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Mexican steelworkers occupy complex

January 19, 2002 By Paul S. Kaczocha

On Dec. 20, over 2,000 iron ore miners occupied the Sicartsa plant and three other neighboring steel plants in the huge steel complex located at Lázaro Cárdenas-Las Trujas, in the Mexican state of Michoacán. ISPAT Mexicana,...

U.S. blockade abuses Cuban children

January 19, 2002

Military might and patriotic display are now in charge, ever since Sept. 11. Yet reminders surface of U.S. misbehavior over many years in the name of anti-communism and defending U.S. interests. Here the plight of Cuba’s...

Letters

January 18, 2002

2002: A year of challenges Happy new year and thank you for the New Year’s greeting by Sam Webb (12/29/01). We do, indeed, face challenges in the coming year, challenges possibly greater than any before. The...

Editorials

January 18, 2002

Election battles forming Battle lines are already shaping up in the crucial 2002 elections, in which all 435 House seats and one-third of the Senate seats will be up for grabs. President Bush and the Republican...

The Chicago Freedom Movement: Summer 1966

January 18, 2002 By Carolyn Black, Bill Appelhans And Fred Gaboury

The impact of the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement on the decade’s civil rights struggles was as significant as any other campaign of that era. To visit The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change,...