BOMB PLANT NEWS | DOE Inspector General Issues Report Focuses on Questionable SRS Contractor Hiring
In its rush to build the costly SRS MOX plant, the unnamed MOX Contactor (Shaw Areva MOX Services) was found to be in violation of employment law and told by NNSA in a letter: "The letter also notified the contractor that some of the subcontractors working on the Site were not complying with statutory requirements to verify that employees are U.S. citizens or are otherwise legally entitled to employment in the United States."

Huey P. Newton
                                                                                                                             Huey P. Newton (1942-1989) founded the Afro-American Society and was a co-founder of the Black Panther Party, serving as its minister of defense during much of the 1960s. Later he turned to community service for the poor. Newton was born February 17, 1942, in Monroe, Louisiana. The youngest of seven children, Huey was named for [...]

CORE Charges Richard M. Daley & Chicago Board of Education with Union-Busting!
Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators [CORE] Charges Daley/Board of Education with Union-Busting |Calls for Overturn of the 1995 Amendatory Act and an End to Mayoral Control Quietly, with little public debate, on November 18, 2009, the Chicago Board of Education could authorize 8,130 additional charter seats, increasing charters' current Chicago market share from 7.9% to 9.8% according to Chicago Public Schools data compiled by CORE researchers. CPS proposes to open nine new charter schools in 2010 and 2011 and convert seven contract schools into charters.

Coming soon..,
  Posted in anti-war, Peace Tagged: anti-war, John Lennon, Peace, War is Over, Yoko Ono

The 1979 Greensboro Massacre
November 3, 1979 marks the 30th Anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre. On that late morning, at the corner of Carver and Everitt Streets in Greensboro, North Carolina, forty Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis handed each other shotguns and automatic weapons from the trunks of their cars and opened fire on black and white anti-Klan demonstrators and union organizers who had gathered at Morningside Homes, a black housing project.