Dumbocracy, the silence of Americans

Peter Angelos promised the temporary workers at Camden Yards that he'd make sure they'd get paid living wages. But when it came to bat, Angelos struck out.

Angelos says he's a friend of labor. But he's more a "Shoeless Joe" than a true friend, saying he's on labor's team when he's really playing for big business and baseball billionaires. A friend of labor doesn't stand by and let hard working folks get paid poverty-wages. And a friend of labor keeps his word to labor. Period.

If this nation is to be wrenched back from dictatorship and restored to a Republic, YOU will have to do it.

Listen to two delegates from the IFTU (Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions) speaking in Baltimore regarding organized labor and the occupation of Iraq.

The Subject of National Security, continued

5 days & nights of events to counter the biotech industry, resist their tamperings with life, and celebrate healthy altern

My current project enabled me to take a quick glance at Europe and the turning points of European history which in turn yielded unusual patterns. My fear is that some of the European bloodshed is forthcoming. I can’t say when and where, but I fear a war of greater magnitude is in the offing. All of those inequitable distributions of people are a possible tinder-box ready to blow up in our face. When you combine all those factors (ethnicity, lousy peace treaties, propensity toward conquests), the outcome is a pretty certain war of greater magnitude.

...Restore Funding for Some Social Programs ~ Interview with Anita Dancs, research director of the National Priorities Project, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus

The high cost of nuances

From August 5th – 7th, ARA Toronto will be hosting Youth Against Hate (ARA Network Conference) 2005! The conference is slated to take place in downtown Toronto, and promises to be attended by hundreds of anti-fascist / anti-racism activists from across Canada, Quebec, the First Nations, and the United States.