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Labor mourns 9/11 dead, fights for the living
September 14, 2007NEW YORK — The city’s labor movement gathered near Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, Sept. 8, in a combined Sept. 11, 2001, commemoration, Labor Day tribute and call for federal legislation to ensure health care for...
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Chrysler workers walk as deadline nears
September 13, 2007Three hundred workers represented by the United Auto Workers union walked off the job in Auburn Hills, Mich., Sept. 12, as the People’s Weekly World went to press. The workers who walked out are employed at...
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James E. Jackson dies
September 7, 2007The staff of the People’s Weekly World was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Dr. James E. Jackson last weekend in New York. Jackson was editor of our predecessor paper, The Worker, during the...
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Film salutes Peggy Lipschutz
September 7, 2007“Never Turning Back: The World of Peggy Lipschutz” is a film about 88-year-old artist and political activist Peggy Lipschutz of Evanston, Ill. Lipschutz and her “chalk talks,” sometimes called “Songs You Can See,” have been part...
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Unions not welcome in Kid Nation
September 7, 2007While it’s true that many parents would like to see their children become a bit more enthusiastic about household chores, they probably wouldn’t want to see them in the kind of world depicted in “Kid Nation,”...
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