Bush policies not making us safer
As George W. Bush and Dick Cheney claimed their policies were making Americans safer, the death toll of U.S. soldiers in Iraq topped 1,000.
Democratic candidate John Kerry called it a “tragic milestone.” Bush ignored the number, insisting, “Our strategy is succeeding.” click here for Spanish text 
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Sept 11, 2004
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PITTSBURGH — “In 2000, I voted my gun. In 2004, I’m voting my job!” read the banner draped across steel beams on one of several Ironworkers floats in this city’s Labor Day parade.
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PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) and the Philadelphia School District have agreed to extend their contract, which expired Aug. 31. Students returned to classes Sept. 7 as negotiations continue.
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News Analysis
The Republican convention was filled with gaps and lies and the anti-Bush coalition should take note of them and not be demoralized by corporate media spin.
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RACINE, W.Va. — It was a traffic jam the likes of which residents of rural southern West Virginia had never seen. Over 5,000 workers wound their way up a narrow road here to hear Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry slam George W. Bush’s record on jobs, health care and foreign policy at a Labor Day celebration hosted by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA).
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NEW YORK — This city’s labor movement flexed its muscle outside the Republican National Convention Sept. 1 as some 50,000 protesters came out to oppose the Bush agenda — including the war in Iraq and the “war on working families here at home” — in a rally that stretched from 23rd Street all the way to Madison Square Garden. click here for Spanish text
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The Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) passed resolutions in support of bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq just days before the death toll there rose above 1,000.
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PHILADELPHIA — Unionized city workers here who provide essential public services, excluding police and fire personnel, are now in their third month working without a contract.
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MIAMI — An angry backlash has erupted in Miami’s “Little Havana” against George W. Bush’s new regulations sharply limiting Cuban Americans’ contacts with their families in Cuba. click here for Spanish text
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On Aug. 26, Mireya Moscoso, not quite done with her term as president of Panama, pardoned four jailed terrorists. To the cheers and warm embraces of hundreds of like-minded Floridians, three well-known criminals returned home to U.S. soil, the very home, of course, of war against terrorism.
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