Day October 15, 2003

The perils of withdrawal

Grocery strikers in Koreatown ANSWER LA brought about 30 people (plus food and coffee) to support strikers at a Ralph’s in Koreatown Tuesday tonight. Prior to that, at our regular Tuesday volunteer meetings, several of the strikers spoke. They are fighting…

Bolivia’s right wing government blinks, is now about to fall Bolivia’s embattled government has appealed for calm as thousands of miners, peasants and farmers march toward La Paz to join a popular revolt as the death toll in clashes with…

Someone sends Turkey a message about their troops coming to Iraq Baghdad. A suicide attacker exploded a car bomb Tuesday outside the embassy of Turkey, which has recently offered to send peacekeeping troops to Iraq. Turkey, at least in public, is…

Supreme Court clears way for medical pot The U.S. Supreme Court handed a major victory Tuesday to the nine states that allow the medical use of marijuana, refusing to let the federal government punish doctors for recommending pot to their…