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Rinku Sen discusses racial justice

September 30, 2010 By Pepe Lozano

"The biggest and overarching question today is how we move forward with a modern racial justice agenda," said Rinku Sen, president and executive director of the Applied Research Center.

Avondale shipyard workers hold save jobs rally

September 29, 2010 By John Wojcik

When Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast region five years ago many of the workers at the Avondale shipyard near New Orleans stayed behind when the area was evacuated.

Facing Race conference highlights hope, vision and change

September 29, 2010 By Pepe Lozano

More than 1,000 racial justice activists, educators and journalists convenedin Chicago Sept. 23-25 at the McCormick Hyatt Regency during the Applied Research Center's 2010 Facing Race national conference.

Emil Shaw, lifelong fighter for justice

September 28, 2010 By Special to People’s World

Emil Shaw, who fled Nazi Austria with his family at the age of nine, and became a lifelong social justice activist, died Sept. 12, 2010, in Albuquerque, N.M.

Trumka, panel debate working-class anger and elections

September 28, 2010 By Dan Margolis

"There is a class war going on in this country," AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said during a September 24 panel discussion at the Cooper Union, "and my class is losing. We've got to turn that around."