Letters

Like it is

After reading the article by the Nebraska Farmers Union (9/29), it makes me want to belong, even though I am not a farmer or living in Nebraska. People who tell it like it is are my kind of people, especially after all the hogwash going on in the mainstream media.


Sam Yates

Minneapolis MN



Remember

My most sincere condolences on the occasion of the World Trade Center disaster that has taken the lives of so many good workers, with terrible effect on the rest of us who have survived. Please accept the enclosed contribution to support your continuing activity on behalf of the working class.

The good workers I refer to are of course the emergency workers - firemen, police and volunteers - who sacrificed their lives to save other lives, a tragic and unaccountable loss. Doubtless we all admire the courage and selflessness of those who are willing to risk their lives for others. The City of New York can never do enough to repay the families of the brave men who were lost. The rest of us will mourn them for a long time to come.


Matthew Buchwald

Woodside NY



Reader's praise - we think

Congratulations and heart-felt thanks. You are the most courageous, hard-working and underpaid journalists in the USA who truly uphold the "freedom of the press," which is today with almost complete corporate control of all communication media more "honored in the breech than in the performance."

Working families rely on you to give them the information that helps them survive and protect themselves in our culture of capitalist greed and imperialist arrogance.

At the moment, you may be the smallest newspaper in America but history will show that you are the most important.


Manuel Pousada

New York NY



Lean times

Going to be a lean year ahead ... only can afford to give $10 this year. I have not worked full-time all year and unemployment benefits are fast running out. We are really taking a hit in Washington State as far as layoffs go. I guess that's small compared to what happened in your city 9/11/01. Keep up the good work at the People's Weekly World.


Peter J. Grenier

Federal Way WA



Texans march for peace

Houston sent a bus and Dallas sent six carloads Oct. 28 when peace activists from all over Texas converged on the capital to protest the bombing of Afghanistan. The event was sponsored by Austin Against War.

An article in the Austin American Statesman said, "Hundreds of Texans demonstrating for peace demanded that the U.S. government abandon what they called an unjust crusade against Muslims and Arabs that is punishing innocent civilians in Afghanistan."

Public statements from the marchers blasted the Bush bombing scenario, but also emphasized alternative ways to end terrorism in the world. Most speakers recommended an orderly pursuit of justice through the United Nations. Peace coalitions are forming in every city, and a statewide coalition is nearly completed.

The Dallas Coalition for a Just Peace was begun on the initiative of the long-standing Dallas Peace Center, but its call for justice drew a quick response from many Dallasites who had not been active in progressive politics for many years, as well as from those who had never picked up a sign in public to demand fairness. The coalition meets at 7 p.m. every Monday night at Grace United Methodist Church at the intersection of Junius and Haskell in old East Dallas.


Jim Lane

Dallas TX



A memorial

I feel Americans need to honor and show respect to the people who died in the World Trade Center disaster. We need to build a park and a memorial to honor the people who lost their lives there as we did when we honored the victims of the Murragh building disaster.

Some people are advocating building the WTC complex in the same place as it was. To suggest reconstructing it in this way would be an insult to those who died.


Gilbert Herald

Hazard KY



Working class truth

I was delighted to subscribe for another year of "working class truth." Our media is inundated with corporate greed, political indifference and judicial arrogance that has polluted the landscape of the print medium. The World is a breath of truth that I look forward to each week.


Rena Benjamin

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