Dec 14, 2002

NEW YORK – “War against Iraq is unjustifiable and immoral. It will cost thousands of innocent lives, Iraqi and American. And I will do everything I can to stop it.” So said Rabbi Michael Fineberg before his arrest on the steps of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Dec. 10.

Dos millones de venezolanos marcharon a través de Caracas el domingo, 8 de diciembre para defender la Constitución Bolivariana de su país e impedir un segundo golpe de estado contra el presidente Hugo Chávez.

PITTSBURGH – Armco/Kawasaki (AK) Steel ended its three-year lockout of over 600 members of the USWA at its Mansfield, Ohio, plant Dec. 10.

You know, Resident Bush is absolutely right when he says that weapons of mass destruction threaten the world.

BALTIMORE – A bagpiper played “Amazing Grace” as 800 mourners marched through snowy west Baltimore Dec. 9, following a pick-up truck carrying a pine coffin with the remains of Phil Berrigan, a “warrior for peace.” He died at his home, Dec. 6, at age 79.

Commentary



The McCain-Feingold Election Finance Reform bill that underwent so much debate in Congress has continued its controversial status since becoming law, Nov. 6, the day after the elections. The law, although taking steps towards substantial reform, fails to fulfill its mandate, according to reformers.

Caribbean heads of state called for the “immediate lifting” of U.S. economic sanctions imposed four decades ago on socialist Cuba, at a 15-nation Caribbean Community summit hosted for the first time in Havana. The U.S.-imposed sanctions are designed to promote “regime change” in an attempt to oust President Fidel Castro after he led the 1959 revolution.

Mientras que las tácticas fuertes de la administración Bush causa indignación entre los países miembros de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas, el ex presidente Jimmy Cárter desafió a los deseos bélicos de la administración y exhortó que se apoye a la cooperación internacional.

As the Bush administration outraged United Nations members with its latest strong-arm tactics, former president Jimmy Carter challenged the Bush administration’s war drive and urged support for international cooperation.

CHICAGO – As the “hawk” whipped around the corners of the Federal Plaza here in the Windy City, nipping at toes and noses alike, Dorothy Friezen held an anti-war sign at the building’s entrance as workers and demonstrators went inside. “I value life, everyone’s life, on this planet,” she said. She and hundreds of others were moved to take a stand against war with Iraq.