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WASHINGTON (PAI) — It was a year that started with such high hopes for workers and their unions — and ended in roadblocks and looming disappointment. For unions, 2009, even with the Great Recession underway, began well. A p...
Hello friends in the struggle to free the Cuban Five, Five valiant, principled partisans of justice languish in U.S. prisons. The persecution which put the Cuban Five in prison eleven years ago, and has kept them there, violates all notions of human rights. The refusal of the U.S...
Two leftist South American presidents are under the gun. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez faces off against Colombia with which his country shares a 1,380 mile border. And domestic conspiracies threaten President Fernando Lugo of Paraguay. Each president is also up against U.S...
CHICAGO - Stroger Hospital, is the largest public hospital in Cook County and one of the largest in the country. If there is a place where the nation's horrific health care crisis can be seen this is it...
Ibrahim Yazdi, the leader of the nationalist Iran's Freedom Movement and the first Iranian foreign minister after the 1979 revolution, was arrested early Dec. 28...
The death of reformist cleric Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri on Dec. 19 has sparked a run of protests in Iran which have both caught the authorities off guard and surprised the opposition by their scale. Official reports suggest that the turnout at Montazeri's funeral on Dec...
Even as the U.S. Senate was preparing to pass its version of health care reform, the national coalition Health Care for America Now (HCAN) launched an intensive campaign calling for public option and other measures in the final bill that will be sent back to the House and Senate in the new year....
After coping with over $60 billion in budget shortfalls this year, California will face a new nearly $21 billion budget gap in 2010. Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to propose draconian new budget cuts in a message set for Jan. 8...
There he was on Christmas Eve on the TV news: Arizona Senator John Kyl, pumped with anger, calling the just passed Senate health care reform bill "a massive, very bad assault on liberty." You got to ask, whose liberty is he so concerned about...
Peoples World Lester Rodney told the 2006 People's World banquet in N. Calif.: you change baseball, you change the country!
Lester Rodney, Early Voice in Fight Againt Racism in Baseball, Dies at 98 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTime
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A Dodger fan who grew up in Brooklyn, Mr. Rodney was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party and the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Peoples World Lester Rodney, a unique American, sports writer for our predecessor Daily Worker
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... ways they could improve their sports stuff.” This led to a meeting where Rodney told an editor that “they needed a change in attitude.” ... just were not good enough. Silber really lets Lester Rodney speak for himself with Q&A interviews, so that we really ...
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By a vote of 31 to 24 with nine abstentions, the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District, the jurisdiction to which Mexico City belongs, has passed legislation authorizing gay marriage...
NEW YORK - Who said you can't beat City Hall...
Christmas time can be so depressing. It brings out some of the worst features of capitalism and rubs them in our faces. You can't escape, whatever your philosophical or religious belief...
