Jul 3, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO – Delegates to conventions of two of the nation’s largest unions last week cheered as their leaders blasted George W. Bush for lying to justify war on Iraq and for torture of Iraqi detainees. Both unions called for Bush’s ouster in the Nov. 2 election and urged a fight to end the Republican majority grip on the House and Senate. click here for Spanish text

Defenders of the Bill of Rights greeted two decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court June 28 sharply rebuffing George W. Bush’s claim of sweeping powers to detain U.S. citizens and foreigners indefinitely, without criminal charges, in his so-called “war on terror.”

NEW YORK – The estimated 1.5 million participants in the June 27 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride March here celebrated the past but kept an eye on the future.

For the first time the Communist Party USA and the Young Communist League had an official contingent in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trangender Pride March.

The U.S. occupation and its corporate cronies have ripped off Iraq’s oil wealth and ravaged the country’s infrastructure, several new reports show. Coalition Provisional Authority boss L. Paul Bremer slinked out of Iraq June 28 after turning nominal power over to an Iraqi interim government.

“Fahrenheit 9/11” turned up the heat on the Bush administration this week as Americans packed movie houses, hungry for information to help them understand the terrible path down which this president has led our country.

Over 100 students, civil rights and labor activists will work this summer to systematically increase the immigrant voting constituency in the electoral “battleground” states of Arizona and Florida, in the New American Freedom Summer 2004.

MILWAUKEE – Activists held a day-long series of events here for the 15th Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba. Since 1992, the caravan has challenged the U.S. embargo by sending busloads of aid to the Cuban people (80 tons last year).

CHARLESTON, S.C.: Independent truckers strike ports / SAVANNAH, Ga.: City Council condemns Patriot Act / WASHINGTON, D.C.: Protests over juvenile death penalty

HAVANA – At the Dora Alonso school for autistic children there are 58 students and 57 teachers. The school is bright, colorful and clean. It is in the middle of a campus full of schools.