by Danilo Mandic
- 1.3 Million More Americans Slip into Poverty
Privatized Prisons and the “Tough on Crime” Penology by Tim Hambourger
-- Boycott Sinclair! The Sinclair Broadcast Group is a media company that owns TV stations all over the US. The company plans to tell all its stations to air a biased, anti-John Kerry "documentary" just before the election and call it "news." Broadcasters in the US are supposed to serve the public interest, not their own political agendas. You can learn about pressuring the Sinclair Group to not air propaganda by clicking on the link above.
-- Haitian Textile Workers Locked Out, Need Your Support. Haitian
textile workers who produce materials used by Levi Strauss have been battling for the simple right to have a union and to
be free of management violence. You can help them. Send Your Message Now
2005
-- Greenpeace Petition: A report last-year from within the World Bank recommended that the Bank stop funding fossil fuel projects like oil and coal and switch to funding renewable energy. On Aug. 06 2004, the World Bank rejected most of the reforms in the report. Tell the World Bank that they should worry more about the future of our environment and less about reactionary interests of Big Oil
- New Corporate Tax Bill Corpwatch.org examines the way Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics get breaks with new tax cuts.
- Help Stop Bush's Social Security Privatization!
Privatizing Social Security will mean huge benefit cuts and less
security for working families--but for Charles Schwab,
privatizing Social Security may mean millions of new customers
to bail out what Business Week Online called the "ailing"
company.
Charles Schwab and other investment firms "could reap billions
of dollars in management fees and commissions over the long
term" if Social Security is privatized, according to the Jan. 18
Los Angeles Times.
Take action now. Tell Charles Schwab: Don't support Social
Security privatization.
-Audit Slams U.S. Handling of Iraqi Funds:
The coalition authority in charge through June was lax in its oversight of $9 billion, report says. Officials say the study ignores hardships. Read about it. By T. Christian Miller, Times Staff Writer.
- Top Shiite Iraqi PM contender brands Allawi's government most corrupt in Iraq's history.
- Healthcare under Fire
-- Endorse the March 19 Protest!! The Whole World Will Be Marching and Watching The world-wide antiwar movement has called for massive demonstrations against the war on the weekend on March 19-20 -- the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. We have a responsibility to respond with renewed determination and commitment in the face of the Bush Administration's launching of a new phase of the war against the Iraqi people.
Dollars & Sins Interviews NOAM CHOMSKY - March 11, 2005 (with Danilo Mandic) --- America's leading intellectual dissident and anti-corporate legend Noam Chomsky speaks about globalization, the World Social Forum, the Iraqi elections, academia and student activism in an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Dollars & Sins. Chomsky is Institute Professor of linguistics at MIT and you can visit his offical website here.
- Dollars & Sins at Progressive Student Leaders Conference! Dollars and Sins participated in activist workshops, lectures and discussions at the "What's Next? Conference: Student Leaders and the Future of the Progressive Movement" in Philly. Thanks to everyone at Penn for making the conference such a success!
- Tell Your Senators: US Out of Iraq! Concerned citizens are trying to at least get a debate in the US Senate on mandating an exit strategy from Iraq, and a commitment to no permanent US bases there. Please note that one of our US Senators from New Jersey, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, is one of the six target Senators.