MT. PLEASANT, Mich. — After watching weeks of political polls in the corporate media that extolled the strength of the Bush campaign and the weakness of his Democratic opposition, an event occurred at my university that gave me faith once again in the strength of our grassroots movement against the ultra-right. 
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Oct 9, 2004
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — According to an American filmmaker and journalist living in Haiti, the country’s U.S.-installed government is intensifying its repression of supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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At a public meeting in Havana on Sept. 18, the book “El Dulce Abismo” (The Sweet Abyss) was introduced to the world. As an index of the book’s significance, Ricardo Alarcon, president of the Cuban National Assembly, and Abel Prieto, minister of culture, attended the ceremony.
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UNITED NATIONS — The United States vetoed a draft UN resolution Oct. 5 demanding an immediate end to the massive Israeli military thrust into the Gaza Strip that has claimed at least 83 lives.
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China: Gov’t issues new anti-poverty measures / Mexico: Victims’ families compensated / The Netherlands: Huge demonstrations oppose ‘austerity’ / United Arab Emirates: Strike protests disaster / Equatorial Guinea: U.S. official linked to plotters
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Workers’ Correspondence
NEW YORK — Citizen Action is a grassroots organization dedicated to defeating the right-wing administration in the White House.
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HOUSTON — The Lone Star Iconoclast, a weekly newspaper in Crawford, Texas (declared hometown of George W. Bush), has endorsed Democrat John Kerry for president. The newspaper’s editors endorsed Bush in 2000.
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Three weeks ago, this column identified George W. Bush’s “ownership society” as “actually a Wall Street expropriation, foreclosure-and-indenture scheme.” The column warned that Bush’s Wall Street masters, impelled by a crisis of their system, were using individual “ownership” promises as a cover to plunder savings, homes, pensions and Social Security.
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TUCSON, Ariz. — Deaths of Mexican and other Latin American immigrants trying to cross Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, one of the deadliest deserts in the world, have soared. Since 1999, more than 3,000 people have died trying to make the journey from the Mexican side of the border.
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News Analysis
The Bush administration and the Republican leadership in Congress are stoking the fires of anti-immigrant agitation in the weeks before the election.
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