National – Page 479 – People's World

Climate change takes center stage

November 3, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

Climate change topped headlines in Washington and around the world this week.

Cleveland council race features unique candidate

November 3, 2009 By Teresa Albano

CLEVELAND - Volunteers are going house to house in this hard-hit city's West Side, getting out the vote for a candidate who they believe will "shake things up" and bring change to a neighborhood pockmarked with...

Pelosi announces the House health plan

October 29, 2009 By John Wojcik

After months of struggle by a growing movement outside and inside the halls of Congress, House Democrats released a health care reform plan.

Labor hits union busting by immigration agency

October 29, 2009 By Emile Schepers

An important report by the AFL-CIO, American Rights at Work and the National Employment Law Project paints a shocking picture of how, under the Bush administration, ICE, (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) ran roughshod over the rights...

New Yorkers protest education cuts

October 29, 2009 By Dan Margolis

Teachers, students and others are horrified at the prospect of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of mid-year budget cuts to public education - and they're fighting back.