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Cuba honors PWW supporter

December 3, 2004

Wisconsin Peace and Justice Committee Chairman John Gilman was decorated with the Cuban Medal of Friendship, Nov. 12, in Havana. Sergio Corrieri, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and member of...

Letters

November 19, 2004

What goes around… Well, the irritable little man from Connecticut (who pretends to be a Texan) has managed to finagle his way back into the White House. “Thank goodness,” he probably thought, that his oh-so-gracious opponent...

Editorials

November 19, 2004

Giving thanks As we sit down to our turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Day, we should give thanks to the thousands of volunteers who went door to door in a mighty effort to register and get voters...

B.D. Amis, Black Communist and labor leader

November 19, 2004 By Barry D. Amis

While little known today, during the late 1920s and the 1930s, B.D. Amis was one of a small cadre of African Americans leading the fight for workers’ rights and racial justice. Urbane in demeanor and a...

Colombia deports 4 unionists

November 19, 2004

Aidan White, general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, condemned the Colombian government last week for deporting four senior international trade unionists from the international airport in Bogotá in early November. “In a country where...