Ben Sears

Ben Sears is a retired teacher and AFT member in Philadelphia. He is the author, as John Bennett Sears, of the book "The Electrical Unions and the Cold War" (International Publishers 2019).

LATEST ARTICLES BY Ben Sears

U.S.

Philly to CIGNA, Congress: “Health care now!”
September 26, 2009 By Ben Sears
PHILADELPHIA — Arlene Holt Baker, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO, speaking to a dense crowd of over 800 gathered on the north side of City Hall here, placed the importance of the health care struggle...
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U.S.

Hundreds protest Philadelphia Army Experience Center
September 15, 2009 By Ben Sears
PHILADELPHIA -- Carrying banners and chanting “Shut it down!” and “War is not a game!” close to 300 demonstrators marched into the Franklin Mills Mall here to protest the continued operation of the Army Experience Center....
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U.S.

Philadelphians demand health care for all
September 12, 2009 By Ben Sears
PHILADELPHIA - Dr. Valerie Armstead does not like having “to spend more time fighting with insurance companies” than she does caring for her patients at Jefferson Hospital. “We need a public option now,” she told a...
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Labor

Penn. labor calls for election unity
April 11, 2008 By Ben Sears

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U.S.

Pennsylvanians press for minimum wage increase
January 27, 2006 By Ben Sears
The signs filling the Capitol Rotunda here told the story: “We Want Fair Wages,” “Help the Working Poor,” and “Vote Now!” For the third time in seven months a broad coalition of labor, community and religious...
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