DETROIT, Mich. – “The entire Democratic congressional delegation from Michigan, with the exception of one, voted no on war with Iraq,” Rep. Carolyn Cheeks-Kilpatrick (D-Mich.) told an audience at the headquarters of Service Employees Union Local 79, Oct. 12. “Our delegation stood strong. The President was wrong on this one,” she told the cheering crowd. 
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Oct 19, 2002
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Defend the Bill of Rights / Will Bush and Congress strip children of CHIP benefits?
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Review
NEW YORK – One by one they emerge out of the darkness onto the stage. One by one they begin to tell their stories – each one different; each one the same. They are the lucky ones. They are “the exonerated.”
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Commentary
The 1985 attempt by Jim Ryan, the Republican candidate for governor and Joe Birkett, the Republican candidate for Illinois attorney general, to frame two Latino men has become a red-hot issue in the Illinois elections.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. – Some 150 volunteers and campaign staff streamed out of a send-off meeting at the labor center here Oct. 13, headed for a day of door-to-door canvassing to re-elect labor-backed progressive Sen. Paul Wellstone, who is at the top of the Bush administration’s election hit-list.
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LOS ANGELES – The West Coast waterfront battle is moving beyond the docks to the Nov. 5 elections as the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and giant retailers make clear their aim to destroy the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) through union-busting legislation in the new Congress next January.
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Worker’s correspondence
The seven days between Sept. 19 and Sept. 26 will long be remembered as “turnaround days” at Local 100, Transport Workers Union.
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Australia: CP condemns Bali terrorist bombing / Venezuela: Two million march for Chavez / China: Developing own anti-HIV drugs / South Africa: Gov’t acts to lower food prices
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NAZARETH – The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) convened its 27th Congress amidst the crisis of the continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and an escalating attack on social security, civil rights and democracy by the right-wing Sharon government.
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PHILADELPHIA – As part of a Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) tour, Aliyah Strauss, an Israeli peace activist and a founder of Women in Black, spoke to over 200 people here Oct. 6. Strauss gave the history of the peace movement in Israel and expressed her belief that the majority of Israelis and Palestinians want to live in peace.
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