CHICAGO — The Illinois Legislature wasted no time heeding the national voters’ mandate, overwhelmingly passing a bill to raise the state’s minimum wage from $6.50 an hour to $7.50 effective next July. The bill, which Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he looks forward to signing, will make the Illinois minimum wage one of the nation’s highest. 
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Dec. 16, 2006
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Veterans and military families are planning dramatic actions in the nation’s capital in late January to appeal to ordinary Americans to speak out for an end to the Iraq war.
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WASHINGTON — “Union power’s on the rise, now’s the time to organize!”
More than 1,000 union members took up that chant as they marched to Capitol Hill, Dec. 8, still riding high from labor’s huge victory in the Nov. 7 midterm elections.
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NUEVA YORK — “El control estrangulador de la derecha sobre el Congreso ha sido roto”, dijo Joelle Fishman, presidente del la Comisión de Acción Política del Partido Comunista de Estados Unidos (PC), en una reunión de su Comité Nacional aquí el 18-19 de noviembre.
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Q: Can the Communist Party have an influence in America?
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Just prior to the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration sent out the word, which was echoed by most of the media, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction: nuclear bombs, anthrax and poison gas. They ranted and raved that Iraq was a threat to the United States.
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Arizona made history Nov. 7 when its voters became the first in the nation to reject a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Why Arizona? How come voters in more liberal states have voted for similar hateful laws while conservative Arizona voted no?
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With a flourish, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services revealed its new test for naturalization last week. If it is implemented nationally in 2008 as planned, it will raise the bar a little higher for immigrants wishing to become U.S. citizens. And George W. Bush probably could not pass it.
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John Bolton delivered the Bush administration’s bellicose, arrogant war-first policy to the UN, and U.S. voters took him out.
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Bernie Hayes’ career as a radio disc jockey has spanned over 50 years. An African American radio pioneer, he has participated in historic civil rights and union battles to break down racism within the industry, and he is the author of “The Death of Black Radio.”
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