He said more than 200 years have gone by, during which the "empire has tried to submit us and we have tried to be free", and he predicted that the peoples will defeat that US empire despite its efforts to prevail.

Jean-Juste flew on American Airlines to Miami where he was met at the airport by about 25 people, including leaders from Veye Yo, the Miami-based popular organization he helped found in the 1980s when he directed the Haitian Refugee Center.

Critics of the government have questioned the ship’s seaworthiness, the slow pace of rescue efforts and the lack of information provided to victims’ families.

The two deaths bring to 18 the total number of coal miners killed in the nation since the first of the year. A Jan. 3 explosion killed 12 miners and two others died in a Jan. 20 underground fire.

Detroit -- and there is no soft way to put this -- is a city on the edge of the abyss.

The Atlanta Transit Riders’ Union (ATRU) believes in the power of the people who ride buses.

Bush can run, but he cannot hide. He tries to hide behind fear, our fear.

Calling for opposition to the continued stationing of U.S. forces in Sagamihara and Zama, about 1,200 citizens took part in a rally in Sagamihara City on January 29.

Liberia’s new president, “Iron Lady” Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has sacked every political appointee from the outgoing administration at the ministry of finance as part of her crackdown on corruption.

The number of Members of US Congress supporting US Rep. John Conyers’s (D-MI) H. Res 635 has now jumped to 17.

Pride at Work mourns the passing of Coretta Scott King, 78. Symbolizing the struggle for civil rights, to the end Ms. King fought for equity, access and justice for all.

In his SOTU address, Bush once again advocated benefit plans that require workers to pay for benefits that were once fully employer-funded.

Bush bypassed topics related to the social and economic hurdles through which millions of American citizens are going in their daily struggle for survival.

Bush planned to fly US spy planes with UN colors over Iran to provoke war.

Tehran security forces arrest transportation workers and their families for trying to improve their work conditions.

I had just sat down and I was warm from climbing 3 flights of stairs back up from the bathroom so I unzipped my jacket. I turned to the right to take my left arm out, when the same officer saw my shirt and yelled; "Protester."

The lawlessness of the present occupant of the White House is well-known, with this reputation being further bolstered by the revelation of mass--and illegal--wiretapping of electronic communications, supposedly in pursuit of the "war on terror."

"The new Zim $50,000 note is not enough to buy a bottle of beer or a newspaper. How can it be expected to ease the problems of carrying huge sums of money?"

“We don’t have more than 30 pills left in our pharmacies to treat suspected cases, and each patient requires huge amounts of tablets for treatment to be effective,” said Tahseen Namiq of the Kurdish Ministry of Health.

Ann Arbor, Michigan's Lincoln High School students have successfully pressured school officials to bar military recruiters from approaching students in the hallways and lunchrooms of the school.