For the OAS, Fort Lauderdale was No Great Success
The problem facing hemispheric leaders that became fully apparent in Florida is frightening in its simplicity: how are regional governments to preserve democracy when democracy is patently not delivering the promised socio-economic benefits that have been repeatedly promised since the early 1990s?
Cintas Retaliates Against Union with Lawsuit
Despite a lawsuit that challenges a labor union’s method of organizing workers at Cintas, a national uniform manufacturer and laundry company, UNITE HERE, the union involved, says it will continue to help workers fight a laundry list of labor violations and excessive exploitation by the company.
The New Blacklist: Corporate America Caves In to the Christian Right
'All across the country, the Christian right and its allies in the culture wars are mobilizing — sometimes spurred on from the top by the AFA, Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council and similar national groups, but with increasing frequency local pressure campaigns and boycott threats...'
William Pryor: 'A threat to the rights of all Americans'
In a mostly party line vote last night, William Pryor became the third Bush judicial appointee to be confirmed by the Senate in the last week. Pryor’s confirmation was met by sharp criticism...In his activist and ideologically motivated quest to advance a far-right agenda, Pryor has used his various positions to attempt to strip and chip away at a whole range of civil rights protections.
SOUTH AFRICA: Rising pressure on govt to deliver quicker
Minister for Public Service and Administration, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, said in her budget vote speech that 'we are still faced with strong divides between urban and rural, male and female, rich and poor, white and black, literate and illiterate'...Poverty also remains inextricably linked to race in South Africa. The highest incidence of joblessness is found among rural black women, with more than 47 percent out of work...
Campaign to Defend Venezuelan Labor Movement
...The U.S. government wants to set the stage for a direct military intervention in Venezuela -- and that one key piece for this is to secure a condemnation of the Venezuelan government for alleged “violations of labor rights.” This would permit Bush, the No. 1 warmaker and unionbuster in the world, to claim that Venezuela is a “rogue state” that must be removed by force.
Panel Discussion: 'Terrorism:The Miami Connection' - Anti-Cuba terrorism has also touched the US
During his talk, Dr. Hevia summarized the main aggressions carried out by the United States over more than 45 years, including hundreds of acts of sabotage against industrial facilities and shopping centers; the burning of sugar cane fields; aggressions against Cuban fishing vessels, and the hijacking of Cuban sea craft.
Governments Urged To Join World ‘Asbestos Ban’ - Trade Unions Call For Stop To Century-Long Carnage
“Asbestos is a threat to everyone, not just workers”, Ryder [General Secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)] said, “from children in schools, to young and old in private and public buildings where asbestos is present and to whole communities where it exists as a pollutant'.
Latin America Rejects US Tool for Intervention
Bolivia's example is a lesson for countries in the region, because leaders and politicians are being made aware that they must respond to their people and NOT the Empire. All presidents whose primary loyalty is to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund will end up resigning, said Evo Morales [ leader of Bolivia's Movement to Socialism (MAS) ]
Iraq: Bush’s Land of Make-Believe
'Why do Bush & Co. so adamantly believe that things are improving in Iraq even as the insurgency’s “lethality” improves and casualties continue to mount? ...Maybe they think that if they keep saying, “We’re winning in Iraq,” it will come true. Well, Bush & Co. have been advertising victory in Iraq since before we invaded and yet here we are, over two years later.'
