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Amistad Awards show what solidarity looks like

December 11, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Honorees and attendees alike showed what solidarity looks like at the 2014 People's World Amistad Awards, "People & Nature before Profits."

SOA Watch protest links immigration with foreign policy

December 2, 2014 By Lisa Bergmann

Pinochet's army in Chile, generals who fueled El Salvador's civil war and murderous paramilitaries in Colombia's drug war have all been trained at the SOA.

Black Friday Walmart strikes biggest ever (with video)

December 2, 2014 By Combined Sources

Walmart employees' fight for justice and an end to retaliation reached a new level on Friday, with an estimated 1,600 actions and strikes.

Turning Ferguson outrage into united action for justice

November 25, 2014 By PW Editorial

Civil rights groups call for a completion of the Justice Department's investigation, and the NAACP calls for a "Journey for Justice" from Ferguson to Jefferson City.

AMC Loews theatre didn’t pay janitors for months

November 18, 2014 By Rich Rogers And Darlene Lombos

Six janitors contracted to work at the theater hadn't been paid for their work in months; when they finally spoke up, the contracting company fired them all.