Jun 1, 2002

Dr. Riad Abdelkarim, chairman of KinderUSA, an American Muslim charity, arrived home in Irvine, Calif., May 20, after being held for 15 days without charges in an Israeli prison. For the entire article, click on the headline. To visit the Muslim Public Affairs Council page on Dr. Riad Abdelkarim, click here.

Calling the crisis in the West Bank and Gaza “an enormous human tragedy that cannot be solved by war,” journalist and Communist Party Vice Chair Judith Le Blanc last week told northern California audiences that it is urgent for Americans to act now for peace and justice in the Middle East.

The U.S.-Russia nuclear weapons treaty, signed May 24 with much fanfare in the Kremlin, actually moves the world closer to nuclear weapons use, peace activists warn. Pentagon warhawks are the main beneficiaries of the agreement, Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, told the World. “We should not be fooled by this treaty,” he said. For the entire article, click on the headline. For more information, visit Peace Action or the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.

South Carolina crane operators won a whopping labor victory this week after their refusal to work nearly shut down all operations at the Port of Charleston, the nation’s fourth largest container port.

The prices of Broadway theatre tickets are well beyond working-class people’s financial capabilities. However, the Theatre Development Fund (TDF) makes it possible to see Broadway and off-Broadway shows for reduced ticket prices, usually ranging from $10 to $20.

Women are the target/Bush war erodes rights

En unas elecciones donde solo 45 por ciento del electorado salió a las urnas, el candidato derechista, Álvaro Uribe fue electo presidente de Colombia el domingo, 26 de mayo.

The Bush administration faces growing, angry questions from Capitol Hill on its close ties to Enron last year while the Houston energy trader was “gaming” the California electricity market fleecing ratepayers of as much as $30 billion in overcharges.

Many martyrs died in the cause of freedom during the civil rights revolution of the 1950s and 1960s. None touched the conscience of the nation and the world more deeply than the terrorist murder Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, of Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Denise McNair and Carole Robertson. For the entire article, click on the headline. To visit the homepage of 4LittleGirls.com, click here.

The fortunes of Sterling, Ill., a small town of 14,000-plus, due west of Chicago, have moved up and down with the fortunes of Northwestern Steel & Wire (NW Steel). Today the fortunes of both are scraping bottom.