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Student week of action promotes Employee Free Choice nationwide

April 8, 2009 By Seth Michaels

This past week, students across the country mobilized to pass the Employee Free Choice Act in the Student Labor Action Project’s annual Student Labor Week of Action.

Shoe-repairman, veteran, bobbin boy, Communist: 93 years with a twinkle in his eye

April 8, 2009 By Susan Webb

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — John Hovan has been reading this newspaper, and its predecessors going back to the Daily Worker, since the early 1930s — in the depths of the Great Depression. It’s been a key to...

‘West Wing’ stars lobby for Employee Free Choice Act

April 8, 2009

WASHINGTON -- (PAI) In their long run on the nation’s television screens, Martin Sheen, Brad Whitford and Richard Schiff were always in the “West Wing,” but never on Capitol Hill -- until now. But on March...

Slash Afghan casualties, boost civilian aid, aid agencies say

April 8, 2009

President Barack Obama came away from NATO’s 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg, France earlier this month with commitments from several European NATO members to send a total of 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan. The new European...

Peace groups hail Obamas vow to abolish nukes

April 8, 2009

Leaders of the struggle for nuclear disarmament hailed President Obama’s speech April 5 in Prague, committing the United States to work for the total abolition of nuclear weapons, the first American president ever to make that...