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Wayne Holley, steelworker, CPUSA leader
February 20, 2004Wayne Dallas Holley, steelworker, scholar, activist and lifelong member of the Communist Party USA, passed away on Dec. 30, 2003. He was 93. Holley dedicated his whole life to the struggles of working people in Utah...
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Ishmael Flory, fighter for equality, 96
February 20, 2004Ishmael Flory, veteran trade union organizer, activist in the African American freedom movement, and a longtime leader of the Communist Party in Illinois, died Feb. 4 in Chicago following a long illness. He was 96. Flory...
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Memory & History
February 20, 2004NEW YORK – From 1892 to its official close in 1954, more than 12 million immigrants passed through the gates of New York’s Ellis Island, yearning for freedom and a new life on American shores. The...
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Seniors use films to promote peace
February 20, 2004WALNUT CREEK, Calif. – A recent Peace Film Festival here screened nine movies over four days in a retirement community of 10,000 residents. The setting was the new Peacock Theater at Rossmoor. The Rossmoor chapter of...
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Human suffering a plea for change
February 20, 2004Paul Farmer, a Harvard Medical School teacher, infectious disease expert, and anthropologist, has written his fourth book, “Pathologies of Power.” With grace and feeling, he communicates an obvious commitment to the notion that health care is...
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