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February 7, 2003 The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear President Bush: On behalf of the Chicago City Council and the 75 other local elected bodies that have adopted resolutions urging an alternative to preemptive war against Iraq, I am writing…
For most families, the purchase of a home represents the single largest financial obligation of a lifetime. It’s all part of the “American Dream” according to the pitchmen for builders, lenders, brokers and other assorted players who make up the lucrative real estate industry. Too often, the “dream” becomes something closer to a nightmare when…
Despite well-known ties to Big Oil, Bush Administration officials have managed to keep a straight face as they insist that the drive to war against Iraq is motivated only by an effort to eliminate weapons of mass destruction and establish democracy. Tomorrow we’ll see what evidence Secretary of State Powell presents to the United Nations.…
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, one of the most important and successful civil rights laws in U.S. history, may soon be undermined by the Bush Administration’s Commission on Opportunity in Athletics. Title IX bars sex discrimination in any educational program or activity that receives federal funding, including athletics. The law gave women…
January 30, 2003 President George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: We greet you—our President, our nation’s highest military leader, and a member of the community of faith—in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. At a time when our nation, and you as its…
The deepening federal and state budgets are causing cuts that affect the most defenseless and least powerful of Americans. That, of course is the direct consequence of plutocracy — rule by the wealthy. Their ownership and control of the nation’s private assets is growing while the poor and middle class are losing. The latest figures…
Today, President George W. Bush showed the nation a cruel ignorance. 80,000 people will die and hundreds of thousands will be seriously injured this year at the hands of negligent or incompetent physicians and hospitals. President Bush ignored their suffering, and the evidence showing how vital are medical malpractice lawsuits in preventing a worsening of…
“Big Brother isn’t coming. He’s already here.” That is the warning issued in an advertisement in today’s New York Times. The advertisement was taken out by a broad coalition of individuals, including consumer advocate Ralph Nader, Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Ralph Neas of People for the American Way, Joan Claybrook of…
I wonder how Seymour Melman feels these days. For over half a century, this Columbia University industrial engineering professor (now emeritus) has been researching, writing and speaking about the massive overspending on the military portion of the federal budget and how this waste is de-industrializing America, costing millions of jobs and starving the investment in…
There was time when specialists in time-and-motion would take great pride in shaving five minutes off a production line in a factory. Time was money and time saved was money saved. Clearly, these time-saver experts would not have any idea of what to do about the billions of hours Americans have to waste every year…