People's Weekly World lead stories for June 14, 2003

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People's Weekly World lead stories for June 14, 2003


D.C. rally targets 2004 elections: 'Take back America'
By Tim Wheeler

WASHINGTON - Wearing plastic top hats and chanting, "Who needs Medicare?
I'm a millionaire!" over 1,000 mock-capitalists marched to Vice
President
Dick Cheney's residence, June 6, to thank him for pushing through
another
trillion dollar tax cut for the rich while slashing Medicaid and
education.


Read full story at http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/3583/1/167/


Bush faces heat on Iraq lies
By Sue Webb

With evidence mounting that George W. Bush and top administration
officials lied to the American people to justify the Iraq war, the smell
of Watergate, Iran-contra and other scandals is starting to waft over
the
Bush White House.


Read full story at http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/3584/1/167/


June 19, 1953: The murder of the Rosenbergs
By Fred Gaboury

Think back to the political climate of the early 1950s: Senator Joseph
McCarthy on the prowl. Alger Hiss convicted of "losing China." Eleven
leaders of the Communist Party convicted of "conspiracy to teach and
advocate the violent overthrow of the United States." A U.S. attack on
North Korea. And, to top it off, the successful test of an atomic weapon
by the Soviet Union. As one contemporary writer put it, "It was a tough
time to be an accused spy, especially one accused of spying for the
Soviet
Union."


Read full story at http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/3589/1/167/


Protesters denounce Bush Medicare plan
By Fred Gaboury

CHICAGO - A spirited crowd of several hundred people braved the early
morning chill June 11, to protest as President Bush arrived here to push
what they charge is a phony Medicare prescription drug plan.

Read full story at http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/3585/1/167/



Conyers and ACLU slam new Ashcroft power grab
By Tim Wheeler

WASHINGTON - Civil liberties activists, led by Rep. John Conyers
(D-Mich.)
and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), denounced Attorney
General
John Ashcroft's demand that Congress grant him wider police-state powers
by passing the so-called "Patriot Act II."

Read full story at http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/3587/1/167/


Lozano tribute honors legacy of struggle
By John Bachtell

CHICAGO - "There are really no great people. But there are ordinary
people
who courageously respond to great challenges," said Carlos Arango,
executive director of Casa Aztlan. Arango was reflecting on the life and
legacy of Rudy Lozano at a June 7 gathering to mark the 20th anniversary
of his assassination in 1983.

Read full story at http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/3588/1/167/



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