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1970 Chicano Moratorium marches on
The following is a Los Angeles Times article by reporter Hector Tobar. LOS ANGELES (LA Times) — The year Rosalío Muñoz got his Vietnam War draft notice was also a very good year for American cinema. It was the summer of 1969 and he spent hours in darkened L.A. movie theaters. “I saw ‘Easy Rider,’ […]
- By : Special to People’s World
- July 8, 2010
GOP reeling from Barton’s “shakedown”
WASHINGTON– Rep. Joe Barton, R-Tex, has plunged the Republican Party into turmoil with his blurted apology to the CEO of BP for what he called President Obama’s “shakedown” of the oil giant, securing $20 billion to help victims of the oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. With BP CEO Tony Hayward sitting in the […]
- By : Tim Wheeler
- June 18, 2010
Colombia tops list as most dangerous place for union workers, once again
Every year the International Trade Union Confederation reports on anti-labor union repression worldwide. The news from last year was worse than ever. Its report, released June 9, showed 101 unionists murdered, up 30 percent over 2008. Colombia accounted for almost half of the murder victims — 48. Other countries with large numbers of union members […]
- By : W. T. Whitney, Jr.
- June 15, 2010
Texans join Arizona’s anti-SB 1070 mega-march
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — It was 4 a.m. May 28 when the “Liberation Caravan” left from the Southwest Workers Union hall here in San Antonio to join anti-SB 1070 protesters in Arizona. Most of the “caravanistas” were young people. But there were a few older men and women, including a woman in a wheelchair. Local […]
- By : Vivian Weinstein
- May 29, 2010
Joe Barton — always Big Oil’s man — from the archives
Did you hear that great groaning sound? It was us, the people of Texas, expressing our opinion about the news that Congressman Joe Barton was fixing to investigate somebody. “Joe Barton?” people are asking, “Is he still not in jail? What’s he doing investigating somebody else?” According to Houston reporters, “Smoky Joe” Barton, the pollution […]
- March 10, 2006