Feb 16, 2002

NUEVA YORK – Más de 20 mil manifestantes se unieron cerca del hotel Waldorf-Astoria aquí el fin de semana del 2 y 3 de febrero para protestar el Foro Mundial Económico (FME) que estaba tomando lugar aquí.

There is nothing patriotic about handing over our natural heritage to the oil industry. But that’s exactly what the White House wants to do in the name of national security.

LA HABANA (Prensa Latina) – Frente al criterio de que el Acuerdo de Libre Comercio para las Américas (ALCA) liberalizará el comercio, se alzan voces que consideran el proyecto un arreglo para regularizar el intercambio, pero con bases que no serán ni justas ni equitativas.

WASHINGTON – Backed up by Native American leaders from across the country, Alaska’s Gwich’in people assailed the Bush administration Feb. 11 for scheming to turn over to greedy oil companies their ancestral lands in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

Recent articles in the American Journal of Public Health highlight the crisis in two key health-care areas: asthma and oral health.

WASHINGTON – A committee of the California State Senate has demanded that Kenneth Lay and other Enron officials be brought to California to stand trial for contempt for refusing to testify before a California Senate Committee investigating “manipulation of the energy market.” For the entire article, click on the headline. To read a press release by Representative John Conyers on Enron, click here. More information is also available at Texans for Public Justice.

NEW YORK – Communist Party leaders from around the nation met here Feb. 9-10 to assess Bush’s “never-ending” war on terrorism and its dangers to life on the planet.

Budgets and elections/The Enron-omy, stupid!

As renewed peace talks in Colombia continue, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) has submitted its proposals for reducing the intensity of the conflict.

Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farmworkers of America (UFW) was one of the heroic figures of the 20th century.