Feb 23, 2002

The case of Enron is one of the clearest examples of corporate abuse of power that has been dragged out into the daylight in recent memory. The unfolding scandal is creating a public outcry for checks and balances over corporate behavior. The fight to reform the campaign finance system has been given a new breath of life.

LA HABANA – Las nuevas tecnologías, lejos de ser un instrumento para un mundo más justo un desarrollo armónico y global, han creado una nueva brecha, que multiplica las desigualdades entre países ricos y pobres.

CHICAGO – United Airlines (UAL) mechanics and maintenance workers around the country were poised to walk off the job Feb. 12. Here in Chicago many had already cleaned out their lockers.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) trial of Slobodan Milosevic, former president of Yugoslavia opened Feb. 12 in The Hague, Netherlands.

JEFFERSON, Ohio – The schoolworkers in Jefferson Village in Ashtabula County, Ohio, have won their battle to save their union contract, wages and benefits. The 92 members of the Ohio Association of Public School Employees (OAPSE) Local 419 had been on strike for three months.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio ruled that the Cleveland voucher plan violates the First Amendment. But supporters of the voucher scheme filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn that ruling. For the entire article, click on the headline. To view the complete ruling (as a Word document), click here, or visit the American Federation of Teachers site for their news article.

NEW YORK – The Latino Voting Rights Committee of Metro New York released its Latino Legislative Redistricting Plan for the Assembly and State Senate for the City of New York Feb. 12.

NEW YORK – “We do not want the war in Afghanistan or other parts of the world, wherever it might spread, to be conducted in our names or in the names of our lost loved ones,” David Potorti told the press. For the entire article, click on the headline. Click on the following for Peaceful Tomorrows, the organization of families of 9/11 victims for peace, and A20 Stop the War, the coalition sponsoring the April 20 anti-war protests in the US.

TEL AVIV – Over 15,000 Israelis marched here Feb. 16, from Rabin Square through the main streets to a rally in Museum Plaza, across the street from Israel’s Defense Ministry. The theme of the demonstration was “Get out of the Occupied Territories – Get back to ourselves!”