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November 10, 2001Fight for civil liberties As of November 1, over 1,100 people have been detained by the U.S. Justice Department without due process. Why they are being held? Where they are being held? Who they are? Only three of the over one thousand people detained have been linked to the Sept. 11 attacks or other terrorists organizations. Attorney General Ashcroft has justified these actions by saying, “If suspects are found to...
Read moreUnemployment jumps
November 10, 2001Although the Labor Department’s latest employment report, released Nov. 2, didn’t rattle the stock market, it did show that another 415,000 men and women lost their jobs in October, bringing the official count of the unemployed to 7.7 million.
Read moreRep. Lee urges $ 1 billion to fight global AIDS
November 10, 2001More than 70 lawmakers have signed a letter to George W. Bush drafted by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) urging him to submit a request to Congress that an additional $1 billion to be contributed to the Global AIDS Fund. The letter was sent to the White House this week on the eve of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial conference in Qatar Nov. 9-13, at which the struggle against the...
Read moreWorld Editorial Board member wins election
November 10, 2001Denise Winebrenner-Edwards, People’s Weekly World editorial board member, won re-election to the City Council in the borough of Wilkensburg, Penn., right outside of Pittsburgh. Winebrenner-Edwards was first elected in 1997 with a slate opposed to the privatization of the Wilkensburg schools. Wilkensburg Residents against Profiteering (WRAP) ran a multi-racial slate for mayor, city council and school board at a time when the incumbents gave away public schools to private interest...
Read moreAmerica's disappeared
November 10, 2001She did not attend the Oct. 28 memorial service at the World Trade Center in New York for those who died there Sept. 11. Instead she wrote to President Bush asking his help to find her son, who had left the house for work shortly before the first plane barreled into one of the towers and she has not seen him since. She thinks perhaps he saw the burning towers...
Read moreDear Peoples Weekly World Reader
November 10, 2001Sept. 11 changed the world forever. That is what the corporate media keeps telling us. And it is true. But does their uncritical backing of George W. Bush’s “war on terrorism” suggest that they have learned any lessons from that tragedy? They keep pounding the drums for a wider war, even though it is clear that war will only kill more innocent people while not eradicating terrorism. Our approach is...
Read moreBanquet honors Phila. activists
November 10, 2001PHILADELPHIA – A crowd of well-wishers gathered at the Stadium Holiday Inn here for the annual People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo Banquet Nov.5. They were there to honor two outstanding leaders and activists – Pedro Rodriguez and Frances Gabow. Rodriguez is the executive director of the Action Alliance of Senior Citizens of Greater Philadelphia. He is also the president of the Dominican Civil Rights Association of Philadelphia and chairs the Philadelphia...
Read moreDay of Action: Free the Charleston 5
November 10, 2001The national spotlight is once again on South Carolina as five dockworkers, four African-American and one white, seek justice in a Charleston court this week when their long-awaited trial begins.
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Read moreTobacco: a bigger killer than terrorism
November 03, 2001Another new challenge faces the United States and, thankfully, this one has little to do with terrorism. In recent weeks, the Bush administration has learned the importance and the value of diplomacy. The challenge before our leaders now will be to take the cooperative spirit that has emerged since Sept. 11, and harness it for a new urgent issue. Public health is that urgent issue. The first-ever global public health...
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