Article Listing

  • Whats been going on so far

    Whats been going on so far

    May 8, 2009 By Special to People’s World

    Responses are continuing to come in from supporters during pledge week. A reader in New York responded to the letter and call for monthly pledges and signed up for $25 a month! Thank you. He also...

    Read more
  • Planned Parenthood tells Judy Blume: We are there!

    Planned Parenthood tells Judy Blume: We are there!

    May 8, 2009 By Ivy Kuhne

    Planned Parenthood is mounting a campaign to support young people’s author Judy Blume. Blume has faced a barrage of hate mail and phone calls from anti-reproductive rights extremists after she wrote a letter about Mother’s Day...

    Read more
  • WORLD NOTES

    WORLD NOTES

    May 8, 2009

    Germany: Nuclear withdrawal a campaign issue In the Bundestag April 24, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for “a new beginning on nuclear disarmament.” Three opposition parties, the Greens, Liberal Free Democrats and the Left Party, moved...

    Read more
  • The battle continues over unemployment funds

    The battle continues over unemployment funds

    May 8, 2009

    Original source: Facing South has been covering the ongoing saga of Southern Republican governors vs. the federal stimulus. A handful of GOP rising star governors - including those in Texas, Louisiana, South Carolina and Alabama -...

    Read more
  • Walmarts optimization plan highlights dirty tricks used by companies to lay-off employees

    Walmarts optimization plan highlights dirty tricks used by companies to lay-off employees

    May 8, 2009

    Walmart’s plan to cull an entire layer of management from about 150 stores nationwide may have stalled temporarily but many employees fear the company will simply find another way of removing unwanted staff. In media interviews...

    Read more