[Reader-list] V 81

[Rehan Ansari]

This Week's Voices That Must Be Heard
By IPA-New York, a sponsored project of the Independent Press Association 
Edition 81: 3 September 2003. 


NEWS ITEMS:
Workers wanted, for heavy and dirty work by Min-soo Lee, Korea Times New York, 29 August 2003. Translated from Korean by Sun-yong Reinish. 
Korean businesses lack South and Central American labor post 9/11 MORE.

Give (non-citizen) taxpayers the vote? Chinese Americans hold two extreme views by Dan-Wei Luo, World Journal, 28 August 2003. Translated from Chinese by Connie Kong. 
Should people who hold green cards, but not U.S. citizenship, have the right to vote? MORE.

Jewish organizations absent at civil rights rally by Daniel Treiman, Forward, 29 August 2003. English language. 
The event's sole speaker representing a Jewish group was a figure far removed from the leading national Jewish organizations: Rabbi Arthur Waskow, the director of the left-wing, Philadelphia-based Shalom Center. Consistent with the overall tone of the event, Waskow, drawing on a Passover analogy, compared the Bush administration to Pharaoh. MORE.

Cracked heads, many rats, crumbling buildings and empty pockets by Edward Pariyants, V Novom Svete, 28 August 2003. Translated from Russian by Marian Bassett. 
What housing in New York has become for Section Eight residents MORE.

BRIEFS:
Who gets city contracts? by Claudia Zequeira, El Diario / La Prensa, 20 August 2003. Translated from Spanish by Hirsh Sawhney. 

New York City physician joins rights groups in challenging Patriot Act clause by Arthur J. Pais, India Abroad, 29 August 2003. English language. 

Saks decidedly unplush towards workers, says union by Ana Ledo, El Diario / La Prensa, 22 August 2003. Translated from Spanish by Hirsh Sawhney. 

The first Bangladeshi Christian Conference, Bangla Patrika, 23 August 2003. Translated from Bangla by Moinuddin Naser. 

EDITORIALS:
For illegals with love (from Texas) by Anna Salamon, Super Express, 31 July 2003. Translated from Polish by Ania Milewska. 
Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) has proposed a bill which would grant illegal workers in the United States a chance to obtain working visas. MORE.

As always we welcome questions, suggestions, corrections and letters to the editor. 

Rehan Ansari
Editor, Independent Press Association - New York 
nyvoices at indypress.org* 212/279-1442 * 143 West 29th St., 901, New York City, 10001


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