inauguration

2001-01-24 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Feb. 1, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - FROM DAY I: MASS PROTESTS CONFRONT BUSH AT INAUGURATION/ TENS OF THOUSANDS SAY HE'S RACIST, SEXIST, ANTI-GAY By Greg Butterfield Washington "We

[WW] After J20: Build an Anti-Capitalist Movement

2001-01-24 Thread janet
ey and their Justice Department, headed by Janet Reno, did nothing to safeguard women's clinics from continued bombings and terrorist attacks and did not stop the assassinations of many of our doctors and health-care workers who were brave enough to continue to provide abortion services to women

[WW] San Diego Anti-Bush Protest

2001-01-24 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Feb. 1, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - SAN DIEGO: ANGRY ANTI-BUSH PROTEST TAKES TO THE STREETS By Workers World San Diego bureau San Diego saw an angry, multinational outpouring of

[WW] 20,000 March Against Bush in San Francisco

2001-01-24 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Feb. 1, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - 20,000 MARCH AGAINST BUSH IN SAN FRANCISCO By Bill Hackwell San Francisco "The one good thing about the selection of Bush to be president by an

[WW] DaimlerChrysler Zaps 26,000 Jobs

2001-02-01 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Feb. 8, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - TIME TO FIGHT BACK: DAIMLERCHRYSLER ZAPS 26,000 JOBS By Martha Grevatt The writer has worked at the Twinsburg, Ohio stamping plant of the

[WW] Ashcroft: He Can Be Fought

2001-02-01 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Feb. 8, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - HE CAN BE DEFEATED: JOHN ASHCROFT: A RECORD OF RACISM, WOMAN-HATING AND GAY BASHING By Monica Moorehead President George W. Bush's nomination of

[WW] Earthquakes: Just How Natural the Disaster?

2001-02-01 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Feb. 8, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - EARTHQUAKES IN EL SALVAOR INDIA: JUST HOW NATURAL IS THE DISASTER? By Greg Butterfield In January powerful earthquakes ripped through two of the

[WW] Lockerbie: Behind the Sham Conviction

2001-02-07 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Feb. 15, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - EVIDENCE "VERY WEAK": WASHINGTON USES LOCKERBIE TRIAL TO ATTACK LIBYA By John Catalinotto Even Robert Black, the Scottish law professor who

[WW] Ashcroft and Women's Rights

2001-02-07 Thread janet
tions and the true character of the capitalist state. This is not about a Democratic or Republican administration. It is about the system that underlies both. When Janet Reno headed the Justice Department under Clinton, in spite of her being a woman and a so-called moderate, the prisons were filled

[WW] Walking Across U.S. for Welfare Moms, Homeless

2001-02-14 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Feb. 22, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - KIM DENMARK ROSE PATTON: WALKING ACROSS U.S. FOR WELFARE MOTHERS AND HOMELESS By Elijah Crane New York Kim Denmark is walking across the U.S.

[WW] Israeli Election: War Criminal Wins

2001-02-14 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Feb. 22, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - RACIST MASS MURDERER ELECTED AS ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER By Richard Becker Ariel Sharon, leader of the Likud party, was elected on Feb. 6 as

[WW] What Sinking of Japanese Boat Reveals

2001-02-21 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 1, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - HAWAII: SINKING OF JAPANESE SHIP EXPOSES U.S. MILITARY RECKLESSNESS By Chris Fry Honolulu On Feb. 9, a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine sank a

[WW] California Power Crisis

2001-02-21 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 1, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - GLOBALIZATION COMES HOME: CALIFORNIA POWER CRISIS By Fred Goldstein Globalization, neoliberalism, the subordination of human need to

[WW] Palestinian View of Sharon-Barak

2001-02-21 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 1, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - INTERVIEW WITH MAJED NASSAR: A PALESTINIAN VIEW OF SHARON-BARAK [The following is excerpted from a translation of an interview in French with

[WW] Int'l Women's Day vs. Sweatshops

2001-03-07 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 15, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY: WORKERS FROM MANY COUNTRIES HIT SWEATSHOPS By Anne Pruden New York A march against low pay and oppressive working

[WW] Report from the EZLN Caravan

2001-03-07 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 15, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - REPORT FROM THE EZLN CARAVAN: BROAD CONGRESS DEMANDS INDIGENOUS RIGHTS By Gloria La Riva Nurio, Michoacn, Mexico As the March for Indigenous

[WW] Why We Must Support Rebels in Colombia

2001-03-14 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 22, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - MESSAGE TO THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT: WHY WE MUST SUPPORT REBELS IN COLOMBIA By Teresa Gutierrez Plan Colombia has placed U.S. intervention in

[WW] U.S.-NATO Occupation is Colonialism

2001-03-14 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 22, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - KOSOVO AND MACEDONIA: U.S. -NATO OCCUPATION IS COLONIALISM By John Catalinotto The 21-month occupation of Kosovo by U.S. and NATO troops has

[WW] Eyewitness south Korea

2001-03-21 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 29, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - EYEWITNESS SOUTH KOREA: WORKERS STUDENTS BATTLE U.S. WAR CRIMES, ECONOMIC DOMINATION By Brian Becker Seoul, Korea Brian Becker is a

[WW] Japan's Economic Crisis

2001-03-21 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 29, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - GLOBAL CAPITALISM IN CRISIS: JAPAN ECONOMY BUCKLES AS U.S. MARKETS SHRINK By Deirdre Griswold Prices are dropping in Japan. The country is in a

[WW] Flight Attendants: United We Stand

2001-03-21 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 29, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - FLIGHT ATTENDANTS: "UNITED WE STAND" By Michelle Quintus United flight attendant Association of Flight Attendants, Council 5 On March 17, the

[WW] Markets Yo-yo as Jobs Disappear

2001-03-28 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the April 5, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - LAYOFFS RISE, FIRMS CUT BACK; MARKETS YO-YO AS JOBS DISAPPEAR By Fred Goldstein On March 28, a day on which the Dow Jones average on the stock

[WW] All Out Against the FTAA!

2001-03-28 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the April 5, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - HUGE PROTESTS EXPECTED IN QUEBEC CITY: ALL OUT AGAINST THE FTAA! By Gery Armsby Quebec City, Canada Labor unions, environmental groups and

[WW] Efforts to Free Mumia into High Gear

2001-03-28 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the April 5, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - EFFORTS TO FREE MUMIA GO INTO HIGH GEAR By Monica Moorehead Revolutionaries and anti-racist activists all over the world, including inside the

[WW] Palestine: No Honest Broker in Washington

2001-04-04 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the April 12, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - NO "HONEST BROKER" IN WASHINGTON: BUSH WANTS PALESTINIANS TO STOP RESISTING ISRAELI TERROR By Richard Becker Since the new Intifada (Uprising)

[WW] Bold Action Against Racial Profiling

2001-04-04 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the April 12, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - BOLD ACTION AGAINST RACIAL PROFILING: "JIM CROW MUST GO, FROM CHEEKTOWAGA TO BUFFALO By Leslie Feinberg Cheektowaga, N.Y. "Jim Crow must go,

[WW] Fidel Castro on the FTAA

2001-04-18 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the April 26, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - FIDEL CASTRO ON THE FTAA [Excerpts from an article in Granma about an April 16 speech by Fidel Castro.] Cuban President Fidel Castro ... warned

[WW] Hit the CITI, Save the Planet!

2001-04-18 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the April 26, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - HIT THE CITI, SAVE THE PLANET! Environmental activists unfurled a 20-foot banner from flagpoles outside of Citigroup's Manhattan headquarters

[WW] Mumia to Anti-FTAA Activists

2001-04-18 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the April 26, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - FROM DEATH ROW MUMIA TO ANTI-FTAA ACTIVISTS: POWER TO THE PEOPLE! By Mumia Abu-Jamal I think that we must pay strict attention to the Seattle

[WW] N.Y. Boycott Gains Support

2001-04-18 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the April 26, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y.: ANTI-RACIST BOYCOTT GAINS STRENGTH SUPPORT By Leslie Feinberg Cheektowaga, N.Y. Placards held aloft outside the Walden

[WW] Stop U.S.-Israeli Aggression!

2001-04-18 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the April 26, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - EDITORIAL: STOP U.S.-ISRAELI AGGRESSION! It is impossible to understand the latest Israeli escalation of the war against the Palestinian and

[WW] WBAI'S Radio in Exile

2001-04-26 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the May 3, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - PROTEST PLANNED aPRIL 28: fANS HEAR FULL DAY OF WBAI RADIO IN EXILE By John Catalinotto New York The hundreds of people who packed the Theater for

[WW] Anti-Capitalist Youths Storm Wall of Shame

2001-04-26 Thread janet
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the May 3, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - QUEBEC CITY SUMMIT: ANTI-CAPITALIST YOUTHS STORM WALL OF SHAME CHEERED ON BY SYMPATHETIC POPULACE By Deirdre Griswold Quebec City, Quebec Is there

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