News
New unity moves highlight labor meet
March 3, 2006AFL-CIO charts election strategy, forms new partnership with NEA. SAN DIEGO — A rainbow seemed to appear amid the gloomy clouds of disunity hanging over the U.S. labor movement when the National Education Association and the...
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American Indian activist Leonard Peltier seeks new trial
February 24, 2006ST. LOUIS — “It is my obligation to find errors in the government’s case,” Barry Bachrach, a defense lawyer for Leonard Peltier, told the World outside of the Thomas Eagleton Federal Courthouse here Feb. 13, after...
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LIFE AND DEATH
February 24, 2006Teresa Anderson Sanora Babb Al ‘Grandpa’ Lewis Henry Siegel
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Mine safety could use a little more confrontation
February 24, 2006This is a sad time in the mining community, with so many recent tragedies. But it’s not enough to mourn. We also have to act. We need to remember that MSHA is three things. First, it’s...
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LETTERS
February 24, 2006Wrong on Nixzmary Brown As a working-class person who receives public assistance, I was disappointed and offended at Bill Davis’s article “Nixzmary Brown’s tragic death” (PWW 2/11-17). Nobody excuses child abuse or murder. But gone completely...
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