Nov 16, 2002

On Nov. 21, working families in all 50 states will join with community, student, civil rights, environmental and consumer activists for a National Day of Action at Wal-Mart stores. Jill Cashen told the World The Day of Action is part of the ongoing People’s Campaign for Justice@Wal-Mart. “We will be demanding that Wal-Mart become a responsible corporate citizen that provides good jobs, equal opportunity, fair business and trade practices and respects the rights of workers.”

BUTLER, Pa. – In the shadow of the county’s civil war memorial, 2,000 steelworkers, their families and supporters, rallied Veterans Day demanding an end to AKSteel Corporation’s firing, harassment and unsafe working conditions.

We’ve all been busy – and rightly so – these last several months with the election. It’s been hard, time-consuming work that has left most of us with little time for anything else.

NEW YORK – If you happened to be in downtown Manhattan on Election Night, you might have seen a 20-by-50-foot demonic specter of John Ashcroft overtake the giant billboard at the corner of Houston and Lafayette, usually splashed with slinky models in tight jeans.

Movie review


Bloody Sunday


This British-Irish film is a gripping recreation of the January 30, 1972, massacre by the British Army of 13 unarmed civil rights marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland.

TWIN CITIES, Minn. – “If the election is lost today, we’ll still grieve for Paul and the movement. We’ll have to collect ourselves. Someone will rise up and we will rebuild. The energy today will help through the process, “St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly President Sharyle Knutsen told the World Nov. 5.

Worker’s Correspondence


This Election Day I worked as a judge in a small Chicago Southside precinct of less than 700 registered voters. Because of my age, this is my first Election Day horror story.

The following is based on a story from the Communist Party of Chile’s newspaper, El Siglo.

PUEBLO, Colo. – The locked-out steelworkers from United Steel Workers of America Locals 2102 and 3267 gathered here at the state fairgrounds in October to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the strike at the CF&I steel mill in Pueblo. Over 700 union members and supporters turned out to renew their pledge to last one day longer than Oregon Steel in its continuing war on its workers.

El pintor mexicano Diego Rivera no fue sólo uno de los genios del muralismo, autor de frescos monumentales en los que el indio figura como centro de un universo plástico profundamente americano.