Blogging in the Crawford Heat
I came to Crawford today, and it's a little different from DC in several ways, but mostly it's hotter. I've been to both Camp Caseys, and am blogging this from the cool of the Crawford Peace House. At Camp Casey 1, I went across the road and talked to the half-dozen pro-war protesters.
The US government requests more time to make decision on the Five
According to experts, the 30-day extension application is an attempt by the US government to lengthen the process, and corresponds to an order by the US Attorney General who should decide whether to finally appeal the decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court.
Judge Roberts and Workers: Against Women’s Rights, Pay Equity, for Bush Labor Stands
“There have been almost daily revelations that Roberts was a charter member of the Reagan-Bush legal policy team that attempted to dismantle the civil rights remedies,” including affirmative action, previous presidents backed, said Ralph Neas, executive director of People for the American Way.
Pledge to Avoid Wal-Mart’s “Back to School” Sales
America’s biggest retailer—with $10.3 billion in profits last year—has a shameful record of child labor violations, sex discrimination, low wages and lousy benefits...More than 30,000 Working Family e-Activists have pledged to buy back-to-school supplies somewhere other than Wal-Mart this year...
KYRGYZSTAN: The water problems of a provincial town
The lack of clean drinking water in the town of Karakol, around 600 km east of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, is a problem which creates a variety of health hazards for the local people. It’s typical of many medium-sized communities in Central Asia in the post-Soviet era.
Specialists Discuss Health in Africa
During the 55th session of the WHO-Africa committee, the director of the international organization for Africa asked the delegates to declare 2006 as the year of the fight against AIDS... According to the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS (UNAIDS), over 40 million people are infected with HIV, of which 64 percent live in South Saharan Africa. South Africa is the nation most affected by the disease, with over 5.3 million HIV positive people.
Got Gas? Health Care? Go to Venezuela
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela is taking hateful comments from right-wing elites in the US in stride. Despite inflammatory comments by the Bush administration and the barely coherent ravings of Christian Coalition founder and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson about assassinating the elected Venezuelan president, Chávez continues to express his solidarity with the people of the US who struggle for peace, democracy and social justice.
Venezuela Denounces at UN Incitement to Kill President
The provocation occurred on the eve of the Sixtieth UN General Assembly to be attended by 191 heads of states, in which topics of great significance for humanity will be discussed,including the eradication of poverty, the development of the countries of the South and UN Reform.
After Protests: Haitian Police Arm Attachés to Conduct Massacres in the Capital
In many Latin American countries, death-squads work hand in hand with the police, but discretely, and function mostly at night. In Haiti, the collaboration between official and unofficial repressive forces is conducted openly and in broad daylight.Such was the case in the Port-au-Prince slum of Belair on Aug. 10. Several Haitian National Police (PNH) vehicles led dozens of hooligans armed with guns, machetes, axes and clubs into the Belair districts of Solino and Ti Chery.
World Festival Declaration:'For Peace and Solidarity, We Struggle Against Imperialism and War!'
In coming years, prior to [the] next Festival, we will continue to struggle and to expand the scope of our actions on many occasions, with ever greater strength and determination...Now we are in a better position to continue our struggle through our respective local, national, regional and international organizations and structures against our common enemies: imperialism, exploitation and war.
