News – Page 5527 – People's World

Chicagos banquet a success

November 1, 2002

CHICAGO – Honoring legendary fighters for social justice, the annual Illinois People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo banquet raised $6,100 for the 2002 Fund Drive here Oct. 20. William McNary, president of USAction and veteran of countless successful...

Letters

November 1, 2002

War is ... The quote Ed Campbell is looking for (10/26) is from Marine Commander-Gen. Smedley Butler and was published in The New York Times, Aug. 21, 1931, as well as in the magazine, The World...

Editorials

November 1, 2002

Stop the vote thieves before they steal “If you can’t win it, steal it.” That should be the slogan of the Republicans in the 2002 election as it was in the 2000 election. Attorney General John...

Lou Bortz

October 31, 2002

CLEVELAND – Longtime Communist Party activist Lou Bortz died here Aug. 16. He was 92 years old. Bortz was one of 10 children of an immigrant shoemaker from Czarist Lithuania. He finished ninth grade in New...

James Herndon,1925-2002

October 31, 2002

James Herndon, progressive attorney and lifelong social activist, died Sept. 17. He was 77 years old. Jim, as he was known to his friends and family, was a man of keen intellect and deep commitment to...