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The events following 9/11 have been harried, and often times overwhelming. There has been a flood of new publications since that year trying to piece together a comprehensive analysis of what occurred, what is presently going on and most importantly, why?

The threats to human lives on the U.S./Mexico border have increased in the recent years. It is the great indifference of the two nations, the U.S. in particular, which bred these conditions. The governments on both sides feel it is up to the other to prevent these deaths, when both are to blame.

As I enter the sterile confines of work I’m greeted by 90 pre and post pubescent voices chiming endearments, “Mama Chula!�? “Aute�? “Curly Sue�? and variations of my name “Mel�? “Missy�? “Lissa�?.

As of the 2000 U.S. Census there were seven million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Since then the number has undoubtedly grown and will continue to grow. These immigrants, predominantly from Mexico, are here to find a better life, but end up doing the jobs that most citizens are unwilling to do. They work mainly in agricultural industries or in low-paying jobs in the hotel and restaurant industry.

Over the last several years, hundreds of labor, community and student activists have been engaged in campaigns pushing for living-wage ordinances. Living-wage ordinances implemented at the municipal and county levels raise the minimum wage (that ranges from $5.15 to $6.50 per hour) to a more livable wage for workers that are paid from public funds.

You Back the Attack! We Bomb Who We Want!: Remixed War Propaganda, a new book by Micah Ian Wright is unlike any peace book you’ve ever read. Published by Seven Stories Press, Back the Attack is actually a unique picture book that takes historical propaganda posters from World War II and alters them into satirical critiques of the “War on Terrorism�? and the Bush domestic policy.

Shoshanna Johnson is a single, Black mother who was one of the first Prisoners of War in the immoral and illegal invasion of Iraq.

Doroteo Garcia works the night shift cleaning classrooms at Stanford University, one of the largest employers in California’s Silicon Valley. As a steward for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1877, Doroteo has been active in his union’s efforts to lift janitors out of poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area, as part of SEIU’s national Justice for Janitors campaign. He is also involved as a community leader, organizing for amnesty and immigrants rights.

I'd like to thank Dynamic Magazine for covering so thoroughly the Bush Administration's drive to war and empire, and the peace movement's struggle to curtail it.

The International Union of Students (IUS) was joined by regional students\' organizations from around the world for the September 13, 2003 Global Student Day of Action to Defend Public Education. The action was aimed at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Students around the world are calling for all levels of education to be removed from the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), a set of rules about international trade in the service sector adopted by the WTO. GATS forces developing countries in particular to open public services, health care and public education to privatization by giant corporations.

Immigrants have repeatedly been the scapegoats for capitalism’s economic and social problems. Land owners, industrialists, politicians and vigilantes have always blamed immigrants and subjected them to violence and terror at the same time that their labor was being exploited for profit. Unfortunately the U.S. labor movement was sometimes caught up in anti-immigrant hysteria, blaming the foreign-born for taking “American jobs.�?

What’s going on when radio show hosts go on a rampage smashing the Dixie Chicks? How about when federal agents harass family members of Michael Farenti’s band “Spearhead�?? Or when the famous Picasso painting “Guernica�? is covered at the United Nations when Colin Powell spoke? What’s up with MTV releasing a statement that they would not air videos because of their political content?

Hip-hop was born in New York but if you talk to most young people in São Paulo, Brazil they’ll tell you that they feel like it belongs to them.

Affirmative action policies that have provided for people of color and women greater access, though imperfectly, to higher education and many government programs have long been considered one of the most meaningful accomplishments of the civil rights movement.

One day a group of ten year olds walked into a bookstore on the south side of Chicago. They looked around at the different books. One young boy saw the book Always Bring a Crowd: The Story of Frank Lumpkin, Steelworker, by Beatrice Lumpkin. The boy recognized the name Frank Lumpkin, and when asked where he had learned it, he responded, “In school, we learned about Martin Luther King, that woman who sat down on the bus, and Frank Lumpkin.�?

After a three-year struggle for union representation at the Chicago-based Azteca Tortillas, one of the nation’s largest and most successful tortilla producers, 63 employees won a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election on April 12, 2002, and became members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) Local 1159.

It was only a few days after the first march organized by Uptown Youth for Peace and Justice on December 14, when we started making plans for the January 18 anti-war demo in Washington, D.C.