Obituary – Page 43 – People's World

Leonard Weinglass, defender of civil rights, dies

March 29, 2011 By Emile Schepers

All lovers of human and civil rights were saddened last week to hear of the passing of the outstanding attorney Leonard Weinglass, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer on March 23.

Labor stalwart Irene Hull dies at 98

March 24, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

Irene Hull, a beloved "tiny dynamo" fighter for trade union rights, world peace, equality, and socialism died on the first day of spring, March 20 in Seattle.

In Mexico, world loses giants for justice

February 1, 2011 By Emile Schepers

Two heavy blows in one week and a day! First, journalist, poet, commentator, lifelong post-beat Beatnik and activist for hopeless causes Johnny Ross, 72, died of liver cancer on the shores of Lake Patzcuaro in western...

Hundreds remember ReeAnne Halonen, 1943-2010

November 18, 2010 By Special to People’s World

ReeAnne Halonen got her last wish. A Dixieland band on Nov. 14 led family and friends with trumpet and trombone blaring in a funeral procession up the street to a park two blocks from her home.

Emil Shaw, lifelong fighter for justice

September 28, 2010 By Special to People’s World

Emil Shaw, who fled Nazi Austria with his family at the age of nine, and became a lifelong social justice activist, died Sept. 12, 2010, in Albuquerque, N.M.