Sep 28, 2002

South Dakota: Herseth takes lead in House race / Maine: UAW member campaigns at grassroots forum / Massachusetts: Latinos making history / Iowa: Jeffords campaigns for Harkin / Arizona: No War with Iraq / Tripping over the kids to answer the phone?

Worker’s Correspondence


Dave Herbert, longtime member of the Oklahoma Senate, a Democrat, should have talked to the delegations of union people who came to his office in February 2001, after he introduced anti-union legislation that led to “Right to Work/scab” status. One of the unionists who came to talk to Herbert was an electrician named Joe Smith.

The following are excerpts from the statement of National Organization for Women (NOW) President Kim Gandy at the Sept. 13 “March to Justice” Rally at the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Bush administration is poised to launch an attack on children’s health care. Crying the blues of “fiscal prudence,” the president is withdrawing one-fourth of the federal financing of children’s health insurance coverage, exposing millions of children to illnesses that could be cured and/or stopped from getting worse.

Cientos salieron al pueblo de Lares para celebrar la gesta revolucionaria del 23 de septiembre del 1868 que trató de liberar a Puerto Rico del colonialismo español.

WASHINGTON – Civil rights and labor leader Cesar E. Chavez was honored here Sept. 18 as a stamp in his honor was unveiled. The stamp’s unveiling was attended by members of Congress, labor and civil rights leaders.

In a city where tents and makeshift homes are part of many working-class neighborhoods, activists, residents, homeless and handicapped citizens protested the recent closings of more downtown shelters and low-cost hotels.

Review


Victor – An Unfinished Song, by Joan Jara