Tim Wheeler
LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler
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Labor
Liz Yates, 90, helped organize Seattle teachers
November 4, 2015Elizabeth Yates who helped unionize her fellow Seattle school teachers and remained a lifelong progressive activist.
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Labor
Seattle teachers suspend strike, vote Sept. 20 on contract
September 18, 2015The 5,000 teachers in Seattle's public schools suspended their six-day strike amid strong displays of solidarity on their picketlines.
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Environment
Navy jets, electronic warfare stir outrage
September 18, 2015The noise and electronic radiation pose a dire threat to animals and plants in the wilderness regions of the Olympic Peninsula.
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Labor
Seattle teacher’s strike solid on day four
September 11, 2015Five thousand Seattle school teachers spent the day honoring those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
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U.S.
Bernie Sanders rallies in Northwest draw record crowds
August 10, 2015Sanders appealed for unity, and declared that having good jobs, racial, and gender equality, health care, and higher education for all "is not utopian dreaming."
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U.S.
Brave activists who broke into FBI office in ’71 remembered
July 24, 2015I was the Washington correspondent of the Daily World and received a packet in the mail of top secret FBI documents exposing the surveillance of tens of thousands of law-abiding people.
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U.S.
Three in a row: SCOTUS upholds marriage equality, Obamacare, Fair Housing Act
June 26, 2015"These decisions show how much is at stake in our nation's highest court and how critical it is that Americans consider the Supreme Court as we choose our next president."
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Opinion
Time to unite against racist terror
June 19, 2015"In the spring of '69, Daily World editors asked me to travel down to Charleston, S.C. to cover a strike by Hospital workers, Local 1199."
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