Oct 30, 2004

?¢d?|¬ Ohio — More than 1,000 union members marched on the offices of Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, Oct. 25, to demand that he protect the rights of 700,000 newly registered Ohio voters threatened by Republican vote suppression tactics in this crucial battleground state. click here for Spanish text

“We have the numbers, we have the momentum,” said New Mexico labor leader Danny Rivera. “It’s going to be about performance” — about who gets the voters to the polls.

LANSING, Mich. — Like their counterparts elsewhere, people in this battleground state are finding creative ways to defeat Bush. Recently erected on streets near the state capital are three billboards stating, “For All Our Children’s Future, Lansing Area Families for Kerry.”

SAN FRANCISCO — The fat was in the fire Oct. 26 as operators of 14 large downtown hotels defied San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s demand to end a four-week lockout of their workers and accept a proposed 90-day cooling-off period previously agreed by the union.

George W. Bush is squirming to evade questions on why U.S. occupation forces in Iraq allowed 380 tons of high explosives, of the kind used in triggering nuclear explosions, to vanish from the Al Qaqaa weapons depot under U.S. control.

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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is steamrolling towards the closure of the trauma center at the county’s Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center.

SMITHERS, W.Va.: Coal miners picket for health care / FRANKFORT, Ky.: Teachers save their health care / WASHINGTON: Anti-Patriot Act resolutions dwarf Act itself / LAS VEGAS, Nev.: Early voting signals huge turnout

PHILADELPHIA — More than 100,000 people filled the center of the city here Oct. 25 to welcome Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and former President Bill Clinton. Just two days earlier in the same city the Black Radical Congress (BRC) hosted a forum to get out the vote on Election Day.

HIBBING, Minn. — An enthusiastic crowd of 5,000-7,000 Iron Rangers packed the Hibbing Memorial Building Oct. 19 to hear Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. The crowd was warmed up with anti-Bush chants like: “Like father, like son — one term and you’re done!”