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“Green Grow the Lilacs”: Summer of the “Okies”

July 24, 2015 By Ed Rampell

WGTB is presenting Lynn Riggs' 1931 classic Green Grow the Lilacs, wherein two of the townsfolk identify themselves as being one quarter Native.

Miners and farmers challenge Mexico’s copper giant

April 16, 2015 By David Bacon

"The government and Grupo Mexico are making history but backwards, taking away the right to strike and the right to industrial safety."

Today in history: John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” is published

April 14, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Millions who have never read the book have seen the film version starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford.

American Grace

November 26, 2014 By Rick Nagin

"Remember those who grew this food, who picked and packed, who shipped and sold..."

Co-op banks to invest in worker-owned U.S. businesses

September 17, 2013 By Special to People’s World

The world's largest industrial, worker-owned and run cooperative, Spanish-based Mondragon and its bank, Laboral Kutxa, agreed to partner with U.S. based National Cooperative Bank to invest in U.S. cooperative businesses.