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Robey Theatre Company celebrates with Paul Robeson Theatre Festival

August 5, 2014 By Ed Rampell

The two-day Festival celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Robey Theatre Company, dedicated to developing "innovative new plays written about the Black experience."

Nurses to strike this week at Bay Area hospitals

August 5, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Concerns about safe staffing levels are one cause of the planned strikes: RNs are unable to take meal and rest breaks without leaving patients with inadequate staffing care

Retirees fight GOP vouchers as Medicare and Medicaid turn 49

August 1, 2014 By Joelle Fishman

ARA spearheaded protests at offices of Republicanz in Congress who want to turn Medicare into a voucher program and increase the eligibility age.

Today in labor history: Medicare and Medicaid established

July 30, 2014 By Special to People’s World

The ongoing fight to protect Medicare and Medicaid today from right-wing "reforms" is in sharp contrast to the victory of July 30, 1965.

Thousands of Israelis protest Gaza war in Tel-Aviv

July 29, 2014 By Combined Sources

Some 7,000 Israelis protested the war in Gaza under the banner: "No more deaths - Israeli-Palestinian peace, now," the largest protest against the Israeli military operation in Gaza thus far.