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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
March 02, 2007‘Worker Squeezinart’ Employees of the Albertsons supermarket chain in Los Angeles dramatized their struggles Feb. 22 with street theater. The skits featured “Fatcat Albertson” showing off his “Amazing Profit Machine” churning out money at the expense of workers. Attention-grabbing visuals included giant signs, costumes and a “Worker Squeezinart.” Tens of thousands of LA grocery workers struggle to make ends meet as company profits soar. In 2005 Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons/Pavilions,...
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LETTERS
February 23, 2007We want to hear from you! By e-mail: pww @ pww.org Subject: Letter to Editor Or by mail: People’s Weekly World Letter to Editor 3339 S. Halsted St. Chicago IL 60608 Letters should be limited to 200 words. We reserve the right to edit stories and letters. Only signed letters with the return address of the sender will be considered for publication, but the name of the sender will be...
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A mighty call for peace and justice
February 16, 2007“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.” President Theodore RooseveltIf you want to see America at its best, come to a demonstration against the Iraq war. Hundreds of thousands from across the United States flew, drove and rode to the nation’s capital, Jan. 27-29, to demand action to end the Iraq war and prevent President Bush...
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We voted for peace Marchers tell Congress to end Iraq war
February 02, 2007WASHINGTON — More than 1,000 antiwar lobbyists from 48 states visited hundreds of lawmakers’ offices on Monday, Jan. 29, to urge them to pass a Senate resolution opposing the Iraq war and to use the “power of the purse strings” to terminate the deadly four-year conflict. The grassroots lobby came on the final day of a three-day mobilization sponsored by United for Peace and Justice that brought half a million...
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Worlds biggest hog boss meets its match: Smithfield workers take on global Goliath
January 26, 2007Jim Adams started at Smithfield Packing on the hog kill floor assembly line. He was hurt on his first day, and by the time his second shift ended he knew he’d better keep his mouth shut and try to ignore the pain if he wanted to keep his job. During his first few months he kept getting hurt, until after eight months he tore the cartilage in his right knee,...
Read moreThe fight pays off Justice vs. Wal-Mart
January 19, 2007Workers’ Correspondence Union busting has become so important to Wal-Mart, the nation’s biggest corporate fat cat, that it is offering to pay clerks and cashiers who sign up to work at its new “superstore” in Riverdale, N.J., $2 an hour more than the starting rate at the surrounding unionized stores. Those who get the jobs, however, will have no comparable health benefits and no job protection and will face wage...
Read moreTo clone or not
December 07, 2001Despite pressure from President Bush to ban human cloning, either for reproduction or research, the Senate refused last week to take up a Republican measure to impose a six-month moratorium on the technology. The bill was pushed to the Senate floor after an announcement last week by Dr. Michael West, of the Advanced Cell Technology Institute of Worcester, Mass., that his biotechnology firm had created the first cloned human embryos....
Read moreGlobalization and India
November 17, 2001Despite the enthusiasm of its supporters economic globalization gives rise to fierce exploitation, economic instability and crisis. The “globalization” touted by the major economic gurus has created problems around the world, including AIDs, poverty, hunger, debt, labor migration (people having to flee their own countries), global warming and increased national and racial oppression. Today’s global economy, much more than an arena of free exchange of resources, is one of coercion...
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