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In July, 2002, the 200 predominantly women workers at the Women's Institute initiated an organizing campaign through the services union which is affiliated with the Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (FAT).
At the Arena District
Used to be, going to "the circus" meant the smell of sawdust, roasted peanuts
and elephant droppings everywhere. There were funky ringmasters, fat ladies,
trapeze artists and burbling snotty children running wild.
Such shows do still exist. They may, indeed, be with us forever, their hokey
charm and cheap admission price hopefully proving sufficient to sustain them
in a jaded, high-tech age.
But as everyone knows, there's a new circus in town---the Cirque du Soleil, a
$500 million multinational mega-monster on the brink of establishing its own
Las Vegas venue (as opposed to CircusCircus, which is SO 20th Century). Right
now the Cirque plays Treasure Island, which also features an hourly pirate
show on the strip.
But one of its many travelling affiliates has set up shop in the Arena
District, right where the old Ohio Pen used to sit. It's playing to justly packed
houses, to the extent that---despite its pricey admission tab--- its stay here
is being extended.
A tent it has, one that indeed seats 2500 people. Sawdust? Elephants?
We can only imagine Limited founder and apparel mag- nate Leslie Wexner’s consternation over the leaking of a document entitled, Wexner Analysis: Israeli Communication Priorities 2003. The report was prepared for the Wexner Foundation and provides insight into Wexner’s relationship with the state of Israel. As the Cleveland Plain Dealer noted, Wexner keeps his personal life “under padlock.” But what has surfaced over the years simply adds to his mystery. In the Shapiro murder file, personally ordered destroyed by Columbus Chief of Police James Jackson, Wexner is listed as an alleged organized crime associate. A December 1995 Architectural Digest article and a follow-up 1996 New York Times report detailed the inner sanctum of Wexner’s former Manhattan townhouse, one of the largest in the city.
For several years leading up to 1992, the DLC curried favor with high-profile political journalists as they repeated the mantra that the Democratic Party needed to be centrist. Co-founded by Clinton in the mid-1980s, the DLC emphasized catering to “middle class” Americans — while the organization filled its coffers with funding from such non-middle-class bastions as the top echelons of corporate outfits like Arco, Prudential-Bache, Dow Chemical, Georgia Pacific and Martin Marietta.
Now is not the time to stand back timidly hoping it will work out well in the end. The population of Baghdad is broiling through the 115-degree summer without electricity or water for much of the time. Given the background poverty and generally hideous conditions, the place is a major riot waiting to happen.
George W. Bush and his administration deliberately undertook a massive campaign to wage illegal and aggressive war against the people of Iraq. The narrow focus on one fraudulent claim in the State of the Union address regarding Iraq buying uranium from Africa ignores the much broader campaign of falsification used to whip the people into a war frenzy.
“First, Mr. Campbell presented significant new DNA evidence that was not available to the jury at the time of trial. Although this new evidence does not exonerate Mr. Campbell, it does contradict an impression that was left in the minds of some jurors during the trial. Second, attorneys for Mr. Campbell have presented evidence bearing on the credibility of two important prosecution witnesses. It is now apparent that two informants who were incarcerated at the time of their testimony were, in fact, interested in seeking more lenient treatment from prosecutors as a result of their testimony. This information was not presented at trial even though it would have enabled the jurors to more fully assess the veracity of the witnesses’ testimony.”
The mainstream media did not present the results from the perspective of a third party candidate nearly toppling an endorsed candidate of the Franklin County Republican Party, the Columbus Dispatch did provide straightforward coverage of Fitrakis’ policies as a Green Party candidate. The Alive provided the best in-depth coverage of the campaign. Both This Week and the Messenger publications provided fair and accurate coverage of the Green Party campaign.
Wes Boyd, one of the founders of Moveon.org, discussed the Internet as a “sticky medium.” Those who sign on to an Internet site tend to stay, he said, in contrast to those who see a TV ad. The Internet enables two-way communication and, therefore, a greater sense of involvement and opportunity for grassroots politics.