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  • Keep pressing Congress for ceasefire in Gaza, groups say

    Keep pressing Congress for ceasefire in Gaza, groups say

    January 17, 2009

    American groups calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza say phone calls flooding Congress on the issue are having an impact. They urge the public to continue to press for stepped up U.S. involvement to achieve...

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  • A first-class paper

    A first-class paper

    January 17, 2009 By Dan Margolis

    For more than 80 years, the People’s Weekly World and its predecessors, including the Daily Worker and the Daily World, have been delivering first-class coverage of news important to working people but ignored by the corporate...

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  • A peoples inauguration

    A peoples inauguration

    January 16, 2009

    Four million expected for Obama swearing-in, parade WASHINGTON—Unprecedented. That’s what people are saying about the “people’s inauguration” of Barack Obama. As many as 4 million people are expected to pack the nation’s capital Jan. 20 to...

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  • Detroit rally backs Obama economic recovery program

    Detroit rally backs Obama economic recovery program

    January 16, 2009 By John Rummel

    DETROIT — 2009 is beginning as those who voted for change imagined: grassroots groups are turning the hope that blossomed last November into action. In this hard-hit city, organizing is under way to change things from...

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  • Republic workers may get greener jobs

    Republic workers may get greener jobs

    January 15, 2009

    CHICAGO -- A leading company in the green window business, California-based Serious Materials, is in the final stages of working out a purchase agreement of Republic Windows and Doors assets, according to United Electrical Workers Local...

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