Aug 10, 2002

In our struggle against apartheid, the great supporters were Jewish people. They almost instinctively had to be on the side of the disenfranchised, of the voiceless ones, fighting injustice, oppression and evil. I have continued to feel strongly with the Jews. I am a patron of a Holocaust center in South Africa. I believe Israel has a right to secure borders.

LOS ANGELES – The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) revealed this week that a secret Bush administration task force has threatened a military takeover of West Coast ports if the union decides to strike.

Gente que han estado luchando por 40 años para poner fin al bloqueo económico contra Cuba por Estados Unidos ganaron una gran victoria en la Cámara de Representantes a fines del mes pasado.

CHICAGO – A thousand people, mostly from Chicago’s Westside, marched on City Hall July 29 for affordable housing. The crowd, chanting wildly and jumping vibrantly, denounced their mayor for continuing to let developers destroy their neighborhoods, forcing them out of their homes, all the while making great profits.

BEIJING (Prensa Latina) – La demanda interna, uno de los principales motores impulsores de la expansión económica registrada en China en los últimos años, enfrenta ahora importantes retos para mantener su influencia en el desarrollo del país.

Civil liberties advocates say U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler’s Aug. 2 order that the Justice Department must release the names of detainees held since Sept. 11 is a significant repudiation of the Bush administration’s secret detention policies.

Commentary

Vice President Dick Cheney has spent most of the past year in hiding, ostensibly from terrorists, but increasingly it seems obvious that it is Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the public he fears. And for good reason: Cheney’s business behavior could serve as a textbook case for what’s wrong with the way corporate CEOs have come to play the game of business – and have been able to influence the administration of President George W. Bush.

Although the official unemployment rate for July stood at 5.9 percent, it was 9.9 percent if “hidden” unemployment – those who would work if they could find jobs – were taken into account, and that’s bad.

Bush’s war for oil/Senate puts business first

En una entrevista reportada en el diario La Opinión el pasado 4 de agosto, el actor mejicoamericano, Edward James Olmos, criticó a Estados Unidos diciendo que este país “está haciendo cosas peores que lo que no hicieron a nosotros los terroristas.”