Jan 18, 2003

Exactly one year before his death, on April 4, 1967, Dr. King spoke out against the war in Vietnam at Riverside Church in New York City. Though this speech is not the first time his views against the war were expressed, King scholars indicate it is the first time he linked the struggle against war abroad with the struggle for equality at home.

Opinion


Last week, a friend who was recruited on his high school campus was sent off to the Persian Gulf region leaving behind his wife and newborn daughter. When he joined the army reserves he never figured he’d be going off to war and, with no other way to pay for college, signed up as a way to fund his education.

TEL AVIV – Remarkable developments abound as people prepare to go to the polls Jan. 28 to elect a new government and Prime Minister. Incumbent Prime Minister and warhawk Ariel Sharon continues to face major challenges from his and his families’ corruption activities.

According to the Labor Department the economy lost another 101,000 jobs in December, most of them in manufacturing industries and retail trade. Although the official year-end unemployment rate of 6 percent was unchanged from November, it tied an eight-year high. Given the pluses – 14,000 new jobs in government service – and minuses –101,000 thousand pink slips – 82,000 workers joined the ranks of the unemployed in December.

Opinion


As we celebrate the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King this week, tens of thousands of U.S. troops are being deployed to the Persian Gulf for war on Iraq and our country is rocked by an economic and civil liberties crisis.

From Hawaii to Maine, Michigan to Florida, contributions ranging from a few dollars to thousands of dollars came in from 43 states to make up the total $203, 573 raised for the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo 2002 Fund Drive surpassing the $200,000 goal!From Hawaii to Maine, Michigan to Florida, contributions ranging from a few dollars to thousands of dollars came in from 43 states to make up the total $203, 573 raised for the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo 2002 Fund Drive surpassing the $200,000 goal!

Opinion


Emile Schepers’ Nov. 16 column about the relationship of Zionism and anti-Semitism presented some useful history that stopped just before the founding of Israel under a UN resolution the Soviet Union sponsored in 1947.