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Stimulus package: Workers needs at risk
The battle over who gets and who doesn’t from an economic stimulus package is now underway in the Senate as a coalition of labor, civil rights and other community organizations mobilized to prevent Congress from passing another corporate giveaway under the guise of stimulating the economy. By mid-week the AFL-CIO and other organizations had organized […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 17, 2001
Hartford police crush the right to dissent
No democracy can survive without dissent. Those who do not agree with the government must be able to exercise their right to be heard. We are now inured to the fact that those who are elected give us access only if we have money. The upsurge of street democracy in the past few years, made […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 13, 2001
Free Flores and Garcia
It was a day like any other. Villagers in the tiny town of Pizotia, in Southwest Mexico, were attending church or shopping in the open market. Rodolfo Montiel Flores, along with his wife and daughter, were strolling down the main street. While they were talking with neighbors, shots suddenly rang out. A local compesino (farmworker), […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 10, 2001
Six years after Rabin assassination: Rabin’s peace legacy continues
TEL AVIV – Approximately 100,000 people arrived for the mass remembrance for the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the Tel Aviv Rabin Square Nov. 3. On Nov. 4, 1995, right after a similar rally in this same square under the motto “For Peace, Against Political Violence,” Rabin was assassinated by an ultra-right student […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 10, 2001
Stop training terrorists with U.S. tax dollars
George W. Bush repeatedly states that he is going to hunt down and smoke out terrorists anywhere they may be hiding around the globe. He would do well to look in his own backyard. The first thing that comes to mind (after the CIA and his father) is the School of Americas (SOA) in Fort […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 10, 2001
Hartford police crush the right to dissent
No democracy can survive without dissent. Those who do not agree with the government must be able to exercise their right to be heard. We are now inured to the fact that those who are elected give us access only if we have money. The upsurge of street democracy in the past few years, made […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 10, 2001
A veteran’s call for peace
If you studied the mien of the men, you could tell the war was over. The lines of tension in faces were gone, the lurking fears that clouded eyes were gone, the cautious gaits were gone. Aided by a decent supply of “liberated” liquor, the men walked with abandoned swaggers and the perpetual laughter seemed […]
- By : Lou Diskin
- November 10, 2001
Preventing terrorism: Towards a new approach
In the aftermath of the tragic events of Sept. 11 and the continuing military strikes against Afghanistan, the danger looms of an endless cycle of violence and retribution. To prevent future terrorist acts, what needs to be done? Based on the research literature and the practical lessons of past efforts to address terrorism, six major […]
- By : Nicholas Abbey
- November 10, 2001
Letters
Fight 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 […]
- By : Nicholas Abbey
- November 10, 2001
Editorials
Election is setback for ultra-right Republican Michael Bloomberg eked out victory in the New York mayoral race using $60 million of his own fortune, and exploiting the weaknesses of Mark Green’s campaign and divisions among the Democrats. Bloomberg’s win was the exception to the rule in elections across the nation. Republican Bret Schundler was defeated […]
- By : Nicholas Abbey
- November 10, 2001