News
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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Katrina and voting rights
February 24, 2006New Orleans boosters are throwing Mardi Gras celebrations that end on Fat Tuesday, Feb. 28. But there is plenty the people of the “Big Easy” are not celebrating, starting with the criminal negligence of the Bush-Cheney...
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