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Ten dead, a hundred injured in bloodstained Chicago field
May25
They were on strike but the strike was just a week old so people were not yet in the direst of straights.
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NATO protest reflections: Winning tactics vs. dead ends
May24
One by one, they threw their medals toward the generals and statesmen behind the high barricades surrounding the NATO Summit in Chicago.
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Latina moms in Chicago: “We’re done crying!”
May23
Except for one grandmother, the rest of the 20 or so women who patrol the streets around Davis Elementary School here every weekday are in their 20s and 30s.
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Iraq and Afghanistan veterans return medals at NATO protest
May22
U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars threw their medals towards the site of the NATO Summit May 20 in what was called the most dramatic antiwar action by ex-GIs since Vietnam.
Wrong turn could kill economic recovery
A top international economic group says the recovery could reverse into a new recession due to misguided, wrong economic policies.
Pay your share! Community members crash Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Who would have guessed the Mercantile Exchange needed help from Illinois taxpayers?
Thousands protest Philly school closings, layoffs
Responding to a call by SEIU, more than a thousand people marched through downtown and rallied in front of the School Reform Commission offices.
Mariela Castro in San Francisco: Cuba moving toward LGBT equality
Mariela Castro Espin told a standing-room-only crowd of the progress Cuba has made toward equal rights for its LGBT community.
Try telling John Carlos that sports and politics don’t mix
Star sports editor talks to the 1968 Olympian about his iconic protest, a lifetime of struggle and why athletes are reluctant to make a stand.
A tribute to Philip Levine, poet laureate of workers
Philip Levine has just completed his year-long term as the U.S. poet laureate.












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