Tim Wheeler

Tim Wheeler has written over 10,000 news reports, exposés, op-eds, and commentaries in his half-century as a journalist for the Worker, Daily World, and People’s World. Tim also served as editor of the People’s Weekly World newspaper. His book News for the 99% is a selection of his writings over the last 50 years representing a history of the nation and the world from a working-class point of view. After residing in Baltimore for many years, Tim now lives in Sequim, Wash.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler

Opinion

Mother Courage of Clallam County remembered
June 23, 2014 By Tim Wheeler
She stood her ground. She never left Daddy's side. She did not flinch. She was Mother Courage.
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Labor

Remembering “Hy Climber” Fred Gaboury
May 30, 2014 By Tim Wheeler
One day in 1953 Fred Gaboury invited me to come to work with him so I could witness first hand his skill in rigging a spar tree high in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains. I...
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U.S.

Great grandfather who helped end slavery and save a nation remembered
May 7, 2014 By Tim Wheeler
An unpublished manuscript "The Diary of Francis Marion Wheeler 1842-1899" has been gathering dust on a bookshelf in our house for many years. Once I picked it up, I could not put it down.
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U.S.

GOP-Ryan budget slashes Medicare, college aid and stirs voter anger
April 29, 2014 By Tim Wheeler
It would slash non-defense spending in the coming decade by $5 trillion, cutting to the bone every vital human needs program while increasing Pentagon spending by $500 billion.
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Opinion

Starkovich loved unions, children, flowers….despised redbaiters, unionbusters!
March 14, 2014 By Tim Wheeler
Nearly 200 people gathered at the Urban Horticulture Center to honor George Tony Starkovich for his lifelong work as a union organizer, an activist for jobs, peace, and equality. Starkovich died February 26 at age 91.
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Labor

Undaunted by rain, Tacoma marchers demand “$15 now!”
March 12, 2014 By Tim Wheeler
It was International Women's Day, Mar. 8, and nearly 100 women and men marched in a steady downpour here to demand an increase in the minimumwage to $15 an hour.
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U.S.

Black Panther Eddie Conway, free after 44 years, calls for release of all political prisoners
March 11, 2014 By Tim Wheeler
Marshall Eddie Conway charged that many, like himself, were victims of frame-ups orchestrated under the infamous FBI Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO).
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Opinion

Labor stalwart Lonnie Nelson dies at 83
February 14, 2014 By Tim Wheeler
She was 83 years old and was active in the people's movements and in her Communist Party club until stricken by a stroke a few days before her death, Feb. 12.
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