International – Page 248

Steelworkers warn Congress: Don’t back trade that hurts workers

June 24, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The Steelworkers have laid out, again, a detailed case against all three pending "free trade" agreements - with Colombia, Panama and South Korea - circulating on Capitol Hill.

Bring them home, for Afghans’ future and ours

June 21, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

As the world awaits President Obama's announcement about withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, an intense debate is taking place within the administration about the drawdown.

World’s domestic workers win historic victory

June 20, 2011 By Dan Margolis

The new rules, which must be ratified by at least two countries to come into effect, calls for national governments to ensure that discrimination is ended and that child and forced labor be abolished outright.

“Viva Riva!” goes beyond Blaxploitation in today’s Congo

June 16, 2011 By Ed Rampell

Beneath the shoot-'em-up sensibility, a critical eye is clearly at work, skewering the former Belgian colony, in this 2011 Pan African Film Festival's Best Feature Film prize winning film.

Filmmaker asks: “Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up?”

June 15, 2011 By Bill Meyer

Saul Landau's new film abot the Cuban Five holds the position that our government has been jailing the wrong "terrorists."