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Each year is worse for Colombian workers
Being a trade unionist in Colombia has become a high-risk occupation and trade unionists frequently have to pay with their own lives. Figures from last year show how critical the situation has become....
Posted: Mon, Dec 2, 2002 1:47am PST
How the AFL-CIO helped to bring a victory to the bosses of the PMA
Straight from the horse's mouth: the Wall Street Journal heaps praise on the AFL-CIO for helping to sell out the ILWU rank and filer....
Posted: Sun, Dec 1, 2002 10:46pm PST
Wall Street Journal Loves New ILWU Contract!
Here is an article from the Wall Street Journal dated 11-26-02. It just goes on and on about how great the Taft Hartley Slave labor act worked with the ILWU....
Posted: Sun, Dec 1, 2002 10:42pm PST
A socialist view on the sellout ILWU contract
Report on the sweet contract by the World Socialist Web Site...
Posted: Sun, Dec 1, 2002 9:43pm PST
Palestinian Children in the Night
"A few of the Palestinians standing behind the UNDP representatives slowly walked up behind them and one pulled from a bag what looked like a one meter wooden bat .."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 1, 2002 9:03pm PST
Marze Por Gohar and the Quest for Human Rights in Iran
Marze Por Gohar (The Glorious Frontiers Party) envisions an Iran free of both the sins of Monarchy and the excesses of the theocratically oriented Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). Only time will tell in regard to the realization of its dreams....
Posted: Sun, Dec 1, 2002 7:41pm PST
Ecuador-Lucio Gutierrez opens a new revolutionary stage
Ecuador...
Posted: Sun, Dec 1, 2002 3:08pm PST
United States v. John M. Poindexter
, Poindexter was tried and convicted in April 1990 of five felonies, including: one count of conspiring to obstruct official inquiries and proceedings, two counts of obstructing Congress, and two counts of false statements to Congress...
Posted: Sat, Nov 30, 2002 11:32pm PST
Flashpoints Nov 29: an hour with Robert Fisk
-Host Dennis Bernstein: last Friday award winning British journalist Robert Fisk spoke at Berkeley's First Congregational Church in a benefit for the Middle East Childrens Alliance.. now an hour of the best of Robert Fisk...
Posted: Sat, Nov 30, 2002 11:03pm PST
Court Grievances Call For Statewide Grand Jury
The people must be the keepers of the government by "altering or reforming it" according to the California Constitution. In the case of the judiciary, the "Judicial Reform Act of 1966" was a groundbreaking initiative written to address violations of due process of law....
Posted: Sat, Nov 30, 2002 12:05pm PST
Spread Some Sanity!
Spread Some Sanity: Attack Global Warming Not Iraq!...
Posted: Fri, Nov 29, 2002 5:47pm PST
Whole Foods Union Organizers Fired (video/x-pn-realvideo 33.8MB)
Debbie Rasmussen and Julie Thayer, two members of the Madison, Wisconsin Whole Foods workers union organizing committee, were fired last week for giving away/drinking a spoiled drink....
Posted: Fri, Nov 29, 2002 12:20pm PST
Democracy Now!: Interview w/ a former Iraqi nuclear scientist
As UN weapons inspections begin, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist says Iraq's atomic program no longer exists. Imad Khadduri also explains how the Eisenhower administration helped start Iraq's atomic program....
Posted: Thu, Nov 28, 2002 9:52pm PST
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 11/29/02 ¡Listen Globally!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Germany, Spain, China, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Nov 28, 2002 7:54pm PST
Behind That Gate: David Rovics (video/x-pn-realvideo 1.7MB)
Rovics points out the grave irony at the gates of Ft. Benning: a Bush-appointee Federal Judge demands peace activist be searched for weapons -- outside the gates of the notorious school of assassins. 3.5 min....
Posted: Wed, Nov 27, 2002 11:50pm PST
Flashpoints Nov 27: Israeli forces invade Dheisheh; Allegra Pacheco; Kissinger
KPFA Flashpoints Radio, Wednesday November 27, 2002
-Israeli forces invade Dheisheh with tanks, attack dogs, report from ISM member trapped
-Allegra Pacheco on the arrest of her husband in Bethlehem Friday
-Peter Cornbluh about Henry Kissinger's appointment to head Bush's 9/11 inquiry
-Exclusive interview with Henry (or is it an imposter?) Kissinger, in his own words....
Posted: Wed, Nov 27, 2002 11:36pm PST