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Cuba �Caravanistas� Do Dallas

Fri, 03 Jul 2008 16:19:01 EDT

DALLAS, TX � We are one of the cities where routes converge for the dozens of Americans heading for Laredo, Texas, then to revolutionary Cuba. On June 27, 41 of them came to Munger Place United Methodist Church from Little Rock, Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, and Denver.

Steelworkers vow to fight racism, elect Obama

Fri, 03 Jul 2008 14:31:14 EDT

LAS VEGAS � Over 3,000 Steelworker delegates filled the Las Vegas Bally Hotel convention center last week with raring-to-go enthusiasm for �taking back America for working people� in the 2008 elections. One delegate described it as more like a strike vote than a convention. �The membership is fired up and ready to go. We don�t have to be rallied by the leadership, they just need to turn us loose and tell us where to be,� she said.

U.S. mayors back single-payer health care

Thu, 02 Jul 2008 20:28:58 EDT

The U.S. Conference of Mayors June 23 adopted a resolution endorsing HR 676, the National Health Insurance Act. The bill, introduced by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), would expand the Medicare system to cover everyone in the United States under a single-payer national health insurance system.

Cuban exiles linked to Mexican gangs

Thu, 02 Jul 2008 04:01:35 EDT

A scandal is brewing that connects rightwing Cuban exiles in the United States with violent Mexican drug gangs trained by the U.S. military. The story first broke in the leftwing Mexico City daily, La Jornada. On June 12, 33 undocumented Cuban immigrants and four Central Americans were picked up by Mexican immigration authorities. A gang of armed men held up the bus transporting the immigrants and kidnapped them.

South Africans pledge solidarity with Zimbabwe

Wed, 01 Jul 2008 21:01:28 EDT

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe�s ZANU-PF party held a widely condemned election on June 29 in which the opposition dropped out because of widespread violence and intimidation. The African Union on June 30 joined the international chorus in rejecting the outcome. South African President Thabo Mbeki is mediating a �power-sharing deal between ZANU-PF and the opposition Movement for a Democratic Change.

GOP blocks affordable housing action

Wed, 01 Jul 2008 20:24:25 EDT

With 8,000 homeowners hit by foreclosure each day, legislation to meet the crisis ought to be high on the Capitol Hill agenda. But fighters for decent, affordable housing say the Bush administration and Republican lawmakers are blocking action.

Gun ruling heats up in Chicago

Wed, 01 Jul 2008 20:19:04 EDT

Every day 82 people die to gun violence throughout the U.S. according to the Centers for Disease Control. Chicago Public School officials say 27 students have died by gunfire since September 2007.

U.S. funding terror groups in Iran

Wed, 01 Jul 2008 20:12:53 EDT

As worry mounts that the same right-wingers who got us into the Iraq war are now pushing for war with Iran, journalist Seymour Hersh has revealed that the Bush administration is supporting terrorist groups in Iran that are believed to be linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban.

AFL-CIO officially endorses Obama

Wed, 01 Jul 2008 14:05:00 EDT

The AFL-CIO officially endorsed Barack Obama for president on June 26.

Shades of Green: June 28, 2008

Wed, 01 Jul 2008 14:04:39 EDT