The Political Science Students’ Associations (PSSA) will be showing “The Grapes of Wrath” this Thursday evening at 7:00pm in Tilley 28 on the UNB campus. Coffee and snacks will be provided. Donations are also welcome!

Thousands of miners strike for pay increase; Management threaten to nurse lockout; Power workers oppose privatisation; Indian textile workers strike over bonus; Pakistani health employees protest over jobs; Female golf caddies win reinstatement; Bank workers demand improved wages and conditions; New Zealand bank staff strike over pay; New Zealand mine workers hold national strike; Auckland bus drivers continue action; Teachers to strike over non-payment of salaries; Fiji garment factory closures throw thousands out of work.

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – New CCPA report makes the case against more corporate tax cuts
–If anyone is looking for sound economic reasons to reject the proposed corporate tax cuts then have a look at this report from Policy Alternatives.

Independent Media Center | www.indymedia.org | ((( i ))) MayDay
–MayDay is approaching.

CBC Ottawa – Flags half-mast for fallen workers
–Yesterday was the Day of Mourning for Fallen workers. Coming up is Mayday… a day of solidarity with workers.

ZNet |Labor | ‘Alternative’ Media Quietly Sells Out to Whole Foods Market
–Bullying the media over union voices. This is the reason that independent media needs to exist.

rabble columns: Does television turn you off? by Rick Salutin
–An article about the terrible stuff on TV and why it is shoved on us with an unrelenting zeal by the press. The same companies that own the news own the TV stations is the short answer from me… this is fitting since Bush’s address to the US was cut short for the “Simple Life”.

rabble.ca – in his own words: Is there still a dream?
–The answer is yes there is a dream but it does not exist within the minds of the heads of state. They are too busy trying to open up markets and feed the machine.

rabble news – A new election demands a new analogy: by Scott Piatkowski
–A look at what a new election will bring. The Conservatives are going to send us to the polls… all I can say is that the people should vote NDP if they are upset at the Liberals… not Conservative.

RIGHTS-U.S.: One Year Later, Abu Ghraib Scandal Seen as ‘Tip of Iceberg’
–Torture still not being dealt with in the US.

News: Flat tax revolution sweeps in from Eastern Europe
–Remember that Economist Mag story that I linked about flat tax? Well there are some people that obviously really think that it is a good idea in Europe. Take a read of this. Here is the story from the Economist. Flat taxes are a really bad idea for the general public… they are a dream from capitalists.

News: Blair’s spectacular U-turn on legal advice leaves unanswered questions
–The Independent takes a look at the revealed documents that Blair had going into the war. Once again the press is lead down the wrong way. The question here is : Is the war illegal? Not did the government think up some wacky ways to say that it wasn’t!

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Global warming rate discovered
–This is not really science but I thought it was interesting. The scientists in Science Mag have discovered the “real” rate of warming of the earth. The point here is that the world is really warming and that the earth is doomed unless we do something to change the way we are consuming the resources on this planet.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Incoming cloud forces Bush into safe bunker
–Yes the super high tech US defence department mistook a cloud for an attack on the US. Don’t you feel safe with the same system protecting them from enemy missiles? It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US soldier to be executed
–What do you expect to happen when you train people to be killers?

3 networks cut off President Bush before end of his news conference
–And they wonder why the US is in such a bad state?

CBC News: Election would doom Atlantic Accord: NDP
–Say goodbye to all those Liberal promises (not as if they were going to keep them anyway). If there is an election all the negotiation that have happened over the last year are pretty much non-existent.

Economic Freedom: Democratizing Work In The 21st Century
–We need democracy in the workplace. The only way we are going to get it is to change the system.

Mr. Harper Friend of the Working Man
–The title is a joke… just incase you were wondering. This article goes into a little detail over Harper and how the above statement is laughable beyond reason.

Media Advisory: Workers Day of Mourning
–It is international Day of Mourning for those workers who have lost their lives at work. Collective bargaining is the only way for the workers to bring their concerns to the forefront.

Wage cuts and contracting out of health support jobs harming workers and health care system: reports
–Policy Alternatives takes a look at BC Healthcare. BC is in a bad way thanks to freemarket forces acting on the Healthcare system.

Harper: the Grim Reaper of Canadian politics
–Many names come to mind when Harper is mentioned. I can tell you that none of them are good. It is a shame that the media is so blindly reporting what is going on in the Canadian political system right now. We need more analysis of what the parties are promising and saying. Longterm predictions of the different outcomes.