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New Yorkers fight City Hall on taxes

March 7, 2009 By Dan Margolis

NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of people— unionists, community members, religious leaders and elected officials—came out here, March 5, at City Hall and in cities across the state to demand a fair budget for working...

Passing EFCA is single most important thing for worker safety

February 24, 2009 By Denis Hughes

The first and foremost thing workers can do to protect their safety and health is to join a union. Without a union to protect them, rights to safe and healthful working conditions are a legal abstraction.

Jesús Colón: A Puerto Rican in New York

June 16, 2006 By Jesús Colón

Two excerpts from “A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches” by acclaimed author, newspaperman, activist, and communist Jesús Colón (1901-1974).

Dont worry, we’ll raise the money

October 28, 2005

When author and activist Jesús Colón wrote his book “A Puerto Rican in New York,” he told a story about one of his nightmares. He dreamed he read a notice in bold type boxed in the...