Jan 11, 2003

OAKLAND, California – En uno de sus últimas acciones del año el 17 de diciembre del 2002, el Concejo Municipal de Oakland se convirtió en la ciudad 19 y la más grande en repudiar el Acta Patriota.

The threat index for Medicare fraud shot up to “code red” when Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) took Trent Lott’s place as Senate Majority Leader. A darling of George W. Bush, Frist is now positioned to ramrod privatization of the nation’s most important health care system.

Jobless workers win a few weeks of relief / Bush’s dilemma

The New Year began with environmentalists pressing two separate lawsuits charging the Bush administration with gutting the Clean Air Act and pushing policies that have accelerated global warming that poses a long term threat to life on earth.

PHILADELPHIA – Friends and comrades from Southeastern Pennsylvania and Delaware gathered to celebrate Harriet Fahey’s 100th birthday, Dec. 29, at Fahey’s nursing home residence.

Brazil: Lula puts butter before guns / Lebanon: Unions will protest gov’t tax hikes / Britain: Protests good for health / China: CP head stresses re-employing laid-off workers / Germany: Public worker strike likely

TUCSON – Over 40 Arizona organizations have answered a call from the Tucson Peace Action Coalition to cosponsor a massive peace march and rally in Tucson on Jan. 18.

Opinion


Fortunately for me, my strength to survive is derived from my knowledge of dialectical materialism. Dialectical materialism has proven time and again that when the chips are down, historical events and movements make history turn things around.

“El pueblo de Puerto Rico repudia el reinicio de los ejercicios militares en la isla de Vieques porque estas prácticas no corresponden a la voluntad y al deseo de paz de todos los viequenses,” dice la carta escrita por la gobernadora de Puerto Rico, Sila María Calderón, al recivbir las noticias que la Marina de Guerra de Estados Unidos empezará prácticas bélicas el 13 de enero.