Indian State of Kerala Joins Opposition to Coca-Cola
In another major defeat for the Coca-Cola company in India, the state government of Kerala has challenged the company's right to use groundwater in the Supreme Court of India, arguing that water is being taken from poor communities to produce drinking water for the rich.
Redeeming the Olympic Martyrs of 1968
1968. There was never a year when the worlds of sports and politics collided so breathlessly, without mercy or respite. It was the year Muhammad Ali, stripped of his heavyweight title for resisting the draft, spoke on 200 college campuses and asked the question, 'Can they take my title without me being whupped?'
End the War on Iraq! September 24-26 Washington, DC
Sat., 9/24 : Massive March & Rally,Peace and Justice Festival,
Operation Ceasefire Concert
Sun., 9/25: Interfaith Service,Training for Grassroots Lobby Day,Training for Nonviolent Civil Resistance, National Meeting for Counter Recruitment,Other Activities
Mon., 9/26: Grassroots Lobby Day, Mass Nonviolent Civil Resistance
News Roundup: Civil Rights and the Constitution on the Block
From 'faith-based' discrimination to arch-conservative Chief Justice nominee Roberts and a National ID card concept, Constitutional protections are being sacrificed to an ultra right agenda. Learn more and find ways to fight back.
'A New McCarthyism': The Ultra Right and American Youth - Young Communist League(Dynamic article)
A very good friend of mine voted for Bush last November. It shocked me then and it continues to bother me now. She was a student, just like me, working multiple jobs to cover the ever-rising costs of tuition, rent, and food. Couldn’t she see how the Bush Administration’s cuts to funding for higher education and the illegal Iraq war, diverting funds from books to bombs, have endangered the lives of young people everywhere?
SUDAN: President swears in new government of national unity
Of the 29 ministries, 16 remained in the hands of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP). Nine went to the SPLM/A, and the remaining four were divided among various other political parties in accordance with the wealth- and power-sharing quotas agreed to under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
LEBANON: Gov't urged to combat trafficking in human beings
'Lebanon’s victims of trafficking are often invisible because they suffer in places that remain hidden to the public eye such as private homes or hotel rooms,' Sigmu Huda, the UN Special Rapporteur on human trafficking told reporters following a fact-finding mission that lasted from 8-15 September.
Australia: Scott Parkin 'Removed'
Is peaceful protest a security threat? The Howard government seems to think so after it removed American teacher and peace activist, Scott Parkin, from Australia last week. His crime: advocating peace, which the government views as a threat to national security.
GOP’s Fiscal Policies Turned a Natural Disaster into a Man-Made Catastrophe
Republicans like to brag that, as a political party, they are more fiscally responsible than their Democratic counterparts. Well, thanks to President Bush’s four years in office that theory can now take up residence in the urban legend department.
Unions look for action to implement promises after UN Summit
ICFTU General Secretary Guy Ryder warned world leaders not to turn their backs on the world's poor following extremely mixed results at the UN Millennium + 5 Summit held in New York that finished today.''This summit did not deliver enough on poverty, security, United Nations reform, or the reaffirmation of the UN as the core of the multilateral system...'
