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Peekskill remembered

September 5, 2009 By Daniel Frontino Elash

The concert scheduled for Aug. 27, 1949, in Peekskill, N.Y., was supposed to be routine. Though it had been organized by People’s Artists, a brand new spin-off organization of the People’s Songs formation that had launched...

EPA will declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant

September 5, 2009 By Susan Webb

The Environmental Protection Agency is set to declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant, EPA head Lisa Jackson announced on Monday. That action would trigger federal regulation of industrial CO2 sources like coal-fired power plants, cars, refineries...

Time to end obsolete policies on Cuba

September 5, 2009 By Diego Iniguez-Lopez

When President Barack Obama pledged a more diplomatic United States that respects the sovereignty of other nations, I, along with 142 other U.S. citizens and residents took him up on that claim.

Two Labor Day wishes

September 5, 2009 By John Wojcik

If two big things could happen this fall we’d have a shot at re-creating the middle class society workers enjoyed in the past.

Labor-led alliance pressures Wal-Mart for change

September 5, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Unveiling a new "American values agenda" this week, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union launched a new coalition of labor unions, worker advocacy groups, environmental groups, faith-based communities and consumer protection organizations to "hold Wal-Mart...