On the Line
On the Line Stop the Evictions Washington, D.C. On March 14, nearly 150 supporters joined twenty Katrina survivors in a demonstration to demand that Congress stop the eviction of displaced people...
...International Solidarity Washington, D.C...
...The fourth World Water Forum, sponsored by the World Bank, Coca-Cola, and other transnational companies, was held in Mexico City March 16-22...
...They marched from the Capitol to the White House with stops along the way including in front of FEMA headquarters...
...In Defense of Water Mexico City The World Water Council, a nongovernmental organization, brings together international agencies, government officials, scientists, and corporations to discuss water resource issues...
...Labor unions in eighteen capitals around the world demonstrated in front of Iranian embassies to demand respect for workers' rights on February 15...
...The South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families, a new coalition of community leaders from across the state, is launching a major grassroots mobilization to refer the new law to the November ballot...
...For more information, contact Katrina Information Network at www.katrinaaction.org...
...In Washington, more than 100 activists stood in solidarity with the Tehran bus drivers' union...
...Activists demonstrated at the event, advocating water as a human right and not as a commodity that should be privatized...
...womensaynotowar.org...
...CodePink organized a delegation of Iraqi women to tour the United States, and they also attended the peace march...
...For more information, go to www.sdhealthyfamilies.com...
...Activists also insisted that FEMA and the federal government fund the rehabilitation of the Gulf Coast...
...For more information, go to the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center at www.solidaritycenter.org Standing Up in South Dakota Sioux Falls, South Dakota On March 9, pro-choice activists organized a rally against South Dakota's new restrictive abortion law at the federal court building in downtown Sioux Falls...
...Rallies for Peace Women Say No to War Washington, D.C...
...For more information, go to www...
...The government arrested 500 bus drivers but later released the vast majority of them...
...On March 14, nearly 150 supporters joined twenty Katrina survivors in a demonstration to demand that Congress stop the eviction of displaced people from hotels...
...On the third anniversary of the Iraq War, people around the world held anti-war rallies...
...On International Women's Day, March 8, activists tried to deliver to President Bush 100,000 signatures calling for the withdrawal of all foreign troops and foreign fighters from Iraq...
...White House officials refused to take the petition...
...For more information, go to www.stopcorporateabuse.org March for Immigrant Rights In March, hundreds of thousands of people around the country demonstrated against a punitive immigration bill, sponsored by Representatives James Sensenbrenner and Peter King, which passed the House in December...
...The Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company called a strike in January to protest the detention of its president and to demand the government recognize its right to have a union...
Vol. 70 • May 2006 • No. 5
