2001 - April

Tommy Thompson,
Governor of Wisconsin,
Now Secretary of Health and Human Services,
Under George W. Bush,
Stands stiff and looks caustically at the camera...

On April 22, a broad coalition including organized labor, environmental groups and community groups will converge on Quebec City in the Canadian province of Quebec to demonstrate against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which will impose NAFTA’s “free-trade� policies of job displacement, union busting, deregulation, privatization and environmental destruction on the entire western hemisphere.

For the second year in a row the Student Labor Action Project (SLAP) held the April 4 Student Labor Day of Action to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was killed on that date while organizing sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968. This year, the 33rd Anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King, student organizations and unions staged actions in over 80 cities.

30 members of the Youth of SIP (Party for Socialist Power) in Turkey were detained and arrested April 6 while they were putting up posters against NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

Since he entered office, President Bush has made it his business to restrict and eliminate women’s rights. The man who said that he would do everything in his power to restrict abortions is indeed carrying out the mandate from the religious right.