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Workers’ groups show candidates that supporting higher wages wins votes

September 12, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg And Larry Rubin

"Voters are fed up with lack of action in Washington on raising wages for working people; letting voters know where the candidates stand on these issues can have a significant impact."

New union leaders emerge at Social Justice Academy

September 12, 2016 By Joelle Fishman

Graduation was emotional for the dozen members of SEIU 32 BJ at the completion of the Social Justice Academy.

From our September 11, 2001 archives: Facing the future from Ground Zero

September 10, 2016 By Judith LeBlanc

On September 11, 2001, only a few members of the then-People's Weekly World staff were in the Manhattan editorial office when the airplanes hit the Twin Towers.

Eyewitness accounts of Temer government’s violence against protests

September 9, 2016 By Lucivania Nascimento dos Santos

The smoke and gas bombs were intense, it is very difficult to run and breathe; police target alternative press cars that try to take their equipment into the protests.

Federal government calls a halt to North Dakota Pipeline

September 9, 2016 By Roberta Wood

In a victory the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is calling "a game changer," three Federal agencies blocked the construction of a pipeline at Lake Oahe. N.D.