Chicago youth demand jobs
CHICAGO - "Jobs now" echoed across a frozen Federal Plaza as hundreds of youth demanded passage of federal youth jobs legislation and voiced their anger over being left out of the legislative process.
ESPN honors Daily Worker sports editor Lester Rodney
Lester Rodney was a crusader for equality and instrumental in integrating baseball as sports editor with the Daily Worker in the 1930s, says ESPN in a recent video on its website.
Dying for health care, suburbanites sit in to "get it done!"
WILLOWBROOK, Ill. - Sixty-eight Americans die prematurely every day because they can't get access to health care coverage.
CPUSA in the 1960s: an interview with Jarvis Tyner
Jarvis Tyner is the executive vice chair of the Communist Party USA and the chair of the party's African American Equality Commission. He joined the CPUSA in the early sixties, just as the Civil Rights Movement was maturing.
Green - a different kind of Texas tea
SAN ANTONIO--When far-right Tea Party radicals held their meeting here on Sunday, February 21, Texas progressives were ready for them.
Residents sit-in for health care at congressional office
Video: Residents sit-in at Rep. Judy Biggert's suburban office, demanding health care now!
Against the odds, independent politics advance in Illinois election
CHICAGO -- Voters in the Feb. 2 Illinois primary election seemed to send a message to politicians: We're fed up with corruption; we want solutions.
Teens testify ‘We want jobs’
CHICAGO, Ill.— According to 18-year-old African American Gabrielle Banks, having a job as a young person these days, is more than just an opportunity to gain experience in the workforce or build skills. A job is critical, right now, because it helps provide for the basic necessities at home, she said.
In Obama’s hometown, people still believe
CHICAGO—It's just another cold day in the Windy City. People are going to work and school, picking up groceries, or putting in their application for help to pay their heating bill.
Message to banks: ‘Time to bail us out’
Sick of profiteering, foreclosures and joblessness, thousands tell banks 'Enough is enough'
