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United Labor Action Can Smash the Taylor Law! Victory to the Transit Workers Strike!...
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 2:04pm PST
Bush’s phone-spying has disturbing echoes of South Africa’s apartheid regime Former South African president P. W. Botha believed his country was under 'total onslaught' from its enemies....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 2:00pm PST
Stand with Congressman Conyers...Demand Censure for Bush-Cheney Misconduct 
Congressman John Conyers, Jr. is taking steps against the Bush Administration’s handling of the Iraq War and its collection of intelligence. He is going to need you to stand with him in fighting for accountability....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 12:17pm PST
First Step Towards Impeachment? Conyers Introduces Bills to Censure Bush and Cheney We speak with Congressman John Conyers (D - MI) introduced measures to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney for misleading lawmakers on the decision to go to war in Iraq. Conyers is also seeking the creation of a select committee to investigate the Administration's possible crimes and make recommendations regarding grounds for impeachment....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:36am PST
New Documents Show FBI Spying on Domestic Activist Groups Newly released documents show counterterrorism agents at the FBI have been monitoring domestic organizations active in causes as diverse as peace, the environment, animal cruelty and poverty relief. The documents came as part of a series of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. We are joined today by members of three groups under FBI surveillance: Greenpeace, PETA and the Catholic Worker....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:32am PST
THE STATE TURNS UP THE HEAT ON PRO-QUEER, PRO-CHOICE ACTIVISTS At a time when the police in Eastern Pennsylvania, along with law enforcement agencies all across the country are engaging in acts of political repression and harassment against anyone attempting to change the status quo in this country from anti-war and animal rights activists, to anti-fascists and environmentalists - we need your help more than ever....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:31am PST
Mayor Bloomberg Condemns New York City Transit Strike, MTA Workers Hold Firm New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg condemns a strike by 33,000 transit workers that has shut down the country's largest public transportation system for the first time in 25 years. We play an excerpt of Bloomberg's press conference, hear New York City commuters and transit workers explaining their reasons for the strike and we speak with Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez who has been closely covering the strike....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:30am PST
With the White House defiant on illegal spying: Why no outcry for Bush’s impeachment? Despite the brazen declaration by President Bush that he authorized illegal electronic eavesdropping on Americans and will continue to do so, in defiance of clear legislative prohibitions, the response in official Washington has been remarkably muted. There has been some verbal condemnation and calls for congressional hearings on the secret spying by the National Security Agency (NSA), but no serious consideration of the constitutional remedy for presidential lawbreaking: impeachment....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:26am PST
New York transit workers set up picket lines: “Today’s strike is for all working people” 
Tens of thousands of New York City transit workers walked off the job Tuesday morning and set up picket lines at bus barns and train yards scattered throughout the city, shutting down operations that move some seven million passengers daily, the largest mass transit system in the US....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:25am PST
The New York transit strike: A new stage in the class struggle The World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party salute the 34,000 transit workers of New York City, whose courage in the face of draconian threats has provided an inspiring example of determination and solidarity to the working class throughout the United States and, indeed, internationally. The strike by transit workers is an event of international significance. Defying massive fines and even the threat of jail, the strike represents a direct challenge to a super-rich Wall Street e...
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:24am PST
Global Poverty Grows Free traders praise thisglobalization as a panacea for spreading prosperity and combating poverty. However employees are not harvesting the fruits of this development.. Half of the workers of the world do not earn enough to free themselves and their families from poverty....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 6:26am PST
Big Brother Bush and the NSA Spying on Domestic Groups A short article about the Bush Adiministration, the NSA, and the FBI's illegal domestic spying....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 9:25pm PST
Another Opportunity To Halt The Employers’ Offensive Arises New York Transit workers take a step in the right direction but must broaden their demands and link with wider sections of the working class....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 7:07pm PST
FBI Spying on Greenpeace, PETA, Catholic Workers, and Other Activist Groups We learn that they are infiltrating peace and animal rights groups again, as if they are populated by Moslem terrorists. That shameful story is below. Thank Goodness our brave FBI agents are on the job, protecting us against the fearful power of a "Vegan Community Project", the Catholic Workers group (for their "semi-communistic ideology") and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. (The latter were planning a protest against the use of Llama fur… look out!)...
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 6:30pm PST
‘Workers’ rights are human rights’: Week of action spotlights labor’s right to organize CHICAGO — “Today I am proud to join workers, community and religious leaders in an urgent call for stronger U.S. and international laws that protect workers’ rights on the job,” Illinois AFL-CIO President Margaret Blackshere told a Dec. 8 rally at the city’s historic Haymarket Square. More than 175 union members, activists, religious leaders and community supporters braved a snowstorm to join the observance of International Human Rights Week, Dec. 3-10....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 6:23pm PST
Tampa jury rejects terror charges: Demand grows: ‘Free Al-Arian’ The refusal of a 12-member jury in Tampa, Fla., Dec. 6 to convict Dr. Sami Al-Arian of any of the 51 “terrorism” charges against him was another in a string of defeats for the Bush administration in its use of the Patriot Act in witch-hunt trials....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 6:22pm PST
Army resister Camilo Mejía speaks to high school students LAWRENCE, Mass. — Camilo Mejía, a former sergeant in the U.S. Army who served a year in jail for refusing to return to Iraq, urged young people here to learn the facts before deciding whether to enlist in the armed forces.
“Before you join the military, go to a military hospital” to see what war does to a person, Mejía told about 80 high school students who came to hear him speak Dec. 7 at Lawrence High School. Twenty others also attended the meeting....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 6:21pm PST
NY strike union fined $1m a day A judge has imposed a $1m (£570,000) per day fine on New York's main transport union for a strike that has brought city transport to a standstill....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 6:04pm PST
Hunger and homelessness up 12%: US Conference of Mayors CHICAGO, Dec. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Conference of Mayors/Sodexho USA annual hunger and homelessness survey released yesterday reports increased need for emergency food and shelter in 24 U.S. cities, especially among the nation's working poor families. Requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 12 percent in the past year with 76 percent of the cities surveyed reporting an increase in demands....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 3:32pm PST
'Intelligent design' KO'd in Pennsylvania "Intelligent design" is "a religious alternative masquerading as a scientific theory" and cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 11:07am PST
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