The Rouge Forum No Blood for Oil web page has been updated, complete with a new Abolish ROTC poster that is more than one-half century old, and, with luck, not good for our lifetimes.
As usual, the page hosts several articles from Robert Fisk, one of the few western journalists with a grasp of the current crises, Here is one.
The Historians Against the War will meet in Austin in February 2006 and our friends in the Whole Schooling Consortium are hosting a conference in Portland on May 12.
As the economic attacks on working life in the US sharpened, with up to 30,000 layoffs announced at Ford, the UAW, which has lost one million members in recent decades, offered to do nearly nothing—as the rank and file at Delphi corporation, facing massive cuts, began to organize outside their UAW and New York Transit workers, following a three day strike, voted down a concessions based contract negotiated by union leaders.
Last, Substance News, edited by blacklisted educator George Schmidt (a Chicago teacher with nearly thirty years in the system before he was fired for publishing the hated CASE test) needs your support. Here’s the latest Substance.
There are several national demonstrations against the war coming up. Likely to be the largest is one planned for April 29th. Watch for a full description in the next Rouge Forum News.
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