Culture
Standing up: a poem for the picket lines
August 18, 2011This poem was inspired by the just-concluded United Steelworkers convention.
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What lessons learned in “Rise of the Apes”?
August 17, 2011The film makes you wonder how far humans have come, but it also asks how far we have to go.
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Trumpet-makers on strike get a brass band boost
August 17, 2011Facing cuts in wages and health care as well as total elimination of their pensions, workers at the highly profitable Conn-Selmer plant went on strike.
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Right-wing music fest gets punked by anti-racists with Trojan Ts
August 16, 2011Hundreds of right-wing neo-Nazis and fascists got a big surprise when they went home and washed their new T-shirts from a German right-wing music festival: a message of hope and tolerance.
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Cuban film “Habanastation” wins top film festival award
August 11, 2011"Habanastation" is the rare Cuban film that shows the realities of the Cuban educational system and the excitement in Revolution Square during May Day.
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