The solidarity charter program was developed last fall after several major unions split away from the AFL-CIO, taking more than a quarter of the federation’s membership with them and threatening the viability of state and local labor councils.

Workers and taxpayers often lose twice when states and cities give out huge corporate tax breaks in the name of “economic development.”

Dr. Lara pointed out that “sometimes politicians and intellectuals —due to a lack of knowledge or ill will— slander our political system and try to deny our democracy, the legitimacy of our electoral system..."

Bro. Cho Joon-Ho, KCTU president, ordered an emergency rally in front of National Assembly building tonight, in the face of moves by the ruling party to pass the non-regular workers' labor law bill, despite strong opposition from unions and civic society.

Last month, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld compared Hugo Chávez to Hitler, noting that “He’s a person who was elected legally — just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally..."

TO: THE SECRETARY OF STATE
SUBJECT: Welcome to Guantanamo’s Exercise Program!
1. Our program has 500 full-time participants from all parts of the world....

Among the more than one million people malaria kills annually are hundreds of thousands of children. Most are under age five, their immature immune systems failing to control the aggressive disease.

Fatah's 134-member revolutionary council began yesterday its first session in the Presidency compounded in Rammallah, a first meeting after Hams swept victory in 25 January's PLC elections.

The nursing home hired 35 off-duty police officers as a “private police force.” They installed surveillance cameras to watch workers distributing union materials.

In Pakistan, the US has also found a willing partner to employ what the FBI describes as “locally acceptable forms of interrogation.”...Instead of publicly condemning this behaviour President Bush is coming to Islamabad to grant legitimacy...

It turns out, we missed more than a few of the dirty tricks Karl Rove, Ken Blackwell, and their GOP used to get themselves four more years...One of them has just surfaced to the staggering tune of 175,000 purged voters in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland,Ohio)...

The Arroyo regime is trying to present this "state of national emergency" as distinct from martial law, in order to avoid the constitutional requirement for Congress to ratify such declaration.

The struggle against racism is not simply a subset of the many-layered and interconnected struggle for democracy, but the most important element of these struggles.

Thirty percent of the nation’s Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are ready for Congress to consider a national health care plan.

Secretary of State Rice declared that she intended to pursue an “inoculation” strategy against Venezuela.

The Mad Housers, a non-profit, volunteer, charitable organization founded in 1988 by a group of Georgia Tech architecture students, builds emergency huts for the homeless in the Atlanta area at no charge.

Hamas has presented its choice of Prime Minister to President Mahmoud Abbas, as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine says it has agreed in principle to join a Hamas-led government.

The meeting went on under a cordial and respectful atmosphere that has always characterized relations between the Cuban government, religious organizations and foreign dignitaries, the newspaper underlines.

There is now a systematic campaign to assassinate Iraqis who speak out against the occupation.

A non-political commentary to the 2006 elections in Palestine...If you are satisfied with what TV and radio stations and newspapers in the West say about political developments in Palestine, there is no need for you to keep on reading this.