2001 - July

Low income communities of color, whether in Africa, the Carribean, Asia or in your own neighborhood, are feeling the impact of AIDS. The United Nations Global Conference on AIDS was recently held in New York to respond to the AIDS crisis. Three thousand people from all over the world attended both to decry the actions of U.S. corporations and promote solutions for prevention and treatment.

"Drop the Rock, Drop the Rock, Drop the Rock!!!" was the mantra that resonated from 500+ angry voices on a blistery hot day at the Harlem State Office Building on June 15.

Some 10,000 labor activists and youth from across the country gathered in Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, on June 9th to demand the immediate release of the Charleston 5.
All five are union members that have been under house arrest since January 2000 on felony charges of inciting a riot. They face up to five years in jail.

In the end, it was the collective voice of a California youth movement that rang loudest. The youth chanted, waved placards and raised clenched fists to protest plans to build the biggest per capita juvenile hall in the country in Oakland's Alameda County.