Joelle Fishman
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joelle Fishman
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U.S.
Music to get out the vote – pass it along!
October 26, 2010Jay Z's performances on the campaign trail with Barack Obama encouraged thousands of young people to vote for the first time in 2008. Now he and others are trying to do it again.
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Labor
For Connecticut voters a stark choice
October 21, 2010The fight is on in this state, but an intensive campaign by union members knocking on the doors of their co-workers' homes to talk about the elections is breaking through the right-wing noise.
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Labor
School custodians march against privatization
October 8, 2010Over 200 municipal workers marched and rallied at City Hall Tuesday to protest proposed privatization of school custodial services.
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Labor
Labor pulling out the vote in key state
September 20, 2010Union members hit the ground running to get their co-workers out to vote this November in Connecticut, one of 21 battleground states designated by the AFL-CIO.
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Labor
Union delegates resolve to build record voter turnout
August 23, 2010HARTFORD, Conn. -- Union activists pledge to knock on 36,000 doors before Election Day in this battleground state.
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U.S.
Hiroshima Day vigil calls for nuclear abolition
August 10, 2010Marking the 65th year since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, vigils were held on the New Haven Green at time the bombs were dropped on August 6 and 9.
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U.S.
Social Security’s 75th birthday spurs “Hands off” campaign
August 4, 2010NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The hot summer is heating up even more as the fight to preserve and extend Social Security becomes a front-burner issue in the 2010 elections.
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Labor
Caravan brings aid to striking workers
July 30, 2010NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Elected officials, union members and community supporters piled into a school bus and seven cars last Saturday, July 24, for a 10 mile solidarity caravan in support of nursing home workers on...
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