Nov 23, 2002

BALTIMORE, Md.: Cuba aids Black farmers / LOS ANGELES: Workers freed from sweatshop get U.S. residency / ELK GROVE, Ill.: Long lines at the airport and unemployment office / DETROIT, Mich.: Corporate tax cuts = layoffs in juvenile court / WASHINGTON, D.C.: Judge William Webster forced to resign

DENTON, Tex. – The University of North Texas (UNT) Young Communist League club showed the only U.S. blacklisted film, Salt of the Earth, to an audience of over 80 people here, Nov. 13. The presentation was the first installment in the club’s new Communist Culture Series.

Opinion


The practice of prison labor is almost as old as the ages. In fact, many forms of ancient slavery lie in the use of conquered people for work. Currently, the idea and practice of prison labor is as diverse as it is controversial. Arguments for and against it are often based on broad assumptions about how and why prison labor is used.

A new report by the Future of Music Coalition tells us about the sad state of radio today after six years of deregulation.

En una rueda de prensa telefónica el 12 de noviembre, Leonard Weinglass, abogado defensor de Antonio Guerrero, uno de los Cinco Cubanos, declaró que ha pedido a la Corte Federal de Distrito para el Distrito Sur de Florida un nuevo juicio para su cliente. Weinglass se estaba optimista de que esta acción será el primer paso hacia la libertad incondicional de los Cinco Cubanos.

Rejecting appeals that they first read the 484-page Homeland Security bill, the Senate voted 90 to 9, Nov. 19, to approve the measure creating an enormous new cabinet-level department with a budget of $38 billion. The House approved the measure a few days earlier.

Around the country, districts are working hard to complete their goals in the 2002 People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo Fund Drive.

Progressive Cinema


When’s the last time you went to see a progressive film and the theater was packed, standing room only? And the audience thundered approval throughout the film, climaxing with a standing ovation and applause throughout the entire final credits? And the filmmaker came running down the aisle through the cheering crowd like a hero at the Olympics? And then he stayed around to answer questions from the audience?

Segunda de dos partes

Jay Bookman, asistente editor de la página editorial del diario The Atlanta Constitution, escribió recientemente, “En su esencia, [la política militar estratégica de Bush] se propone un plan para la dominación militar y económica norteamericana de cada región del mundo, sin ninguna traba por tratados ni preocupaciones internas. Y para realizar ese plan, se preve una extensión bruta de nuestra presencia militar global.”

Opinion


Twelve years ago a populist priest named Jean-Bertrand Aristide became President of Haiti, in that country’s first democratic elections. A businessman summed up the attitude of Haiti’s small but stubborn elite: “Everybody who is anybody is against Aristide – except for the people!”