Mar 9, 2002

The U.S. military dropped two BLU-118b “experimental” bombs during its “Operation Anaconda” in eastern Afghanistan over the March 1 weekend.

NEW ORLEANS – As has been the case ever since a team led by John Sweeney, Richard Trumka and Linda Chavez-Thompson assumed the leadership of the AFL-CIO in October 1995, organizing the unorganized was high on the agenda at the recent meeting of the AFL-CIO Executive Council.

The second annual World Social Forum, held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the end of January, is now over, and the intention is to make it an annual event. Overwhelmingly, participants agree the forum was a success.

What do Bugsy Siegel and Al Capone have in common with Kenneth Lay and his Enron buddies Jeff Skilling and Andy Fastow, and why is it that the more I read about Lay & Co., the more Bugsy and Al keep coming to mind?

Jeffrey Reiman, in The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison points out that when coal companies intentionally design disasters, these intentional acts are called an “accident” or a “tragedy.” The label “mass murder” is never applied.

The Bush budget sends a loud, ugly message to workers throughout the United States: work hard earn some money suffer the hazards die or become disabled and, the increasing unemployed can easily replace you.

TEL AVIV – Recent days have seen the bloodiest fighting in the 17-month-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict against the Israeli occupation and the death toll continues to rise.

PANAMA – La ruptura de las negociaciones entre el gobierno colombiano y las FARC no fue una sorpresa. Hace unas semanas, dichas conversaciones estuvieron a punto de romperse y solo una gestión internacional de última hora logró prolongarlas.

EW YORK – On Friday, March 15th at 7:30 p.m., the YAI Players, a performance troupe consisting of people with disabilities, in collaboration with the Theater of Dreams and The Berkeley Carroll School will perform God Bless the Child at the Construction Company (10 E. 18th Street between 5th and Broadway).

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Dockworker Elijah Ford stood with his wife and children before his union brothers and sisters in the magnificent new International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union hall here March 2. He is a quiet, modest man and he seemed overcome by emotion at the vast meeting room packed with friends and allies from across the U.S. and around the world – more than 800-strong.