Mar 9, 2002

Last week’s federal appeals court decisions undoing three police officers’ convictions in connection with the 1997 attack on Abner Louima in Brooklyn’s 70th Precinct raised many questions and answered none.

Ratepayers of Portland General Electric (PGE) are so fed up with the thievery by the utility’s parent company, Enron, they are demanding that the State of Oregon take over PGE and run it in the public interest. For the entire article, click on the headline. More information to be found at Citizen's For Tax Justice and Sen. Barbara Boxer's pages.

PITTSBURGH – The ink was hardly dry on President Bush’s executive order imposing a 30 percent tariff on imported steel for three years, when the United Steel Workers of America (USWA) announce dit was launching a campaign to restore and protect health care for 600,000 USWA retirees.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The Webster Community for Non-violent Social Action celebrated Black History Month with a forum titled, “Justice: Not Just in February.”

Always one to follow Daddy’s example, George Bush the Appointed has given a host of Bush Sr. retreads a number of prominent posts in his administration.

The Communist Party USA has sent a four-person delegation to visit the People’s Republic of China. On invitation from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, CPUSA National Chairman Sam Webb, International Secretary Marilyn Bechtel, Labor Commission Chairman Scott Marshall and African American Equality Commission Chairwoman Debbie Bell are touring four cities, including Beijing and Shanghai.

CHICAGO – The Chicago Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) held its 23rd annual Florence Criley Awards Dinner here March 3 in celebration of International Women’s Day.

The injection of U.S. combat troops into the Philippines, ostensibly to train the Philippine army in a minor conflict with a small rebel Muslim group, is meeting with broad opposition from Filipino people.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The conference, “Welfare Reform: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going?” brought 500 participants to Bryn Mawr College Feb. 28-March 1 to hear speakers form academia, advocacy groups and government and then to discuss plans for fighting back as the struggle over welfare reauthorization unfolds in coming months. For the entire article, click on the headline. To visit the website of the Bryn Mawr welfare reform conference, click here.