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Rally urges city to keep mental health clinics open

August 28, 2009

CHICAGO – After dozens of mental health patients and community activists led a rally here, August 27, at City Hall to keep five public mental health clinics open, a top city health official said it has...

Labor journalists to look behind the scenes before G-20

August 28, 2009 By Joint Party Statement

Two weeks before the G-20 summit opens in Pittsburgh to discuss the global economic crisis, labor journalists from across the country will be in the Steel City to document what’s really going on with workers without...

‘Make Sen. Kennedy’s health care dream America’s reality’

August 27, 2009

The labor movement and other mass organizations of the people unleashed a torrent of tributes to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, hailing him as a “hero” who fought to the final hours of his life for civil...

Reports show drinking water contaminated by herbicide

August 27, 2009 By Susan Webb

U.S. drinking water is widely contaminated by atrazine, a weed-killer that disrupts hormones in animals and is considered dangerous for pregnant women, according to a new report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Pioneering lawyer Doris Brin Walker dies at 90

August 27, 2009 By Special to People’s World

SAN FRANCISCO — Doris Brin Walker Roberson, a pioneering attorney and lifelong member of the Communist Party USA, who helped win victories in many of the 20th century’s most important civil liberties and civil rights cases,...