Mar 8, 2003

Opinion


When people think about bombing Iraq, they see a picture in their heads of Saddam Hussein in a military uniform, or maybe soldiers with big black mustaches carrying guns, or the mosaic of George Bush Sr. on the lobby floor of the Al-Rashid Hotel with the word “criminal.” But guess what? More than half of Iraq’s 24 million people are children under the age of 15.

Opinion


It is one thing to protest the Bush war stampede in Washington D.C., San Francisco or at a city – or county-wide march; it is quite another to demonstrate on a street corner on your home turf – before family, friends, neighbors and local businesses. Street corner peace vigils are popping like microwave popcorn.

Opinion


I live less than 100 miles north of the border with Mexico. All my life I’ve experienced U.S. Immigration efforts to control the migrant stream of Mexican workers traveling north across the border looking for jobs and the benefits those jobs are able to provide – things like better working conditions, better education for their children, better health care and housing. These are the things our America is about.

To: Dick, Don and Paul

From: W.

Re: Ruling the world

One hundred twenty-eight years after the first protest of New York city’s women garment workers, against sweatshop work, the life and working conditions of women in most parts of the world are still the same and thanks to capitalism have worsened in some ways.

“I wish I would have been more active in the movement,” Alvena Seckar said earnestly. My jaw dropped – collectively or, in part, her body of work epitomizes the very meaning of political activism.

ROSLYN, Wash. – Russell Victor Brodine a musician, union organizer, and longtime member of the Communist Party USA died here Feb. 12. He was 90.

BALTIMORE – La doctora Evelyn Martínez de Calderón le dijo a un grupo aquí el 28 de febrero que 5.500 médicos en huelga en El Salvador todavía están fuerte a pesar de las amenazas de muerte que buscan romper su paro de cinco meses contra la privatización del sistema de salud de la nación.

LOS ANGELES – Antonio Villaraigosa, ex candidato para alcalde, hizo historia el martes, 4 de marzo, al ganar un escaño para el Consejo Municipal de la segunda ciudad más grande del país.

Yo vivo a menos de cien millas al norte de la frontera con Méjico. Toda mi vida he experimentado los esfuerzos de la Inmigración estadounidense en pos de controlar la oleada migratoria de trabajadores mejicanos que viajan al norte para cruzar la frontera en busca de un trabajo y los beneficios que ese trabajo pueda proveer – cosas como mejores condiciones de trabajo, mejor educación para sus hijos, mejores servicios médicos y vivienda.