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Today in black history: Du Bois organized Pan African Congress

February 19, 2013 By Special to People’s World

W.E.B. Du Bois was an early proponent of Pan-Africanism and helped organize several Pan-African Congresses to free African colonies from European powers. The first of those was on Feb. 19,1919.

Filipinos lured into “slavery” in Louisiana

February 19, 2013 By John Wojcik

Sleazy 'recruiters' lured the workers here with assurances of plenty of money, a status job and U.S. citizenship, but when they got here they became indentured servants

Join Days of Action for worker rights in Mexico

February 19, 2013 By US Labor Education in the Americas Project

Actions in the U.S. will vary from protests to delivering letters to Mexican government consulate offices.

New York school bus drivers and matrons end strike

February 19, 2013 By Gabe Falsetta

The NLRB found that Local 1181 had a fair dispute with both the DOE and the bus companies.

The cost of renewed U.S. control in Paraguay

February 19, 2013 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Paraguay interests the U.S. government now because it's close to unruly Bolivia, because of oil deposits, the Guaraní fresh water aquifer, and lawlessness in the tri-border area.