Oct. 8, 2005

Black Caucus demands jobs, housing, health care for storm survivors

WASHINGTON — A month after hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast, anger is surging that President George W. Bush is doling out “no bid” contracts for crony corporations like Halliburton while those who lost everything are homeless and unemployed.

You need a scorecard to keep up with the growing number of Bush administration lies, sleazy cover-ups and criminal scandals. This is an administration infested with cronyism, corporate profiteering, corruption and racism, a group chock full of moral degenerates. It’s an ugly portrait of unbridled free-market capitalism, where corporate gangsters have their hands on all the main power switches of government.

OAKLAND, Calif. — A political, cultural and culinary feast is in store at the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo banquet here on Saturday evening, Nov. 5.

LAWRENCE, Mass. — Community and peace activist Martina M. Cruz came in first in a three-way race in the first round of voting for School Committee here Sept. 27. She garnered 440 votes out of 995 cast.

WASHINGTON — Buoyed by the huge antiwar march a day earlier, hundreds of progressive Democrats at a “grassroots strategy” session here Sept. 25 vowed all-out struggle to break the grip of the Republican ultra-right in upcoming elections.

HOUSTON — Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) could face life in prison if he is convicted of money laundering, one of two crimes he was charged with last week.
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DALLAS — In 1991, corporate lawyer Harriet Miers answered a questionnaire from The Dallas Morning News. In response to the cue “Behind my back, people say…,” she wrote, “They can’t figure me out.”

CHICAGO — More than eight years of lobbying and community protests, including a 19-day hunger strike in 2001, finally bore fruit Sept. 8 with the dedication of the new, state-of-the-art Little Village-Lawndale High School campus in the heart of the large, multiracial, working-class community on this city’s southwest side.

PITTSBURGH: Women’s rights fighter Molly Yard dies; RALEIGH, N.C.: Seeking in-state tuition for undocumented workers; WASHINGTON: Violence Against Women Act threatened by pork; CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Students protest military recruiters

LOS ANGELES — “If you don’t vote, people like Bush get elected,” proclaimed a protest sign at a recent antiwar rally here. With his poll numbers slipping, people not voting is what California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is banking on.