National

How many elections can be hailed as “The Year of the Woman” before anything actually changes? Hint: no answer to this question exists yet.

Many autoworkers, back after their strike against GM, are worried or angry about concessions the company insisted on in the new contract.

Children marched to the White House Oct. 2 pulling red wagons filled with petitions demanding that President Bush drop his plan to veto legislation passed by the Senate and House that would extend the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and expand it to cover an additional 4 million children.

JENA, Luisiana — Hasta 50,000 de todo el país llegaron a este pueblito en la madrugada del 20 de septiembre para participar en una manifestación que duró todo el día, con la consigna de “Libertad para los 6 de Jena”.

WASHINGTON — Martín Andrade, un guardia de seguridad en Chicago, es oriundo de Michoacán, México. Él ha vivido en Estados Unidos legalmente por casi 30 años. Hace dos años que su esposa, madre de sus dos hijos fue arrestada y deportada a México.

This is the response I had when reading the first draft of the reauthorization proposals for No Child Left Behind put forth last week in the House: Nice try, you are beginning to figure out how deeply flawed the law is, but maybe you weren’t paying attention when educators told you what needed to be fixed. Go back to your notes, figure it out, and let us know when you do.

This week the nation observed the 50th anniversary of the struggle to integrate public schools in Little Rock, Ark. It came just one week after 50,000 protesters converged on Jena, La., to protest the criminalization of six African American youths for daring to stand up against lynch nooses hung on a tree at their high school. It is especially outrageous that one of the Jena Six, Mychal Bell, remains in jail even though an appeals court threw out his conviction.

YSCLOSKEY, La. — In a shower of sparks, Ricky Robin was repairing hurricane damage to “Lil’ Rick,” his 56-foot steel-hulled shrimp boat, when he spotted an out-of-town reporter snapping photos. “I built her with my own hands in 1974, 33 years ago,” he said proudly, setting aside his welding torch

President Bush’s threatened veto of legislation to renew and expand the popular State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) puts at risk medical insurance for 5 million or more poor children, according to fighters for children’s health care.

CHICAGO — Dozens of peace activists, covered in white sheets, some stained with fake blood, lay motionless on the concrete with red carnations atop their bodies in a “die-in” at Federal Plaza here Sept. 21, symbolizing the mounting death toll of the Iraq war.