Nov 9, 2002

When George W. Bush started pushing his “faith-based” initiatives for the federal government during his election campaign, most folks assumed he meant allowing churches to join traditional charities in providing services to the poor. This made a lot of people in and out of churches nervous – would a down-and-outer have to listen to a government-sponsored sermon before he could get a nightly meal or a place to sleep?

PHOENIX – Clergy, community leaders and legislators from across Arizona converged on America West Airlines’ offices here, Oct. 10, to express their support for AWA workers’ right to organize with an election free of interference by the bosses.

Commentary


A Pew Research Center poll released Oct. 31 found support for George W. Bush’s plan for preemptive war against Iraq has dropped from 64 percent in mid-September to 55 percent. Support for war plummets to only 27 percent if the U.S. acts unilaterally, down from 34 percent in September.

Folks in rural America have been hit hard by two very different kinds of slow-moving disasters over the last two years.

Worker’s Correspondence



It is less than a week until the Special Election for the Boston City Council seat for Allston/Brighton is held.

The novels of Charles Dickens portray life during the development of modern capitalism in England. In Nicholas Nickleby (1838), one of the characters describes a venture in which members of parliament join with capitalists to launch a new company:

WASHINGTON – A pesar de los atraso en la elecciones del 5 de noviembre, la AFL-CIO, la Organización Nacional para la Mujer (NOW por sus siglas en inglés), y otras organizaciones de base juraron luchar con determinación para bloquear los intentos de la administración Bush de empujar su agenda derechista en el Congreso.

Drought and high temperatures don’t just threaten our water supplies and crops. They may help to spread disease. The recent outbreaks of West Nile virus across the United States in the midst of the past summer’s drought are a preview of how a changing climate could threaten our health.

Harvey Pitt, the Wall Street yes man whom President Bush had appointed to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), was forced to resign on Nov. 5.