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Peoples candidate sworn in as deputy mayor

October 3, 2002

NEWARK, N.J. – Ras Baraka, former people’s candidate for Councilman at Large here, was sworn in Sept. 27 as one of the city’s four Deputy Mayors. Jeannette Ramos, Ronald R. Rice and Evelyn Williams were the...

Lem Harris, farm labor writer, dies at 98

September 27, 2002 By John Pappademos And Evelina Alarcon

Lem Harris, a lifelong defender of family farmers and the rural working class, died Sept. 21. He was 98 years old. He was a member of the Executive Board of the Connecticut Communist Party, and was...

Give now to keep PWW/Mundo rolling

September 27, 2002

Dear friend, As a reader of the People’s Weekly World and Nuestro Mundo, you, like tens of thousands of ordinary, decent people throughout our country, are taking heart that for the first time since the Sept....

Bush axes kids health plan

September 27, 2002 By Phil E. Benjamin

The Bush administration is poised to launch an attack on children’s health care. Crying the blues of “fiscal prudence,” the president is withdrawing one-fourth of the federal financing of children’s health insurance coverage, exposing millions of...

Dockers protest increased work loads

September 27, 2002

OAKLAND, Calif. – As part of a mounting campaign to pressure employers to begin bargaining seriously about maintaining union jurisdiction over new technology jobs on the waterfront, hundreds of members of the International Longshore and Warehouse...