Jul 10, 2004

MASSILLON, Ohio – A standing-room-only crowd of 4,500 crammed into the Perry High School auditorium here June 25 to greet Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and to rally for jobs. Hundreds more waited outside, hoping for a glimpse of the candidate.

WASHINGTON – Reg Weaver, president of the 2.7-million-member National Education Association (NEA), touched off cheers from 11,000 NEA delegates and guests, July 4, when he accused the Bush administration of leaving millions of school children behind while squandering $160 billion on the war in Iraq. click here for Spanish text

ST. LOUIS – This Fourth of July, activists from across the country joined activists here, workers to defeat George W. Bush in this battleground state.

Nearly 900 U.S. troops killed, more than 16,000 ill and injured. Some 9,000-11,000 Iraqis killed and an estimated 40,000 injured. The bill to U.S. taxpayers: $151 billion and counting.

New regulations affecting Cuban Americans who go to Cuba to visit family there have backfired. The Bush administration is facing both divisions within the U.S. Cuban community and opposition in Congress.

HOUSTON – Protests continue here and around the country over the war profiteering of Halliburton Company and its crony capitalist practices.

LEXINGTON, Ky.: Miners march for health care, pensions / CHARLESTON, W.Va.: Bush, Cheney meet triple protest whammy / HOUSTON: Community leader jailed for helping police

VANCOUVER, British Co-lumbia – After 13 years of center-right rule, angry voters punished the incumbent Liberal Party on June 28 by giving them a minority government. Not only did the Liberal Party lose 37 seats in Parliament – dropping to 135 – but its popular vote shrank to 37 percent, three points less than four years ago.

Turkey: Mass protest greets NATO meet / Japan: ‘Save antiwar Article 9’ / Norway: Citizen inspectors visit secret U.S. base / Israel: IAEA says ‘end nuclear threat’ / Haiti: Protest former prime minister’s arrest

LIVERMORE, Calif. – On the 59th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there will be a peace march to the Livermore nuclear weapons lab.