Nov 23, 2002

Over 10,000 people from far and wide gathered at the gates of Ft. Benning, Ga., Nov. 17 to demand closure of the School of the Americas (SOA), better known as the “School of Assassins,” where many death squad officers from Latin America have been trained.

COLUMBUS, Georgia – Más de 10.000 personas protestaron el domingo, 17 de noviembre, afuera de la entrada al Fuerte Benning, en Georgia para reclamar por el cierre de lo que ellos consideran un campo de entrenamiento terrorista en territorio estadounidense – la Escuela de las Américas, cuyo nombre fue cambiado al de Instituto del Hemisferio Occidental para la Cooperación y Seguridad (SOA/WHISC, por sus siglas en inglés), una escuela militar para soldados latinoamericanos.

I knew Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone for 20 years.

We met through our involvement with MPIRG, a Ralph Nader- organized and student-directed public interest group. When I started work at a rural legal aid office representing low-income farmers, Paul was working to organize farmers to push for a minimum price like the minimum wage.

While the majority of the U.S. public supports ending the embargo against Cuba and normalizing relations, the Bush administration took another step in the opposite direction.

Reprinted from The Black Commentator


The Bush administration is directly funding a media campaign by the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), the school vouchers propaganda outfit created by the far-right Bradley Foundation. The blatant political nature of the gift could not be plainer. “We want to change the conversation about parental choice by positively influencing individuals who are resisting parental choice options and get them to reconsider their outlook,” said Undersecretary of Education Gene Hickok, announcing a $600,000 grant to the BAEO.

The Communist Party of China (CPC) held their 16th Congress, Nov. 8-14, which inaugurated a blueprint for the first 20 years of this century, amended the CPC Constitution concerning the theory and nature of the party and inaugurated a succession between the third and fourth leadership generations. The 2,114 Congress delegates represented 66 million CPC members.

NEW YORK – “The dominant mood today is to continue to fight,” Sam Webb, Communist Party national chair, told National Committee (NC) members at its meeting here, Nov. 16-17.

NEW YORK – “El sentimiento dominante hoy es de continuar luchar,” dijo Sam Webb, presidente nacional del Partido Comunista ante la reunión de su Comité Nacional reunido los días 16 y 17 de noviembre.

Donald Niven Wheeler, a scholar, dairy farmer and longtime member of the Communist Party USA, died in Seattle, Nov. 8. He was 89.

During the election campaign, the Bush administration and its allies may have set a new record for lying about their economic agenda. Tax cuts for the rich are cited as “economic stimulus.” Privatizing social security (and cutting benefits) is called “individual choice.” A bill written by the drug industry is called “prescription drugs for seniors.”