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Shades of Green: April 12, 2008

Latino, Asian and Palestinian film fests hit Chicago

CHICAGO — Approaching a quarter century, the 24th Chicago Latino Film Festival, sponsored by the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago (ILCCC), is the country’s oldest and largest. The festival premieres 126 films — 50 fictional...

Rekindling socialism with Eugene V. Debs

BOOK REVIEW The Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle Edited by William A. Pelz Institute of Working Class History, 2008 $17.50, paperback, 205 pp Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926), one of America’s most famous...

Story of a plant that closed

Workers’ Correspondence Manufacturing isn’t dead; it’s changing. Small and large shops open and close for more reasons than just market forces. Large conglomerates make decisions based on beliefs and bias I can’t fathom. A small shop...

Legacy of the East L.A. school walkouts

Commemorations last month of the 40th anniversary of the East Los Angeles Chicana/Chicano Walkouts of March 1968 were a celebration of the process and progress of the civil and labor rights struggles of Mexican Americans. Back...