Month: May 2009
Mumia Activists Found Not Guilty
NOT GUILTY!!! was the verdict for Kevin and Maiga, Mumia supporters who were tried for allegedly posting fliers on utility poles using nails. The fliers were for an upcoming book signing party for Mumia’s book, Jailhouse Lawyers.The charges read that the defendants were hammering nails into metal poles, on South Street in Philadelphia, a popular … Continue reading Mumia Activists Found Not Guilty
The Mumia Exception
[by J. Patrick O’Connor]Since his conviction in 1982 for the murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, Mumia Abu-Jamal, through his numerous books, essays and radio commentaries, has become the face of the anti-death penalty movement in the United States and an international cause célèbre. Paris, for example, made him an honorary citizen in 2003, … Continue reading The Mumia Exception
Scourge of the Ocean
Boycott Stella D’oro
[by Marty Goodman]“No contract, no cookies!,” say strikers at the Stella D’oro bakery in the Bronx. This great labor battle has been raging in a working-class neighborhood called Kingsbridge since August. About 135 workers, mostly women immigrants from Latin America and Africa with a mixture of Italians and others, have taken on a union-busting outfit … Continue reading Boycott Stella D’oro
CT Student Paper Editor Dismissed for YSA Ties
Review of “The Greatest Story Ever Sold”
Frank Rich, “The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina,” (Penguin Press, 2007), 352 pp., $15.00by Joe Auciello All of the factual material in the “The Greatest Story Ever Told” has been published before, and it is hardly news that the Bush administration exaggerated and lied about Saddam … Continue reading Review of “The Greatest Story Ever Sold”