Mar 26, 2005

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Cindy Sheehan, a founding member of Gold Star Parents for Peace, moved many to tears as she told 4,800 antiwar protesters here March 19 about the death in Iraq of her son, Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, last April 4.

There was no evidence the Cuban Five posed a threat to the U.S., the lead FBI investigator in the case has admitted.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The 31st annual PWW African American History Month celebration here, on Feb. 27, was an electrifying event with Jarvis Tyner, executive vice chairman of the Communist Party, keynoting. Tyner, a founding member of the Black Radical Congress, addressed the theme of the event, “40th Anniversary Voting Rights Act — Dismantling the Roadblocks to Equality in 2005.”

CHICAGO — The People’s Weekly World editorial board announced this week that Martin Frazier has joined the staff as a writer and editor, with a particular focus on African American/Caribbean/African affairs, as well as culture and music. He brings to the paper a rich background in these areas, coupled with hands-on experience as a political and cultural activist.

Anel Belizaire, an ex-soldier in Haiti who recently escaped from the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince, says that someone from interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue’s office asked him last month to murder fellow inmate Yvon Neptune. Neptune is the deposed prime minister who served under exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He has been jailed for nearly a year without trial.

Bush got a rocky welcome to Denver, March 21, in the 17th stop on his 60-city, election-style campaign to sell the privatization of Social Security.

Dolores Huerta received the “Red Flame Award” for outstanding progressive leadership.

While environmental activists scored a victory March 9 with the apparent defeat of President Bush’s so-called “Clear Skies” initiative, they still have a fight on their hands over recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules.

On the weekend of March 18-20, almost 800 communities in all 50 states had some type of action to bring the troops home from Iraq and end the U.S. occupation there.

WASHINGTON — Georgetown University is the new battleground for social justice in our nation. Twenty-two student activists, members of the Living Wage Coalition, took the heroic step of declaring a hunger strike here March 15. They vowed to continue their protest until the university president, John DeGioia, agrees to a “living wage” for all workers on campus.