Sep 14, 2002

CLEVELAND – The Cleveland City Council, at its Sept. 9 meeting, unanimously passed a resolution demanding that “Cargill Deicing Technology restore former strikers to their rightful jobs”, and urging “the Mayor of the City of Cleveland to refrain from buying Cargill salt until the former strikers return to their jobs.”

NEW YORK – As events marked the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, New Yorkers, in all their diversity, turned out to remember those who died, to honor those who rushed to the aid of the World Trade Center (WTC) victims and to call for peaceful solutions to terrorism.

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The first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks was marked by vigils, rallies, marches and memorial services. But those who live and work in lower Manhattan – as well as the 30,000 workers who cleaned the World Trade Center (WTC) site – have many unanswered concerns and questions about their health and environment.

El congresista Nick Rahall, un demócrata que ha sido electo 13 veces por West Virginia, y el ex senador por Dakota del Sur, James Abourezk, salieron para Bagdad el 13 de septiembre con una delegación independiente estadounidense buscando “enfriar la retórica de guerra.”

WASHINGTON – Civil liberties, civil rights, labor, women’s equality and environmental groups were set to rally outside the U.S. Department of Justice Sept. 13 to protest the sweeping attacks on the Bill of Rights imposed by Attorney General John Ashcroft behind “closed doors.”

About 100 African-American farmers picketed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington Aug. 22 to protest stalling on delivery of restitution payments for thousands of Black farmers who were denied government crop loans because they are Black.

Nada es más fundamental al concepto de Estados Unidos de si mismo que la libertad de expresión y de asamblea. Sindicatos, declarados ilegal en los primeros años de la República, han luchado por estos derechos por tres siglos. Pero sindicalistas todavía no han ganado completamente el más mínimo derecho de organizar en el sitio de trabajo y protestar a través del paro.

Nothing is more fundamental to America’s conception of itself than the freedom of speech and assembly. Unions, declared illegal in the early years of the republic, have fought for those rights for three centuries. But unionists have still not entirely won the most basic right: to organize at the workplace and to protest bad conditions by refusing to work.

LOS ANGELES – California Gov. Gray Davis joined with the state legislature, Rev. Jesse Jackson and scores of leaders here, warning President George W. Bush not to intervene in the contract negotiations of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) with their employer, the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA).

A broad nationwide grassroots coalition of labor, ethnic, religious and community groups is working to collect signatures on a million postcards demanding immigration policies that allow undocumented immigrants in the United States to earn legal status.