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Citgo donates $400,000 to Chicago school clinic

November 10, 2006

CHICAGO — Citgo Petroleum Corp., the U.S.-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s publicly owned oil company, announced Nov. 2 it was giving $400,000 to help kick-start a new health clinic at Little Village Lawndale High School on the...

Mission accomplished: Labor kicks ass

November 10, 2006

Labor’s challenge in this election was to provide the organizing to transform the workers’ frustration and anger into political power, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said at a post-election press conference Nov. 8. It was not only...

Voters clean house: Rejecting Bush agenda, Americans look for new direction

November 10, 2006

WASHINGTON — Fired by anger and disgust with George W. Bush, the Iraq war, corporate greed, corruption and human needs cutbacks, voters went to the polls Nov. 7 and terminated 12 years of Republican control of...

Louise Parry, working-class robin

November 3, 2006

When Louise Parry died suddenly last June 29 at the age of 85, she left unfinished reading on her bedside table: David McCullough’s “John Adams,” Frances L. Broderick’s study of the great W.E.B. Du Bois, Eric...

Oklahoma dreams and nightmares, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

November 3, 2006

BOOKREVIEWThe Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town By John Grisham Doubleday, 2006 Hardcover, 368 pp., $28.95 Ada isn’t just the three-letter answer to the crossword puzzle clue “town in Oklahoma.” It isn’t just...