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“Miral”: controversial film paints Middle East mirage

April 5, 2011 By Eric A. Gordon And Dale Greenfield

Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel's latest venture onto the screen is a controversial adaptation of Rula Jebreal's novelistic memoir of her childhood and youth beginning just around the time of the Nakba, otherwise known as Israel's...

“Have you left no sense of decency?”

March 29, 2011 By Norman Markowitz

In the midst of the battle in Wisconsin, the Republican Party has revived McCarthyism to attack William Cronon, a distinguished professor of history at the University of Wisconsin.

New Yorkers keep Triangle fire legacy alive

March 25, 2011 By Gabe Falsetta And Teresa Albano

NEW YORK (March 25) - Thousands of New Yorkers marked the 100th anniversary of the worst industrial accident in city history - the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist fire - with a ceremony at the site where 146...

Maine’s governor assaults the dignity of working people

March 25, 2011 By Sam Webb

Having been raised in Maine, son of a lineman and a mother and stepmother who were state workers, I am infuriated that the Republican governor there has ordered the removal of mural that depicts the role...

Triangle fire: then and now

March 24, 2011 By Gabe Falsetta

While walking through the Evergreen Cemetery recently, located in Ridgewood Brooklyn, I came across a section dedicated to eight unidentified young women who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire on March 25, 1911.