Month February 2004

Currency ‘volatility’ worries G-7 officials Top economic policymakers from the world’s seven major industrial powers indicated strong concern Saturday about the dollar’s recent sharp fall against the euro, issuing a statement denouncing “excess volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates.”…

March 20 unity statement! The major antiwar coalitions in the US, ANSWER and UFJP, and others have reached agreement on a unity statement for the March 20 demonstrations. This is welcome news. The unity statment, which will formally be released…

And so did Los Angeles! New York City Council opposes Patriot Act.. New York City, site of the country’s most horrific terrorist attack, this week became the latest in a long list of cities and towns that have formally opposed…

California Youth Authority “classroom” Youth Authority to review use of cages (LA Times article and photo)

California gulags, er, prisons The LA Times has been running a series of articles on the atrocious, brutal conditions in California prisons – much of it due, in my opinion, to the previous Governor, Democratic Gray Davis, who took lots…