Change to Win Unions Plan to Spend $750 Million on Organizing
The unions in the new Change to Win federation plan to spend at least $750 million on organizing during the next 12 months, their leaders said during the group’s founding convention in St. Louis on Sept. 27...The Change to Win federation will also use its power to enforce its member unions to work together on joint efforts, through coordinating committees, with one committee for each of 17 industrial sectors it identified.
Free Occupation Refusers: Sign A Petition In Support of The Occupation Refusers and To Demand Their
Alex Cohn, Wissam Qablan, Orwa Zidan and Shaul Mograbi-Berger are currently in military prison for their refusal, on grounds of conscientious objection, to serve the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories...Their imprisonment is meant only to punish them and prevent them from obeying the dictate of their conscience.
Japanese Residents Say No to US Military Bases
The government plans to publish an interim report on the Japan-U.S. talks on U.S. military realignment in October after a long delay due to the general election...The need now is for the government to let the U.S. government know how strong local refusal to accept U.S. bases in their municipalities is and to call for the cancellation of the realignment of U.S. bases in Japan.
Economic Trends: Capitalizing on Tragedy- Disaster Capitalism
The rise of disaster capitalism is extremely disturbing for a simple reason: if a private company makes its income by selling services to the victims of tragedies, it will have an economic interest in the increase in frequency of tragic occurrences, and may use its exorbitant political and economic power to promote policies which will make disaster more likely.
ZIMBABWE: Queuing[standing in line] becomes an essential skill as shelves empty
Conversations inevitably revolved around the current hardships - water rationing in the city, the lack of basic items, the exorbitant prices when they did become available, and President Robert Mugabe's recent response to the crisis: that people had the option of eating potatoes...In the last few weeks maize-meal has shot from the equivalent of US 50 cents for 10 kg to US $2.5, and rice up from $3 for a 2 kg bag to $7 - in part as a result of the government's easing of price controls.
Social Justice and Peace: 'Viewing Terrorism through a Different Lens'
Why do the 'terrorists' and other people of the Middle East hate us? The truth is much more complicated than George Bush's disingenuous, propagandistic explanation to the American public...When [Bush] said, 'They hate what we see right here in this chamber,' he captured the true focus of the ire of the Arab world: the US government.
New Orleans exposes Bush’s war on the poor of the world: Interview with Remy Herrera
The New Orleans tragedy has demonstrated that the Bush administration is showing the same contempt for the poor in its own nation as for the peoples of the South, including Cuba, affirms Remy Herrera, a researcher with the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) of France, and a professor at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
IRAQ: Thousands of civilians flee military offensive near Syrian border
“We are really worried about how large this military operation will become because our hospital cannot cope with so many patients due to a lack of essential emergency materials,” [Dr. Rami] Massaibi said.He also noted that the hospital was still dealing with many children who had been suffering from malnutrition since the previous US-led offensive in the area five months ago.
Betrayal On Iran: Costs of India-US Partnership
INDIA voted with the US and the European sponsors of the resolution to arraign Iran in the Board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This paves the way for its nuclear issue being referred to the UN Security Council.
Iraq occupation forces must withdraw now
The Iraqi situation is further deteriorating as U.S. forces' attacks mainly in the North-west area intensify while endless terrorist attacks are killing citizens. About 300 Iraqis were killed in the week beginning September 14.
