Vol. 73/No. 17      May 4, 2009

News articles

• All out for May Day! Legalization now!
  • Chicago conference calls May 1 action
  • No deportations! End the ICE raids!
• Washington may expand military use in Somalia
• Black farmers to hold rally against gov’t discrimination
• Int’l ‘Day of Action’ called to halt the execution of Troy Davis
• Meetings spur donations to ‘Militant’ fund
• Opposition to U.S. embargo of Cuba marks ‘Americas’ summit
• Benito Juárez: Mexican revolutionary democrat
• Planned gov’t layoffs in Puerto Rico protested
• Thousands held in modern day ‘debtor prisons’
• Afghan women protest law that subjugates them to men
• Target week to boost ‘Militant’ circulation drive
• Pentagon seeks shifts in spending for ‘long war’
• White House vents documents on torture of ‘terror’ prisoners
• On the Picket Line
• Workers in Greece say, ‘Bosses should pay for crisis, not us’
• U.S. agriculture head says ‘food scarcity’ is threat to stable world
• 25, 50 and 75 years ago
• Lessons from fight against fascism in 1930s Spain
• Cuba’s example is focus of New Jersey meeting
• Students in Montreal discuss Cuban Revolution
• Union officials echo bosses’ ‘immigration reform’
• Immigration raids, patrols on borders to continue
• Boston meeting debates course for Palestinians
• Correction
• Letters