Ben Sears
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ben Sears
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Labor
Union marchers tell American Airlines: “Healthcare is a human right!”
October 28, 2019The chants resonated across busy lanes of rush hour traffic as a dense, boisterous crowd of American Airlines workers and supporters rallied to call for quality affordable healthcare.
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U.S.
Philly labor hosts first ever “Workers’ Presidential Summit”
September 24, 2019Last spring Pat Eiding, President of the Philadelphia AFL-CIO Council, urged his members to start getting ready for the 2020 Presidential campaign.
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World
Veteran Communist activist Rita “Rookie” Perna wins prestigious Mandela Award
September 25, 2018Previous recipients have included Native American activist and political prisoner Leonard Peltier, the Cuban Five, and Philadelphia health care activist Sylvia Metzler.
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U.S.
Philadelphia announces plans to cancel contract with ICE
August 8, 2018Immigrant rights activists have long argued, and the mayor confirmed, that ICE has been using info from an arrest database to target immigrants.
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Labor
Philadelphia area labor: ‘Janus won’t stop us!’
June 28, 2018“Our power is in the workers' movement,” said Dan Symonds, a teacher and rank-and-file member of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers.
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Labor
Big rally in Philly against Janus attack on union organizing rights
February 26, 2018A dense crowd of workers and their allies loudly proclaimed their support for union organizing rights.
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Letters to the Editor
Considering the Soviet experience: Thoughts from an American
December 6, 2017Were “crimes” committed? We are regularly reminded that the answer is “yes, certainly.” But if that is all we learn, we risk losing other valuable parts of the last century’s record.
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Culture
Lessons not learned: The Vietnamese experience in the Vietnam War
September 19, 2017American authors have primarily viewed the war as part of the Cold War chess game, largely neglecting the experience of the Vietnamese people.
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