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

U.S.

Honor voting rights martyrs with deeds
March 4, 2005 By Tim Wheeler
Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. The names of the three civil rights martyrs still ring like a bell four decades after they disappeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi, June 21, 1964. Their deaths, together with the violence inflicted...
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40 years after Selma’s Bloody Sunday
January 14, 2005 By Tim Wheeler
The struggle for voting rights continues Reps. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio), John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) defended the legacy of martyrs who died for voting rights when they blocked, for a few hours,...
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Pete Seeger: Standing Tall at 85
December 17, 2004 By Tim Wheeler
'Seeger understood early the power of song as a force for social change.' Pete Seeger turned 85 last May 3 and could be forgiven if he hung up his five-string banjo and relaxed with his wife...
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News

Iraq Veterans Against the War founded
July 31, 2004 By Tim Wheeler

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Labor

Fred Gaboury, dean of labor writers, 78
February 12, 2004 By Tim Wheeler

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Peace

As Iraq death toll rises, so do war profits
December 19, 2003 By Tim Wheeler

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Opinion

We Charge Genocide: The cry rings true 52 years later
February 21, 2003 By Tim Wheeler
Paul Robeson and William L. Patterson, two giants of the struggle for African-American equality, delivered to the United Nations a petition titled “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People.”
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Other

Poison gas: Made in U.S.A
August 23, 2002 By Tim Wheeler
As George W. Bush’s administration continues their reckless path towards war with Iraq, splits are occurring in the ruling class as world and national opposition grows.
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