How Yale clerical workers won their three-year strike for better pay and retirement benifits.

Boeing is not only one of the largest weapons manufacturers in the world, it is also a master of the fine art of quid pro quo. When the going gets tough, this Chicago-based giant gets tougher by calling in its favors and relying on friends in Washington. Just the latest instance of this can be seen in a unique leasing deal Boeing negotiated with the Air Force and almost squeezed through Congress. Frida Berrigan reports.

In April, two teen-age students in Oakland, California, got an unwelcome, real-life lesson in civics. During a heated class discussion at Oakland High School about politics and President Bush, the boys made comments the exact nature of which are in dispute, but which their teacher believed constituted a threat toward the president. The teacher went to the FBI. Kristie Reilly reports on this and other incidents in the current climate of surveillance.

All around the Eastern Mediterranean are the permanently temporary camps of the refugees from war and persecution. Old enemies encounter each other there, now friends on the same side, since both must fight the indifference of the outside world and their own loss of hope and prospects.

In July 2003, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield claimed that the world is a better place due to the Bush administration's war on Iraq. But is this true? Alain Gresh suggests that waves of chaos may be in the works after the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq as the US gets bogged down in the aftermaths.

In the mid-1990s, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) endorsed “secret trials, based on secret evidence,” for immigrants that the federal government was looking to deport, via a Star Chamber-like proceeding. He is also one of the key backers of the “Patriot Act II.” If it passes, it will allow federal agents, without the approval of a judge, to demand private records and compel testimony. It will also expand the use of the death penalty in terrorist financing cases, and make it tougher for defendants to get bail before trial.

"The Rev. Daniel Berrigan - poet, playwright, teacher and activist - returns to Ithaca this weekend in celebration of peace activism. The weekend of events, free and open to the public, will include poetry, music and political discussion."

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