BERKELEY, Calif. – In a spirited tribute, the Northern California People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo banquet Oct. 13 honored “the heroes and heroines of the struggle against corporate greed,” and called for a big turnout against Republican “Bush-clones” in the Nov. 5 election. The banquet raised $8,000 for the PWW fund drive.
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Oct. 26, 2002
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Working families tell candidates: No more business as usual / Texas’ fate is in Latino hands / PHOENIX: Farmworkers lead voter registration drive / PHILADELPHIA: Activist runs for state rep. / BALTIMORE: NAACP says no ‘first-strike’ on Iraq / BOSTON: Demands for peace continue / SANTA CRUZ, Calif.: Campus rallies against Iraq war / TUCSON: 1,500 rally against Bush’s war / WASHINGTON, D.C.: High Court supports juvenile death penalty / HOUSTON: Immigrant workers demand justice / ATLANTA: Delta announces more lay-offs
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Commentary
These are not ordinary times. And Nov. 5 – Election Day – is no ordinary day.
This election more than any in recent memory offers voters an unparalleled opportunity to strike a blow against the extreme right and for peace, progress and sanity.
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What am I missing here? The Oct. 7 New York Times ran a front-page article that said a majority of Americans believe President Bush and congressional leaders are spending too much time studying war while neglecting problems at home. A second front-page article in the same edition reported that Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, visiting an eight-person company in Duluth to help draw attention to the spiraling cost of health care for small companies, had to ask a local television reporter for the favor of mentioning in her news report why he was there. She was only interested in a sound bite about Wellstone’s opposition to unilateral action against Iraq.
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In a blatant attempt to highjack debate on domestic issues now that he has congressional approval for waging war against Iraq, President Bush has embarked on a desperate campaign to maintain control of the House of Representatives and capture control of the Senate in the Nov. 5 elections.
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When longshore workers go to work in the morning, they hope to come back to their family at the end of the day in one piece, and able to go to work the next day.
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The most myopic U.S. supporters of Ariel Sharon have launched a campaign to smear all who criticize Israeli and U.S. policy in the Middle East as anti-Semitic. They argue that Israel represents the crystallization of the aspirations of Jews as a people and that, therefore, questioning the idea of Israel as an exclusively Jewish state is intrinsically anti-Jewish.
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The following is excerpted from a recent e-mail sent to friends and family from PWW/Mundo reporter and Communist Party Vice Chairwoman Judith Le Blanc.
RAMALLAH – The meeting with President Arafat in the “compound” here, which had been under a 10-day seige by the Israeli army, dramatized what the Sharon regime’s goal was. They set out to ignite a conflict that would have caused an assassination of Arafat. The damage left the Palestinian National Authority headquarters destroyed.
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CHICAGO – En el estado de Illinois, la tentativa por Jim Ryan, el candidato republicano para gobernador y Joe Birkett, candidato republicano a la fiscalía general, de acusar falsamente en 1985 a dos hombres latinoamericanos ya es cuestión que se pone al rojo vivo en las elecciones estatales.
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Where do over two million union members go when they retire? The AFL-CIO has an answer: the Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA).
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