Dan Margolis
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dan Margolis
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U.S.
NYC students on Facebook, in the street over MTA cuts
January 8, 2010Public high school students, as well as teachers and parents, are organizing in new ways against a proposalto take away free-and reduced-price Metrocards currently issued to students.
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U.S.
NYC transit cuts: byproduct of giveaways to the rich
December 16, 2009Once again, city straphangers are being threatened by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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U.S.
NY rally highlights health care’s human face
December 10, 2009Eric de la Cruz wasn't poor and just over five years ago, after visiting several doctors, Eric was told that he had a serious heart ailment that was curable by a transplant.
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Opinion
Rock and roll, the BBC and dictatorship: a movie review
November 19, 2009Governments, especially repressive ones that are worried about their people getting out of hand, tend to repress art, especially that which may be considered "subversive."
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Labor
Workers in U.S. most dangerous industry demand protection
November 16, 2009He's had a gun put up to his head during a robbery. He's been assaulted with a crowbar, and had every window in his car broken. He's had a jagged beer bottle shoved into his neck.
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U.S.
NYC council elections: some defeats, some historic victories
November 12, 2009New Yorkers elected a new city council November 3, with some remarkable, and contradictory, results.
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U.S.
New York state budget: the money is there, if you look for it
November 10, 2009Yesterday, Gov. David Paterson made a speech before an extraordinary joint session of the State Senate and Assembly, pushing the legislative bodies to accept his plan to alleviate the state's more than $3.2 billion deficit for...
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U.S.
In Thompson’s defeat, seeds of future victory
November 6, 2009It would be a mistake to classify Bloomberg's November 4 mayoral reelection win as anything but a defeat for the working people of New York City
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