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Click here to check out what will happen at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students!

Click here to find all about the festival. Also on this page: download a NEW pamphlet that you can use to tell everyone you know what the festival is and how to get involved. You can also download the application to apply to attend the festival (PDF versions available).
Check out the official US Festival website at http://usnpc.net

WASHINGTON — Bruised but unbowed by labor’s failure to oust George W. Bush in the Nov. 2 election, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney told a news conference here that the movement will “fight like hell� to stop Bush’s ultra-right agenda in his second term. reprinted from the People's Weekly World newspaper
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If you turned on the TV on November 3rd CNN mentioned to you that young people showed up at the polls but it was nothing too impressive. They told you that while the numbers went up, so did all voter-turnout numbers and there was no significant shift or big change in how many young folks showed up as compared to the rest of the population. Some of them even went so far as to blame the youth for not turning out enough to impact the elections favorably for Kerry. But the numbers tell another story.

"Drop Bush, Not Bombs" CD Compilation A project co-sponsored by YCLUSA and Rebel-Soul Music Outreach Program Attention: Deadline extended to July 4!
Rebel-Soul will be accepting music and cartoons for the CD tracks, cover and website. Song selection, mastering and duplication will happen in July. The CD will be released and promoted in early July.

Are you heading down to D.C. for the April 25th March for Women's Lives? Below is more information from ChoiceUSA on how to get on the bus to make sure you are there for this historic day. Also, be on the look out for more info on where YCLers will be meeting up!

Print and Web Resources on the FTAA.

Globalization: it\'s a buzzword you can\'t escape. But what on earth does it mean? For some it\'s the ticket to a democratic world of instant communications and global prosperity. While for others it\'s a money-mad juggernaut, spinning wildly out of control, threatening both cultural and biological diversity.
The complex entanglement of cultures and economies has been growing since the colonial era and even before. So today commercial culture and the Western consumer model have seeped into every corner of the globe while gaps in wealth, food security and social provision continue to grow.