About
	Contact Us
	Articles
	Topic Index
	Reports
	Quotes
	On the Web
	Links
	TW Tracker
	Support

Lizette Alvarez

• November 21 -- Just Your Average Everyday Communists
Lizette Alvarez attempts to mainstream the anti-war protestors who greeted Bush in London: "...a broad cross-section of people turned up for the march, organized by the Stop the War Coalition, which also mobilized a mass protest in February. Grandmothers with canes, parents with children in strollers, high school students, women in business suits, as well as button-bedecked antiwar demonstrators gathered elbow to elbow in Trafalgar Square to voice their disapproval of Mr. Bush and his administration's foreign policies." Alvarez ignored the organizing presence of the far-left Socialist Workers Party.

• October 6 -- Ignoring Gun Control Failure, Here and Abroad
Lizette Alvarez files from Manchester on British police adopting American-style rules of "zero tolerance" to combat the rise in violent- and gun-related crime. But the story leaves out how gun crimes have soared since Britain banned private ownership of handguns.