John Wojcik
LATEST ARTICLES BY John Wojcik
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Alton Sterling, Black father of five, killed for selling CDs
July 7, 2016Alton Sterling, 37, joins the seemingly endless list of Black people slain by cops and mourned by their neighbors, families and friends.
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“People’s Summit” maps plans to continue Bernie’s “political revolution”
June 19, 2016More than 3,000 progressive and community leaders and activists who backed Sanders in the primaries gathered here this weekend at the Peoples Summit.
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Orlando: A hate crime against the gay community
June 13, 2016This worst-ever mass shooting in American history was first and foremost a homophobic crime of hate against the nation's LGBTQIA community.
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The Champ’s greatest battle: The fight for peace
June 6, 2016I would like to take this opportunity to put in a word for what I think was Muhammad Ali's greatest fight of all - his relentless fight for peace.
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“Lynching” conviction of Black Lives Matter leader seen as crushing dissent
June 2, 2016A young African American political activist is trembling today at the thought of having to face as many as four years in prison.
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Thousands out on the picket lines at Chicago schools today
April 1, 2016Teachers picketed outside all of the public schools in Chicago's Hyde Park section this morning.
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Teachers lead wave of strikes and job actions in Chicago
March 31, 2016April 1 is likely to go down in history as unions and community organizations representing people from all walks of life stage strikes and actions from one end of the city to the other.
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Unions spared, for now, in split Supreme Court Friedrichs ruling
March 29, 2016Today, the Supreme Court, by way of an equally divided ruling, ended the fiercest legal attack on the labor movement in decades.
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