Oct 11, 2003

Stand up, keep fighting / White House crime

Opinion

Armed with solidarity, songs and the legacy of America’s civil rights movement, two busloads of immigrants and their African-American, white, Arab-, Asian-, and Latin-American supporters faced down dozens of Department of Homeland Security agents and their dogs in the heart of Texas last week.

Opinion

President Bush may soon sign legislation that bans abortions – with no exception for the mother’s health – and would jail doctors for providing what is in some cases life-and-death reproductive health care to women across America.

Opinion

Forget the spin you have been reading in the papers about the “failure” of the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun. It was one of the most successful international meetings in years because it redefined how trade can benefit the poor and how the developing world can be real players in these negotiations.

Opinion

Recently, news of a blackout hit the world press: the giant blackout that affected more than 50 million people in the northeastern USA and Canada.

Book Review

For the past three years, Paul Krugman, a liberal economics professor at Princeton, has written a twice-weekly op-ed column for The New York Times. With these articles, Krugman has emerged as one of the most prominent mainstream critics of radical right economics and politics in the U.S.

It’s another Monday night in Manhattan. Uptown shimmers with the glow of lights and the blur of street traffic. People rushing to points south and north may have a hard time noticing the proud structure that is the Advent Lutheran Church high up on 93rd Street and Broadway.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The ranks of Minnesota working-class activists suffered a loss recently, when the long life of Toinie Mackie ended.

CHICAGO – El Concejo Municipal de Chicago, por voto contundente, aprobó el 1 de agosto una resolución denunciando a la Ley Patriota USA, y haciendo un llamado para la derrogación de las secciones de la misma que violan a la Constitución del país.