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Metal musicians talk community, politics, LGBT equality
September 24, 2012With the critical 2012 presidential election coming up, metal music is getting political.
Read morePoem of the week: Pat Mora’s “Legal Alien”
October 25, 2010This poem, "Legal Alien," captures an important quality of our evolving and emerging multi-national, multi racial and multi-ethnic culture.
Read moreRekindling socialism with Eugene V. Debs
April 12, 2008BOOK REVIEW The Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle Edited by William A. Pelz Institute of Working Class History, 2008 $17.50, paperback, 205 pp Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926), one of America’s most famous...
Read moreRekindling socialism with Eugene V. Debs
April 5, 2008Title: The Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle Publisher: Institute of Working Class History, 2008, 205 pages Author: Edited by William A. Pelz, Introduction by Howard Zinn Correction: An earlier version of this...
Read moreMexican museum honors Day of the Dead
November 2, 2007At the museum, one ofrenda on display was dedicated to the memory of 32 Chicago Public School students who died, mostly to gun violence, during the 2006-2007 school year.
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