Aug 31, 2002

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – One morning, a week before Labor Day, a dozen volunteers were working the phones to elect union longshoreman, Tony Hill, to the Florida Senate.

LA HABANA (Prensa Latina) - Como un encantador de serpiente, Estados Unidos sopla su flauta para tratar de adormecer con su melodía a los pueblos asiáticos·y poder ejecutar sus nefastos designios de dominación y subordinación militares con su denominada campaña global antiterrorista.

At his Waco, Tex., CEO pep rally on the economy, President Bush announced he intended to enforce “spending restraint” by blocking a $5.1 billion emergency spending bill passed by Congress which included $90 million for long-term health monitoring of World Trade Center (WTC) rescue workers and volunteers who were exposed to a catastrophe with potential long-term health and environmental consequences.

Responding to the demands of the drug monopolies, the Bush Administration killed the demand to give seniors on Medicare an affordable prescription drug benefit. A recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund and Tufts Unviersity-New England Medical Center found that nearly one-quarter of seniors cannot afford and therefore do not take medical doses prescribed by their physicians. The study also found that one in four seniors spend $100 or more per month on prescription drugs.

In a statement issued on August 20, Ken Georgetti, president of the 2.5 million-member Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) said, "Canadian workers are watching with growing disbelief the U.S. government’s preparations for a full-scale attack against Iraq and they want nothing to do with it.

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (Prensa Asociada) - Una corte federal de apelación se ganó elogios de abogados de los medios de comunicación y activistas de derechos civiles después de tomar la decisión que el gobierno no puede tener vistas secretas de deportación para un hombre libanés que el gobierno sospecha de tener lazos terrorista.

Una creciente oposición al planeado ataque contra Irak, de parte de la administración Bush, hasta de republicanos derechistas, proveé una “oportunidad” para prevenir tal guerra nos dijo Kathy Kelly, coordinadora de Voices in the Wilderness, un grupo humanitario que trabaja para poner fin a las sanciones económicas contra Irak. “Yo espero que todo grupo de base desarrolle una campaña de resistencia no violenta, incluyendo ocupar las oficinas del Congreso, si es necesario” para parar una guerra estadounidense contra Irak, ella dijo.

JOHANESBURGO - La Cumbre Mundial sobre Desarrollo Sostenible de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (CMDS) empezó el lunes, 26 de agosto en esta ciudad de Sudáfrica. Se esperan más de 20 mil participantes.

LOS ANGELES – When Maersk Sealand, the largest shipping company in the world, opened its new facility, the largest terminal in the world, in the Port of Los Angeles Aug. 15, it threw itself a grand opening party. But nearly 2,000 fired-up longshore workers and their supporters crashed the bash, demanding that Maersk, one of the hard-line PMA members in the current contract negotiations, drop its push for concessions from the union.

JOHANNESBURG – The United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) opened on Aug. 26 here. Over 20,000 participants are expected to attend.