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‘Country needs our help’ — progressives urged to rally around recovery plan

January 29, 2009 By Special to People’s World

WASHINGTON — With more people filing for unemployment than at any time in the past quarter century amid the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the head of a key center for labor and progressive...

House set to vote on economic stimulus package

January 29, 2009 By Joe Sims

With over 75,000 layoffs announced earlier in the week, the House of Representatives is set to vote Wednesday on a $825 billion economic stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, HR 1. The plan is...

Climate change: Obama signals end to era of denial

January 28, 2009 By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (IPS) - Environmental activists have hailed the first moves by U.S. President Barack Obama to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions by setting tough new fuel efficiency and pollution standards for the country's...

Ohio town hall calls for end to raids

January 28, 2009

ASHTABULA, Ohio — Labor, community and religious leaders called for a united effort to end inhuman immigration raids, arrests and deportations at a town hall meeting here. The event, sponsored by the Ohio Coalition for Immigrant...

Alabama Mardi Gras in black and white

January 25, 2009

MovieREVIEW The Order of Myths Directed by Margaret Brown U.S. 2008, 93 min., Unrated In “The Order of Myths,” a documentary directed by Margaret Brown, we learn that in 1981, 19-year-old Black youth Michael Donald was...