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  • The extraordinary life of Marvel Cooke

    The extraordinary life of Marvel Cooke

    February 25, 2009

    Women’s History Month fittingly opens with International Women’s Day, March 8. On March 8, 1908, 15,000 women workers marched through New York’s Lower East Side demanding shorter hours, better pay, a needle trades union, and the...

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  • Stimulus package to help workers keep health care coverage

    Stimulus package to help workers keep health care coverage

    February 25, 2009

    Two important health care measures that were included in President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package will begin to be implemented this week and will ensure that millions of working families impacted by the recession are able...

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  • Closing Guantanamo: many questions remain

    Closing Guantanamo: many questions remain

    February 25, 2009

    Two days after taking office, President Barack Obama announced that the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would be closed by the end of this year at the latest. This step, which was acclaimed worldwide, is...

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  • Workers Correspondence: Making it all the way for employee free choice

    Workers Correspondence: Making it all the way for employee free choice

    February 25, 2009

    LOS ANGELES -- I started the march a little late that day. Me and two friends of mine, Hector and Juoaquin, began our March to catch up from our local office on Virgil where we parked...

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  • Celebrating Black history and Obamas roots

    Celebrating Black history and Obamas roots

    February 25, 2009

    CHICAGO –To celebrate African American history month, the People’s Weekly World and Workers Education Society hosted a distinguished panel over a delicious meal of the city’s finest soul food. Historian Dr. Timuel Black, civil rights, HIV/AIDS...

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