Feb 2, 2002

JEFFERSON, Ohio – Over 1,000 strong, organized labor took to the streets here Jan. 26 in support of their striking brothers and sisters in the Ohio Association of Public School Employees (OAPSE)/American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 419.

MIAMI – La reforma electoral, derechos del votante, educación para el electorado junto con inscribir votantes y mobilizarlos fueron los temas de prioridad para los casi 400 participantes en la celebración del natalicio de Martin Luther King celebrada aquí el 18 hasta el 21 de enero.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Coming together in common grief, a group of Americans who lost relatives in the Sept. 11 terror attacks on Jan. 16 visited three Afghan children whose mother was killed in an errant U.S. airstrike.

The capitalist press has been shy about revealing the toll the “War on Terrorism” has exacted on the innocent in Afghanistan. Those residing in the U.S. are not being told about the devastation that U.S. bombs are raining down upon innocent civilians.

With unprecedented aggressiveness and arrogance George W. Bush warned in his first State of the Union message, Jan. 29, that his “war against terrorism is only beginning” and other nations including North Korea, Iran and Iraq are on his target list.

ST. LOUIS – The Community Arts and Media Project (CAMP) held a “Soup-Er Bowl Party” Jan. 27 to raise funds for a building it hopes to purchase here.

ATHENS – Meeting here last weekend, representatives of Communist and workers parties of the southern and eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf and Red Sea regions reiterated their solidarity with the Palestinian people.

The offensive of the Bush administration has a broad sweep to it. Tens of millions – nearly every section of the people – are negatively affected in one way or another.

LOS ANGELES – During the holiday season parents searched for movies appropriate for their children, and Hollywood studios spent millions of dollars to capture that young audience.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A statewide campaign for passage of the Prescription Drug Fair Pricing Act (HB-290) was announced here Jan. 22. The legislation, the state senate draft of which is SB-127, is similar to that passed in Maine earlier this year. For the entire article, click on the headline. To read an update from the Ohio AFL-CIO, click here.