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Activists eye anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban Five

September 8, 2014 By Emile Schepers

Organizations and activists who have been fighting for freedom for the Cuban Five will descend on Washington D.C. during the week starting Sept. 11, for a series of political actions.

Today in labor history: Cherokee Nation begins Trail of Tears

June 17, 2014 By Special to People’s World

It is estimated that nearly one third - ten to 30 percent - died in the course of U.S. government's ethnic cleansing.

Today in labor history: Tule Lake internment camp opens

May 27, 2014 By Combined Sources

Tule Lake was the largest and most conflict-ridden of the ten War Relocation Authority camps used to carry out the government's system of exclusion and detention of persons of Japanese descent.

Demand investigation of murder of progressive Cuban-American in 1978

May 8, 2014 By Emile Schepers

Demands are being raised for a government investigation of the murder of a progressive young Cuban immigrant in Puerto Rico on April 28, 1979.

Today in labor history: Denmark Vesey arrested for slave revolt

June 18, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On June 18, 1822, slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey, Peter Poyas and others were arrested in South Carolina. Vesey was hailed as a hero by abolitionists during the Civil War, including Frederick Douglass.