Dec 1, 2001

COLUMBUS, Ga. – Despite apprehensions that they would be labeled “terrorists,” at least 10,000 people from across the country gathered at Ft. Benning to protest the School of the Americas (SOA).

“America’s Fund for Afghan Children” – this is the name George W. Bush has given his “dollar for Afghan kids” drive. My daughter received a letter from her school requesting that she bring a dollar in for this drive.

The United Nations convened its first formal talks on a post-Taliban transitional government in Afghanistan Nov. 27.

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – Amnesty for anybody in this country, for every worker “no matter how you got here” is the policy of the AFL-CIO, Don Slaiman, organizer for the national labor federation, told a group of students at Bowling Green State University Nov. 14.

Maine has been leading the country in driving down the cost of prescription drugs and in the last two months has moved to do the same for health insurance. In September, the Maine legislature enacted a bill to set the wheels in motion for establishing a universal health-care system for all Maine residents.

I will not join in unity, national or otherwise, with those who are waging this war and the financial elite who stand behind them.

The bombing campaign against the people of Afghanistan will be described in history as the “U.S. Against the Third World.” The launching of military strikes against peasants does nothing to suppress terrorism, and only erodes American credibility in Muslim nations around the world.

CHICAGO – Excitement filled the House of Fortune restaurant in Chinatown here as Donna DeWitt, president of the South Carolina AFL-CIO, addressed the annual People’s Weekly World banquet Nov. 18. The banquet raised $8,000 for the People’s Weekly World fund drive.

BOGOTA, Columbia – Under the banner “Por Una Patria Nueva” – For a New Country – over 1,500 people gathered at the Gonzalo Jimenez De Quesada Convention Center here Nov. 8 for the opening session of the 18th Congress of the Colombian Communist Party.

BOGOTA – Los amplios salones del Centro de Convenciones fueron pequeños para las más de mil quinientas personas que plenas de entusiasmoparticiparon del Acto de Instalación del 18 Congreso del Partido Comunista Colombiano (PCC).