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The economic crisis has brought suffering to every part of the country and every section of the working class. As in past recessions, this crisis has fallen most heavily on communities already suffering, and particularly on people of color and immigrants. |
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(Photo credit: Phil Freedman, courtesy AFL-CIO/Flickr, cc by 2.0)
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Well, we elected an African American president, which is a wonderful thing. It is more than a wonderful thing. It was an historic turning point for this country, given its history, but that doesn’t mean that structural, systemic racism has disappeared. |
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Early in 2008 I received an invitation to attend a regional meeting of Northwest states regarding the issue of health disparities. Where was this meeting held? In Scottsdale, Arizona, of course! Go figure. |
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(Photo by Nicholas DeWolf, courtesy Wikimedia Commons, cc by 3.0)
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Although McCarthyite legislation and official government harassment targeting the Communist Party and its members continued in the 1960s, party leaders and activists contributed to and advanced a new mass upsurge which developed in opposition to the political reaction and social stagnation brought about by domestic and international Cold War policies. |
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Workers circulate a petition in support of the Employee Free Choice Act. (Photo by Casie Yoder, courtesy AFL-CIO Flickr, cc by 2.0)
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During a 1787 debate on the new American political system, Alexander Hamilton expressed his disdain for “the mass of people.” He demanded the political institutions being created under the new Constitution should empower the wealthy minority to keep control of the government in order to avoid the “imprudence of democracy.” |
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Frank Sinatra at his local draft board in 1943. He would be excluded from military service on medical grounds. (Photo by New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.)
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Francis Albert Sinatra was “one of the most chronicled celebrities of modern times ... the focus of oceans of ink and miles of film and video footage.” Indeed, Sinatra may be the most documented entertainer in history. Aside from innumerable biographies, articles, and documentaries, he has been the subject of a scholarly conference and an encyclopedia. |
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Poor Haiti. And why is Haiti so poor? Because right from the beginning, since its conception as a free and independent nation, foreign powers did all they could to place a stone around the neck of the fledgling state. Its inhabitants, born into slavery, were never given a chance, despite the fact that Haiti is the true America. |
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You don't really need the comparative statistics. Travel outside the country, to say Shanghai, Berlin, Tokyo or Copenhagen and it quickly become obvious that, despite all their real problems, others are moving into the 21st Century and we're lagging behind. |
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(Photo by Antonio García Rodríguez, courtesy Flickr)
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Traffic congestion has gotten way out of hand—and not just in developed countries anymore: Traffic jams and smog plague dozens of cities in China and in many other parts of the developing world. Here in the U.S., road congestion now causes commuters to spend an average of a full work week each year sitting in traffic. |
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HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 6 (acn) The first group of US graduates of Havana’s Latin American School of Medicine (LASM) are already in Haiti working at afield hospital in Crois des Bouquet. |
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The Israeli military may be much less effective in winning wars than it was in the past, thanks to the stiffness of Arab resistance. But its military strategists are as shrewd and unpredictable as ever. The recent rhetoric that has escalated from Israel suggests that a future war in Lebanon will most likely target Syria as well. |
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On January 28, 2010, state legislators, and advocates from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Southeast Region, and other groups held a press conference at the State Capitol to introduce a resolution to protect Georgia children from abusive military recruiting. |
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A historic ruling earlier this month on behalf of felons who lost the right to vote could call into question the disenfranchisement of felons and ex-felons in the State of Washington and indeed across the United States. |
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The following is an interview with Communist Party Executive Vice Chair Jarvis Tyner in response to President Obama's January 27th state of the union address. It was conducted Thursday January 28th. |
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A group of Democratic State lawmakers and advocates banded together Tuesday, January 26, 2010, to announce the introduction of legislation to prevent law enforcement officers from engaging in racial profiling. |
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"Don't Mourn, Organize!" This is the growing call form labor and progressive forces following the upset election in Massachusetts of Republican Scott Brown to fill Edward Kennedy's seat in the U.S. Senate. |
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President Obama has been rumored for weeks to be considering appeasements to the budget deficit critics. So he proposes to freeze discretionary spending everywhere but defense and so-called entitlement spending. |
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On January 19, 2010, thirteen Atlanta activists from Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition (GPJC), and Atlanta Grandmothers for Peace stood in silence and turned their backs on US General David Petraeus before being removed from the 1,100-person Ferst Theater on the Georgia Tech campus. |
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